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]