Spooky Halloween Cupcake Recipes

• Serves: Standard package should yield 12 cupcakes
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: Approx. 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 pkg. of yellow cake mix
• 1 container of vanilla frosting
• 1 tube of black decorating gel
• red and yellow icing colors

Instructions

Create orange frosting by adding the yellow icing coloring to the red a little at a time until it turns orange. Add the orange icing color mixture to the white frosting a little at a time with a toothpick until it reaches the desired shade. Let cupcakes cool then frost with orange frosting. To finish, pipe on the pumpkin's eyes, nose and mouth with the black gel.

• Serves: Standard Package yields 12 - 18 cupcakes
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: 40 minutes (read package insert)

Ingredients

• Chocolate cake mix
• Candy pumpkins
• green frosting (white frosting colored with green icing color)
• Ghost cake decorations
• Chocolate Frosting

Instructions

Follow the directions on the box for making cupcakes. Let the cupcakes cool, then frost with chocolate frosting. Place a candy pumpkin on each cupcake and insert a plastic cake decorating ghost on the cupcake behind the pumpkin. For more detail, you can create vines and leaves by piping on green frosting (created by coloring white frosting with green icing color).

• Serves: Makes 12-18 Cupcakes, depending on package
• Prep Time: 15 min
• Total Time: 45 min (depending on package)

Ingredients

• 1 pkg. of yellow cake mix
• 1 container of vanilla frosting
• black liquorice shoestrings
• 1 chocolate ice cream cone
• black decorating gel
• 1 small marshmallow
• green icing color

Instructions

• Serves: Makes 24 cupcakes.
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Total Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 pkg. (18.25 oz.) of any flavor cake mix
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/3 cups water
• 1/2 cup of oil
• 1 1/2 cans (16 oz. each) vanilla frosting
• blue
• red
• and yellow icing colors
• 24 marshmallows (2/3 bag)
• 1 tube black decorating icing fitted with a writing tip
• 48 small gumdrops
• 24 large green gumdrops

Instructions

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare, bake, and cool cupcakes according to package directions. Tint 1 can of frosting a light purple. Frost cupcakes.

Tint remaining 1/2 can frosting yellow-green. Warm frosting in microwave 10 to 20 seconds to thin. With a fork, dip 1 marshmallow at a time into frosting to coat; let excess drip off. Place on cupcake (toward an edge).

Repeat with remaining marshmallows and cupcakes.

Draw faces with the decorative icing :
TIPS:
Eyes - draw on two dots for eyes.
Eyebrows - Make one line for eyebrows. Follow the shape of the eyes, indenting the line in the center between the eyes.
Hair - Fill in the top of the marshmallow, and make squiggly lines below the top edge all the way around.
Scar/Mouth - Make a scar for a mouth. Draw a short, straight line where the mouth should be and make shorter lines across it for the stitches.

Place 1 small gumdrop on the side of each marshmallow at the base for bolts.

To make arms, cut each green gumdrop into 2 rectangles and place on cupcake (cut side down). Place them in front of marshmallow straight out like arms are outstretched.

Bake time: 25 minutes.

• Serves: Package should yield 12-18 cupcakes
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: 40 minutes (depending on package)

Ingredients

• 1 pkg. of chocolate cake mix
• 1 container of vanilla frosting
• 1 tube of black decorating gel

Instructions

Cook cupcakes according to package directions. Let cupcakes cool then frost with vanilla frosting. Pipe gel onto cupcakes in a spiral pattern starting from the center of the cupcake.

Drag the point of a knife across the set of circles starting from the center of the cupcake towards the edge. Repeat this process evenly around the diameter of the cupcake three more times.

Note : You can create a spider for the web by inserting thin black liquorice whips into a miniature marshmallow. Place four pieces of liquorice on each side of the marshmallow (cut the liquorice down so the legs are proportionate to the body.

• Serves: Makes 24.
• Prep Time: 40 min (incl. baking cupcakes)
• Total Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

• 24 baked cupcakes
• 24 Nutter-Butter cookies
• Chocolate frosting
• Vanilla frosting
• Tube of chocolate decorator's icing

Instructions

Coat each baked cupcake with chocolate frosting and partially insert a Nutter-Butter cookie into the top. Frost the remaining cookie with vanilla frosting. Draw a spooky expression on each ghost with the decorator's icing.

• Serves: Makes 24
• Prep Time: 40 mins (incl. baking cupcakes)
• Total Time: 1 1/2 hour

Ingredients

• 24 baked cupcakes
• 3/4 cup dry chow mein noodles
• 2 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/2 cup chopped peanuts or crispy rice cereal
• White frosting

Instructions

First, make the spiders by combining the chocolate chips and milk in a glass bowl. Microwave on high for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until
smooth. Stir in the peanuts or cereal and chow mein noodles.

Drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper. Stick on extra noodles for spider legs and chill. Frost the cupcakes white. Then top each cupcake with a
spider.