Bake some boo-rific cupcakes! Use plain store bought cupcakes, your own recipe or a cupcake mix and use these tips to decorate them for your next Halloween party.
Tombstone Cupcakes
Decorate the top two-thirds of a Milano cookie too resemble a gravestone. On the front, write gravestone or Halloween sayings like “RIP” or “Happy Halloween” for a clever effect. Ice the top of the cupcakes with a thick layer of dark icing to hold the gravestones up. Sprinkle the frosting with crumbled oreos or cookie crumbs to look like dirt.
Mummified Cupcakes
Take any white icing in a flat-tipped icing piping tool and layer the frosting back and forth on the top of the cupcakes to give it a toilet-papered look. You can use black jelly beans or dark M&Ms for its eyes and strawberry licorice to act as a mouth. Pipe a few more layers of frosting around the mouth and eyes to complete the mummy look.
Witch’s Hat Cupcakes
Frost a cupcake with green or light-colored frosting. Stick in a candy corn, pointy side out. Use dark M&Ms for eyes. For the hat, put a dark colored ice cream cone on the top. Use thin licorice for a frown, eyebrows and hair. Make sure it’s all secure in the frosting by pressing it all into the frosting - especially important if you’ll be traveling with the cupcakes.
