Halloween cupcakes can be made for Halloween parties and gatherings to celebrate the holiday. They are baked similarly to traditional cupcakes and are decorated using a Halloween theme. The common Halloween colors of black and orange are generally used to color icing or frosting used to decorate the cupcakes. Many bakeries prepare cupcakes decorated in these colors throughout the Halloween holiday.

Cupcake batter can also be colored to represent the holiday using chocolate flavors or orange food coloring.http://www.learn-cake-decorating.com/color-your-cake-batter.html If orange is not available, red and yellow food coloring will create an orange color.http://www.sptimes.com/News/102401/Taste/Tricks_for_making_tre.shtml Brand name treats such as Oreo's and M&M's are also sold in orange and black making them ideal ingredients for cupcake decorations. http://dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-oreo-brownies.html Icing, frosting, candy sprinkles and colored sugar that is sold in supermarkets can be found in these colors as well.

For more detailed cupcakes, using pastry bags and decorator's tips can produce intricate designs such as spider webs. http://bakerstools.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=BAGSUsing a variety of tip designs can produce different textures and enhance the cupcake design. These tools can be purchased at local craft stores or found where cake decorating supplies are sold.

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.All Recipes: Halloween Cupcakes

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.FamilyFun.com: Creepy Cupcakes

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.Nick Jr.: Spider Web Halloween Cupcakes

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