Cute and Scary Halloween Cupcakes

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Delightful (and Gruesome) Treats for All Hallow's Eve

Whether you are baking for a scout troop, class party, or a grown-up halloween party, it is easy to make delightful - and even gruesome - cupcakes to impress at Halloween. You can keep the cupcake plain and easy and decorate with an intricate cupcake wrapper, or place your intricate, show-worthy cupcake creations on a beautiful decorative cupcake holder.

And, whether or not you like to bake, if you can open a box turn on your oven, cupcakes are one of the simplest treats in the world to bake. If you are looking for great ideas for impressive Halloween cupcakes, look no further. Click on some of the books to "look inside" at the contents. Then come back here and leave a comment to let me know what YOU plan to back this Halloween!

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Top Tips for Perfect Cupcakes

from cupcakerecipes.com

  • Choose the right cupcake pan. A good pan is shiny, and heavy, and use two 12-well cupcake pans.
  • Don't overmix the batter.
  • Bring all ingredients to room temperature before mixing the cupcake batter.
  • Make it easy to remove cupcakes from pan by using a non-stick spray or cupcake liners/wrappers.
  • Bake cupcakes at the correct temperature. Be aware of uneven temperatures in your oven by using an oven thermometer.
  • Test for doneness after the minimum cooking time.
  • Cook only one pan of cupcakes at a time.

Ghoulish Goodies

A book of frightening treats by Sharon Bowers

Amazon Reviewer BermudaOnion writes, "If you're looking for some fun treats for Halloween, then Ghoulish Goodies is for you! This adorable cookbook has recipes for candies and goodies, cookies, cakes, party food, drinks and even a Halloween supper. There are darling photographs for most (but not all) of the recipes. There are some deliciously scary looking treats in here that would be great to make for the classroom!"

"If I were a cupcake,
What flavor would I be?
Chocolate or vanilla
Swirled marble maybe."
by Mary Ball

A Zombie Ate My Cupcake!

Freaky food by Lily Vanilli

This book features killer cupcakes that taste bloody good! After being banished for so long to the land of the pretty and identical, the domestic and the twee, cupcakes are biting back. Here, Lily Vanilli shows how you can take inspiration from anywhere - insects, roadkill, zombies - and recreate it in cake, but always with a delicious result. This book is an introduction to making cakes that look weird, ugly and even grotesque - but that taste divine! There are amazing materials for making edible sculptures and hundreds of things you can do with natural ingredients. Give guests a shock with revoltingly realistic Marzipan Beetles, or add a crunch to your desserts with Morbid Meringue Bones, dipped in raspberry blood sauce. Try out a black cherry Dracula's Bite red velvet cupcake with cream cheese, eat your way through heavenly Fallen Angel Cakes or go for indulgent and truly dark chocolate Devil's Delight Cupcakes. If Ozzy Osbourne made cupcakes, these are the ones he'd want to eat.

A Zombie Ate My Cupcake: 25 Deliciously Weird Cupcake Recipes

Amazon Price: $9.24 (as of 05/31/2012)Buy Now

Halloween Cupcake Inspiration

From Flickr

There are some awesome bakers out there - professional AND amateur. Here is a selection of adorable, scary, and gruesome cupcakes for Halloween, as seen on Flickr!
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Halloween Cupcake Kit

by Juan Arache

Creepy, crawly cupcakes will make your Halloween spooktacular! Learn how to bake and decorate 4 different specially-designed cupcakes to fright and delight! This Halloween Cupcake Kit includes:
- 24 colorful cupcake liners
- 24 Halloween cupcake toppers (4 designs of 6 each)
- 6 different pastry tips
- Connector
- Pastry bag
- 32-page mini-book is packed with simple decorating instructions for each design, as well as cake and frosting recipes.

Halloween Cupcake Kit

Amazon Price: $4.95 (as of 05/31/2012)Buy Now

Halloween Cupcake Liners and Wrappers

Dress you cupcakes well by using these cute, halloween cupcake liners and wrappers!
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Haloween Cupcake Decorating Kit

Comes with 24 cupcake cups (2 colors), 24 Decorative Picks (skulls, ravens, spiders, Happy Halloween).

Featured Halloween Lenses

Jack O' Lanterns, Costumes, and Treats...OH MY!

If you like Halloween even a fraction as much as I do, I think you will really enjoy the following Halloween lenses here on Squidoo!
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Spooky Guestbook Comments

Drop me a line and let me know you stopped in! Will YOU be making scary or cute cupcakes for Halloween this year?

  • NicholeB Oct 4, 2011 @ 7:15 pm | delete
    I'll probably be making them cute! :-)
  • jembie Sep 25, 2011 @ 11:07 am | delete
    These are fabulous Thanks
  • agalova Aug 28, 2011 @ 10:03 am | delete
    We are going with scary this year... unless my five year old changes her mind, that is. Cute ideas, thanks for sharing them.

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