Halloween Cupcakes Recipe

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting

1. Gather the ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 F. 

2. Beat the sugar, butter, and vegetable oil in the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment until creamy, about 3 minutes.

3. Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second increments (stirring after every increment) until it is completely smooth.

4. Add the chocolate and the vanilla to the sugar mixture and beat again. Add the eggs and egg yolks one at a time until just combined.

5. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. Mix the sour cream, milk, and water in a separate bowl.

6. Mix the flour and milk mixtures alternatively into the chocolate mixture until all of the ingredients are combined. Do not overmix; just add until combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula to check for pockets of flour.

7. Line two cupcake pans with cupcake liners. Alternatively, you can grease each well with cooking spray. Fill each liner 2/3 full. Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes, or until the cupcakes are cooked through and come out clean when pricked with a toothpick. 

8. Allow the cupcakes to cool slightly in the pan, remove, and place on a cooling rack to cool completely.

9. Split the frosting amongst five bowls and dye the colors you wish to use. We made green for Frankenstein’s monster, black for outlining/trimming, orange for pumpkins, and left some frosting white for mummies and decoration.

Decorate the Pumpkin Cupcakes

1. Use the large circle tip to make five curved lines to resemble the segments of a pumpkin.

2. Use the green leaf tip to make two small leaves at the top of the pumpkin.

3. Use the black to make a face for the pumpkin. Get creative and make different faces for each pumpkin if you wish.

Decorate Mummy Cupcakes

1. Use the flat/basket tip to make long flat stripes in an overlapping pattern over the top of the cupcake. Leave some blank spaces so they resemble bandages.

2. Add a dot of frosting to the back of each eye and stick them on the center of the cupcake.

Decorate Frankenstein's Monster Cupcakes

1. You can use the leaf tip or just take the tip off and pipe some of the green frosting to the top of the cupcake. Spread it out using a cake spreader.

2. Add black frosting to resemble hair at the top. Draw a squiggly mouth and stitches with the black frosting as well. Make sure to use the smallest tip possible to make the neatest lines. Add the candy eyes to the center.