Halloween is the BEST. Besides the fact that an entire new aisle is now dedicated to candy in the grocery store, even better is that I can walk out of the store with 10 different bags and no one will judge me. Because the old lady next to me just walked out with 12.
I seriously had SO much fun trying to find cute candy decor for these little spooky cupcakes! Once a month I come up with easy festive recipes for a recipe board I have set up at a doctor’s office – and this was October’s Halloween treat. I love any and every excuse to go all Martha Stewart on some cupcakes!
So without further ado… please meet my little spooky friends… and enjoy some eye candy :)
Frankenstein!
Not really sure who he is. But I ate all the candy corn off his head.
Cute witch
Friendly Spider
And my favorite – the mummy!
So not only are these cupcakes darling – these are so easy to do. For real guys! Especially the mummy. Here’s some step by step intructions below.
1. Using black icing, draw a half oval over the top half of the cupcake and fill in.
2. Using a flat tipped pastry tip carefully trace lines of frosting from the left side to the right side of the cupcake. Beginning at the very top of the head.
3. Add a couple cute little candy eyes (which you can also find at most hobby stores in the baking section) and you’re done!
So if you’re in a pinch for time – or have to make 30 + cupcakes for your kid’s class party, there’s no shame in a boxed cupcake mix and can of frosting! Especially if you can get your hands on a whole wheat version or lower cal mix from Whole Foods.
But I do want to encourage you to make your own because this way you can control the amount of sugar, fat, and calories you’re feeding your little ones! The cupcake recipe I used is a lightened up version of a chocolate cupcake and vegan frosting. The whole cupcake is dairy free :)
Don’t like chocolate cupcakes?
Try these same designs with my Vegan Vanilla Cupcake recipe or this Lighter Vanilla Cupcake recipe (this is my mom’s very favorite cupcake recipe).
Chocolate Cupcakes:
Yields 16 cupcakes
Ingredients:
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup egg substitute
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup plain soy yogurt
- candy corn
- sour straws
- black licorice
- black icing
- gum drops
Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Beat first 4 ingredients in a large bowl at medium speed until well blended (about 2 minutes).
- Whisk together flour and next 5 ingredients (through 1/4 teaspoon salt) until combined. Stir flour mixture into sugar mixture alternately with soy yogurt, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix after each addition just until blended.
- Place 16 paper muffin cup liners in muffin cups; spoon about 2 1/2 tablespoons batter into each cup. Bake at 350° for 18 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out with moist crumbs attached (do not overbake). Remove cupcakes from pans; cool on a wire rack. Frost with Vanilla Frosting recipe below and decorate with candy!
Vegan Creamy Vanilla Frosting
This recipe makes a lot of frosting – enough to frost at least 30 cupcakes. The cooking light cupcake recipe that I used only makes 16 cupcakes, so feel free to cut this frosting recipe in half!
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup vegan butter (Earth Balance)
- 1/2 cup nonhydrogenated vegetable shortening
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup plain soy milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Preparation:
- Cream butter and shortening on medium-high speed until smooth.
- Gradually add powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until smooth. Add soy milk and vanilla and continue to blend until smooth.
- Add additional powdered sugar to taste and until desired consistency.
Chocolate Cupcake recipe is slightly adapted from Cooking Light Magazine, love this recipe from them!
Cupcake designs inspired by the wonderful world wide web, Pinterest, and Better Holmes and Gardens!
So cute!!!!!!!! Love it!
Arantha
These are adorable! Love the mummy!
The mummy ones are my favorite. I need to get a flat tip!
so fun! your mummy ones are really cute!
these are so much fun!! love!
Awwww aren’t these the scariest and most delicious cupcakes ever :)
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I want to come trick or treat at your house! Such cute cupcakes, specially the Mummy:) Lightened up cupcakes and vegan are a real Halloween treat!
Oh my gosh, these are the cutest things ever. I wouldn’t even wanna eat them cause they look so cute… errr scary ;)
OMG, these are adorable! i LOVE these!!! I am sooo making these for my daughter’s Kinder class. I was going to do something else but after seeing these, it’s DONE. Wow, love it! :)
Thanks Alice!! Hope your daughter had a fun Halloween! The mummy decor is surprisingly pretty quick to make too if you’re trying to do a big batch :) Hope you liked these!!
OMG. these are sooo soo cute and scary and i want so many of them!
Haha these are so cute!
Lovelovelove these! So adorable I can’t stand it!
So creative! I love the spider cupcake and the use of the napkin for legs!
Kristina, these are the cutest cupcakes EVER! Is it bad that I want to take a bite out of the mummy?
hahah no. not at all. That was my favorite bc it had the most frosting :)
These are so cute. I am not creative at all….I am always so impressed with what others come up with for the holidays.
These are toooooooooo cute! Love it. You’re so adorable and creative :-)
LOVE,,,LOVE your hedgehog candy corn version…as well as the mummy!…Shamelessly copying your creative ideas and rushing out to buy the ingredients…Halloween heaven!…Thanks for the share!
Haha thanks Donna!! Hope you had fun trying these :) ! Happy belated Halloween!!
What a great idea for Halloween – the mummy is my favorite too :)
Such cute cupcakes!!!!
These cupcakes are ADORABLE. I am in love with that little mummy. The dairy free recipe is great too.
Love these Kristina, I love those candy eyes on the mummies too. Loving the spider too. The one with the candy corn all over his head looks like a mutant hedgehog. Or at least it does ‘to me’.
They’re all cute. :)
Thanks Lisa :) I had SO much fun making these. My whole kitchen counter was just covered in candy and food coloring. I’m going to try and make some Thanksgiving versions next week too!
Every single one of these cupcakes is so darn perfect! I love them, absolutely adorable and so clever. I added them to my Halloween dessert recipe round up here: http://www.grandbaby-cakes.com/2012/10/halloween-everywhere.html
Thanks so much for including m Jocelyn! Off to check out your round up right now :)
Awwww, these are all just so stinking cute!