I love Halloween and adore baking, so I decided to come up with a few fun decorating ideas that you can easily make! These cupcakes would be crowd pleasers at parties and a wonderful activity to do with kids.
A Coating of Cookies
First things first! You need to get together some cupcakes and frosting. I used a yellow cake recipe I found on foodnetwork and the frosting recipe off of the back of the Hershey's Dark Cocoa. I decided to use black and white polka dot wrappers to keep the Halloween feeling through-out.
Simply Ice
And then apply the crumbled oreos. I like to put the cupcake down in the crumbles and twist it gently to get every part covered. It is really easy to crumble the oreos yourself you just put the chocolate cookie part in a plastic bag, seal it, and roll over the cookies with a rolling pin. You will want to save the cream centers for the first cupcake.
Eye Popping Cupcakes
For these cupcakes you will need chocolate chips, candy corn, and the cream centers of oreos.
Press a chocolate chip into the center of the cream. Then put a dab of icing onto the cupcake to "glue" the eye into place. To finish off the look line the eye with candy corn. Now you have yourself a set of cute eyes.
Spider Toppers
For the first spiders you will need oreos, melted chocolate, and pretzel sticks.
Open up your oreo cookies and dip the end of the pretzel sticks into the chocolate. Break them in half so that the legs look proportional to the cookie.
Add some melted chocolate to the cookie and close the spider up.
Top your cupcake by adding some icing where your spider will go and place him on top, then enjoy!
Spooky Spider Cupcake
For this spider you will need melted chocolate, malt balls (or another spherical candy), and pretzel sticks. This decoration requires more care and patience.
To begin use some chocolate to attach a head. Let it set. The begin to apply pretzel stick legs slowly allowing each to set. The result is a tasty and spooking little spider atop your cupcake! Remember a little icing for "glue".
Ghastly Ghosts
For this decoration you will need white chocolate (that you will melt), wax paper or parchment and chocolate chips.
Melt your chocolate in the microwave , do this in 15 to 30 second increments. Make sure that you are stirring inbetween. Your chip will keep its shape in the microwave and fool you into thinking it is not melted, so be sure to stir! Once the chips are melted enough to stir, use a fork to spread the chocolate onto the wax paper and let the chocolate set.
Once the chocolate has set peel it off. I recommend lifting the paper and peeling away the paper. Then take two chocolate chips and dot them with some chocolate and add them to your ghost. You can just stick these ghosts into the cupcake and they will stay. Isn't he cute?
Ghoul Worthy Gravestones
You will need oreos, melted white chocolate, and toothpicks for these.
To do these gravestones simply use your toothpick to write R.I.P on the cookie with the white chocolate. Then you can let the chocolate set.
Once it is set, press the cookie into the cupcake with a little icing to keep it in place.
Now you can have some fun setting up scenes with your cupcakes, like little graveyards.
Yum!
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