Halloween Food Ideas: Three Cute Cupcakes to Make

If you are looking for dessert ideas for your Halloween party or kids party, you don't need to go through a lot of work. What could be more popular these days than cupcakes? These three cute cupcakes are easy to make, and the kids can even help with them.

Start with cupcakes baked in liners. You can find specially decorated holiday-themed paper liners for sale in the grocery or specialty stores. You can even purchase some already made, and just do the decorations yourself, if you prefer.

1. Nummy Mummies

Use any flavor cupcake you like, and a light or cream-colored frosting. You'll need two brightly colored, small round candies for eyes, two per cake.

Spread some frosting along the top edge and a little ways down the cake. Think of this as the bandage going over the mummy's head. Leave an unfrosted area below that, just large enough for the eyes to peek out.

Add more frosting below the eyes, to cover the rest of the cake. Dip the eyes into a small amount of frosting to help them stick, then place them on the cake.

2. Vampires

Use any flavor of cupcake and a light colored frosting. You'll also need either red gel icing or frosting, plus some fruit leather, chocolate modeling clay, or a darker frosting, but that's optional. You can make the whole thing in red.

Spread frosting all over the cake. With the red icing, draw a curved line for a smile. Then make two triangles from either red icing, or cut them from fruit leather and add them to the mouth.

Use two dots of frosting, or balls of modeling chocolate for eyes. To make hair, use a narrow triangle, either cut from fruit leather, or use frosting. Have the narrow point down, towards the eyes, to look like a widow's peak.

3. Skulls

Use any flavor of cupcake, plus a light frosting. You'll also need a darker frosting or chocolate modeling clay.

Spread frosting in a skull shape. Make a figure eight shape, but keep the upper section bigger, and make the lower section with straight sides.

Using frosting or chocolate clay, make two ovals for eyes. Make two tiny ovals or lines for nostrils. And make three narrow vertical lines below that for the teeth.

There you have it. Three easy, cute Halloween cupcake decorating ideas that you don't need any fancy skills to make. They'll be a hit at your next party.

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When it Comes to a Cupcake's Decorations it All Begins With the Icing

Your Cupcake's Decorations start with the icings which come in many different types, butter-cream, flat, foam, fondants, fudge, royal icing and glazes.

Icings act as the glue for the many different ingredients you can use to decorate your cakes with today (sprinkles, nuts, pretzels, chocolate leaves, cookie crumbs to name but a few).

So, which type of icing should be used for the basis of your cupcake's decorations?

Well, there are different jobs for different icings, for your mini cakes it's best to use butter-cream, fudge, frosting or fondants.

Whichever type you decide to use, the most important thing to remember is to be patient, wait until they are completely cool before starting to decorate or you will just end up with a runny soggy mess.

You can also add another layer of flavor by spreading sugar syrup (boiled sugar, water, and flavoring e.g. citrus juice) to the top once they have cooled, this also has the added benefit of keeping them moist for longer. If you are running short of time on the day of baking, you can always use this tip to keep them moist until you have time to decorate them (should give you an extra couple of days grace).

I have just finished reading an article about Ace of cakes star Duff Goldman and his own line of products for decorating cakes.

Fondants, sprinkles, icing pouches, to the more unique tattoos and graffiti for all your decorating needs, sounds very cool!

Popped into Michael's and was happy to find, on the bakery section, that the whole range of products by Duff are available, so I will definitely be trying those out over the coming weeks.

Also watched a video tutorial recently which gave ideas for how to create spiders webs or star burst effects, using two colors of bought frosting and a couple of zip lock bags, so I jotted down the method below:

Put a cup of vanilla frosting into a zip lock bag.
Add a couple of drops of food coloring.
Put another cup of vanilla frosting into a separate zip lock bag.
Again add a few drops of a different food coloring.
On a cupcake which has been covered with a flat layer of frosting, take the zip lock bag and snip off the edge so that you can pipe onto the cupcake.
Start at the center and pipe a spiral all the way to the edge.
Grab the second zip lock bag of the contrasting color and pipe in between the first spiral, again until you reach the edge.
Take a tooth pick and starting in the center drag out to the edges, repeat all the way around.

You now have the perfect spiders web, this would be great for a Halloween holiday party.

Also works equally well as a star burst effect, if you were to use red, white and blue, for cupcake decorations for a 4Th of July party.

I'm on a journey of discovery into the wonderful world of cupcakes, decorations, ideas and designs. I'm hoping to discover easy creative methods for decorating these mouth watering treats for the everyday and special occasion moments in life.

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