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Bleeding Vampire Cupcakes
Bleeding vampire cupcakes may sound gruesome, but they are actually tasty as well as simple to make. Bake a batch of [[How to Make Vanilla Cupcakes|vanilla cupcakes. Cut a cone out of the center of the cupcakes, and filling the cut out with cherry pie filling. Trim the cut out cone to fit over the filling, and replace the cut out. Then frost the cupcake with vanilla frosting. The bleeding effect is made by streaking the frosting with red food coloring in two lines.
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Introduction
Halloween cupcakes can be as wild as your imagination. Witches, zombies, vampires, and graveyards are all typical Halloween motifs that translate well into cupcakes. -
Stenciling Cupcakes
- A quick and easy way to decorate cupcakes is to stencil a design over the top of them. To do this, all you need is frosted cupcakes, a topping and a stencil. You can also use this technique to decorate cakes, cookies and brownies.
- There are a variety of toppings you can use including:
- Colored sugar.About.com: How to Make Colored Sugar
- Colored powdered sugar.FabulousFoods.com: How to Make Tinted Sugars and Coconut (July 29, 2007)
- Colored coconut.FabulousFoods.com: How to Make Tinted Sugars and Coconut (July 29, 2007)
- Sanding sugar.MarthaStewart.com: Stenciled Halloween Cakes
- Ground ginger and confectioners' sugar.MarthaStewart.com: Stenciled Halloween Cakes
- Cocoa powder and cinnamon.Slashfood: How to Make Cupcake Stencils
- You can make your own stencils very easily. If you are interested, check out Mahalo's page on how to make printable Halloween stencils. However, cupcake and cookie stencils are fairly inexpensive and can be purchased online at any of the following locations:
- Wilton: Halloween Cupcake and Cookie Stencils
- Crate and Barrel: Halloween Cupcake Stencils
- Martha Stewart Crafts: Cupcake Stencils
- HSN.com: Cupcake and Cookie Stencils 8-pack
Faces for Vampires, Monsters and Aliens
- Making creepy faces can be a great way to decorate cupcakes for Halloween. Depending on how you make it, the faces can become vampires, monsters or aliens. Here are a few techniques you can use to give your cupcakes a spooky--but still sweet--twist.
- Eyes can be created using M&Ms, mini marshmallows or jellybeans painting with melted chocolate.MarthaStewart.com: Creepcake Cupcakes
- Cut up marshmallows for teeth.MarthaStewart.com: Creepcake Cupcakes
- Use a Jordan almond for the nose.FamilyFun.com: Halloween Recipes: V Is For Vampire Cupcake Recipe
- Make a tongue out of strawberry fruit leather.FamilyFun.com: Halloween Recipes: V Is For Vampire Cupcake Recipe
- Use black rope licorice to create hair, eyebrows and any other desired facial features.I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
Witch Cupcakes
- One of the easiest way to make a witch cupcake is to use a chocolate sugar cones on top of chocolate cupcakes. Here is how you create it:
- Frost the cupcakes with green frosting.
- Invert one chocolate sugar cone onto the top of each cupcake. You can make a brim for the hat using melted milk chocolate.I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
- Pipe the chocolate in a circle on waxed paper and place the cone on top.I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
- Seal the cone by adding more chocolate.I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
- Then place the hats into the freezer until they firm up.I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
- Eyes can be made using M&Ms or chocolate chips.MarthaStewart.com: Wicked Witch Cupcakes I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
- Use black rope licorice to add hair, eyebrows, and any other desired facial features.MarthaStewart.com: Wicked Witch Cupcakes
- Use candy corn to form a nose.I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
Spider Cupcakes
- Spider cupcakes are one of the most popular variety around Halloween. There are two methods you can use create them.
- The first method is to use the cupcake to make one large spider. Here's how you can create the various parts of the spider:
- To make the body, you can coat the cupcake with chocolate frosting or vanilla frosting tinted black. Then top it with black sanding sugar, large black gumdrops that were squeezed through a garlic press to create hair, chocolate sprinkles or leave it plain.MarthaStewart.com: Creepcake Cupcakes Betty Crocker: Scarecrow and Spider Cupcakes I Heart Cuppycakes: My Booo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes
- Eyes can be made using cinnamon candy, jelly beans or candy eyes.MarthaStewart.com: Creepcake Cupcakes Kraftfoods.com: Cool Spider Cupcakes Recipe Betty Crocker: Scarecrow and Spider Cupcakes
- Create fangs by cutting tiny cone shapes from a marshmallow or using candy corn.MarthaStewart.com: Creepcake Cupcakes Allrecipes: Spider Cupcakes
- Use pieces of black rope licorice to create the legs. You might opt to insert one end of each licorice piece into a spice drop to make feet.Wilton: Spider Cupcake
- The second method is to create a spiderweb design on the cupcake and add a smaller spider. To make the spider web design, frost the cupcakes and then either:
- Draw a design using icing.WeightWatchers.com: Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes
- Use melted chocolate chips or colored frosting to make concentric circles.NESTLE Meals.com: Cobweb Cupcakes NickJr.com: Spider Web Halloween Cupcakes Then, drag a toothpick through them starting at the center to create the design.
- To create the spider, you can purchase plastic ones or make one using frosting, gumdrops or tootsie rolls.Fun and Food Blog: Chocolate Spider Cupcakes Howstuffworks: "Spider Cupcakes" Top Party Ideas: Giant Spider Cupcake for Halloween, Bug Party, Spiderman or Fear Factor Party
- Expert Village: How to Decorate Halloween Cupcakes (Time: 1:48)
Eyeball Cupcakes
- Making an eyeball out of a cupcake is simple. Start with cupcakes frosted with white frosting.
- Use red decorating gel or white frosting tinted with red food coloring to create veins on the top of the cupcake.EveningEdge.com: Icky Eyeballs Cupcakes Epicurious.com: Eyeball Cupcakes Recipe
- Top each cupcake with some type of disk-shaped candy such as Lifesavers or fruit snacks.Epicurious.com: Eyeball Cupcakes Recipe Kraftfoods.com: "Eyeball" Cupcakes Recipe
- Add a black jelly bean or candy-coated chocolate pieces to the center for the iris.Epicurious.com: Eyeball Cupcakes Recipe Kraftfoods.com: "Eyeball" Cupcakes Recipe
Ghost Cupcakes
- Making a ghost cupcake can be as simple as frosting a cupcake white and adding a couple of candy eyes or by adding candy ghosts onto the top of each cupcake.Food Network: Ghouly Cupcakes Recipe Wilton: Gruesome Ghost Cupcakes However, if you want a more unique look, try this:
- You will need cupcakes, chocolate frosting, vanilla frosting, decorator's icing, and Nutter Butter cookies (one for each cupcake).FamilyFun.com: Halloween Recipes: Creepy Cupcakes Recipe
- Frost the cupcakes with the chocolate frosting.Recipezaar: Halloween Ghost Cupcakes Recipe
- Insert a cookie into each cupcake so it is upright.FamilyFun.com: Halloween Recipes: Creepy Cupcakes Recipe
- Frost the visible portion of the cookie with vanilla frosting.Recipezaar: Halloween Ghost Cupcakes Recipe (It may be easier if you frost the front of the cookie and draw the face before you insert it into the cupcake.)
- Use the decorator's icing to draw a face on each ghost.Recipezaar: Halloween Ghost Cupcakes Recipe
- Expert Village: How to Make Ghost Cupcakes for Halloween (Time: 2:06)
Tombstone Cupcakes
- Tombstone cupcakes are great for Halloween. Make several and they not only serve as desert but as decoration (your own graveyard!) for your home. Here's how to do it:
- To make the cupcakes with tombstones you will need:
- Chocolate-frosted cupcakes.
- Crumbs from chocolate cookies or chocolate wafers.Allrecipes: Cupcake Graveyard MarthaStewart.com: Tombstone Cupcakes
- Nutter Butter cookies, shortbread cookies, or chocolate covered graham cracker cookies to make the tombstones.Pillsbury.com: Halloween Cupcake Trio MarthaStewart.com: Tombstone Cupcakes Allrecipes: Cupcake Graveyard
- Dip or sprinkle the cookie crumbs onto each cupcake (to make it look like dirt).Pillsbury.com: Halloween Cupcake Trio
- Write epitaphs (such as R.I.P.) on the end of each cookie using decorating gel or frosting.Allrecipes: Cupcake Graveyard
- Stick one cookie into each cupcake.
- Add a candy corn pumpkin or half of a gummi worm next to the tombstone if desired.Pillsbury.com: Halloween Cupcake Trio MarthaStewart.com: Tombstone Cupcakes
Conclusion
- Now that you've made your Halloween cupcakes, you might want to check out some of Mahalo's other pages on Halloween food such as how to cook pumpkin seeds, how to make delicious caramel apples and how to make popcorn balls. You might also be interested in how to make your own Halloween costumes, how to plan a kids' Halloween party, how to plan a killer Halloween party, how to carve a killer pumpkin or how to make Halloween props.
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