Decorated Halloween Cupcakes
These Halloween cupcakes feature festive designs like monsters, pumpkins, and spiders using colorful buttercream and simple decorating tools.
Equipment
- - Piping bags & tips
- Mixing bowls
- Hand or stand mixer
- - Offset spatula
- - Food coloring
Ingredients
- **Cupcakes 12 total:**
- - Use your favorite cupcake recipe vanilla, chocolate, pumpkin, etc.
- **Vanilla Buttercream:**
- - 1½ cups unsalted butter softened
- - 6 cups powdered sugar
- - 6 tbsp heavy cream or whole milk
- - 2 tsp vanilla extract
- - Pinch of salt
- **Decorations:**
- - Gel food coloring: Orange Green, Black, Purple
- - Candy eyeballs large & small
- - Mini Oreo cookies
- - Sprinkles
- - Piping bags + tips: #21 #125, #4
Instructions
- **Make Buttercream**: Beat butter, then add sugar, cream, and vanilla. Mix until fluffy. Add food coloring.
- **Decorate Monsters**:
- - Use green or purple buttercream with star tip.
- - Green: swirl + 1 large eye.
- - Purple: pipe stars + small eyes + sprinkles.
- **Decorate Jack-o'-Lanterns**:
- - Orange petal frosting lines.
- - Green stem with star tip.
- - Black face with round tip.
- **Decorate Spiders**:
- - Flat white frosting base.
- - Black web and legs.
- - Oreo spider body with candy eyes.
Notes
- Store decorated cupcakes uncovered for a few hours or refrigerate.
- Frosting darkens as it sets—colors will deepen over time.
- Frosting darkens as it sets—colors will deepen over time.