Halloween Cupcakes and Decorating IdeasHalloween is the time to use your imagination to create some really unique Halloween cupcakes. Halloween let's the kid in us run wild through our decorating ideas, for instance, dressing up for trick or treat, planning and decorating for Halloween parties or just baking really spectacular scary cupcakes. It seems as if Halloween has no age limit! Cupcake decorating ideas can be a lot of fun for the entire family,and a big success at school functions, birthdays,etc. Shall we get started on our cupcake decorating ideas?
This is a plain chocolate cupcake designed to look like a spider with red licorice for the legs,jelly beans for the eyes and crushed Oreo cookie sprinkled on the top. It doesn't get any easier than that!
This pumpkin cupcake is made with a large cupcake pan which you can find in our Wilton cake supplies section. This large Halloween cupcake was made for a daycare Halloween party. I will show you how to use your imagination for beautiful halloween cupcakes you can take for office parties. Sometimes seeing photo's of cupcakes will lead your mind into a new direction for new ideas! Blood,Graveyard,Bats,Witches,Ghost,Ghouls,Spiders,Eyes and Pumpkins are more of the traditional cupcakes at Halloween.
Let me show and tell you how to make these 24 delicious spooky cupcakes in less than an hour. Cupcakes 1 container (16 oz) vanilla frosting 1/4 teaspoon orange concentrated paste food color 24 unfrosted cupcakes (purchased or baked from a mix) Spider Webs 1 tube (0.68 oz) black decorating gel (not food color) 8 clean plastic spider finger rings Eyeballs 2 tablespoons vanilla frosting (from 16-oz container) 8 candy-coated chocolate pieces 1 tube (0.68 oz) black decorating gel (not food color) 1 tube (0.68 oz) red decorating gel (not food color) Graves 1 tube (0.68 oz) black decorating gel (not food color) 8 oval creme-filled peanut butter sandwich cookies 1/4 cup chocolate cookie crumbs 8 candy pumpkins
DIRECTIONS 1. Place 3 tablespoons of the frosting in small bowl; set aside. Stir orange food color into remaining frosting in container until well blended and no streaks remain. Frost cupcakes. 2. To make Spider Web Cupcakes, use black decorating gel to draw spiral covering on top of each frosted cupcake. Drag toothpick through spiral from center out, creating a web. Press 1 spider ring onto each "web." 3. To make Eyeball Cupcakes, drop 1/2 teaspoon vanilla frosting from small bowl onto each frosted cupcake. Lightly press 1 candy-coated chocolate piece in center of each. Use black decorating gel for pupil and red decorating gel to draw red squiggly veins radiating around edge of white frosting. 4. To make Grave Cupcakes, write "RIP" on one end of each cookie using black decorating gel. Press cookies into cupcakes to form "gravestones." Sprinkle cookie crumbs around each "gravestone"; add candy pumpkin to one side.
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