Halloween Cupcakes

Guide Note

Halloween cupcakes are festively decorated cakes often made to resemble goblins, ghosts and other spooky Halloween characters.

Fast Facts

1. Halloween is on October 31 every year
2. Shape variations: Jack-o-Lantern, spider webs, mummies and goblins
3. Baked in individual paper cups

All Recipes suggests adding extra sugar and color to cupcakes by including orange Kool-Aid to normal cake batter while mixing the ingredients. The cupcakes come out of the oven as orange as a pumpkin.¹

Disney's website, FamilyFun.com, directs users to make ghost cupcakes by inserting an upright Nutter Butter into the top of a cupcake. Frost the cookie with white icing, and add eyes with candy or more frosting. The result should look like there is a ghost hovering over ground.²

Nick Jr.'s website posts tips to make easy spider web cupcakes. Frost cupcakes with one layer of icing. Then, pipe different colored frosting in circles on top of the first layer. Finally, pull the frosting circles away from the center until the lines look like a spider web.³