Bat Cupcakes for Halloween

I bought from the local store these plastic bats. I took out their elastic and stood each one on a cupcake with a cocktail stick. I thought they looked quite effective and children could have some fun with the bats after eating the cupcake. The cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes filled with raspberry jam and topped with vanilla butter cream.

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Witches Brew Cupcake

These are the Halloween cupcakes all together. The one below is a gruesome witches brew with the plastic glow in the dark fingers, sweets made to look like eye balls and those ready made eye ball chocolates. Hope these have given you some ideas for treats at Halloween. I am sure these would inspire kids to make some fun cakes as well. Get some tubes of ready made icing for ease.

Witches Brew Cupcake

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Sticky Fingers Glow in the Dark Cupcake

This cupcake is made in the same way as the 3D Dracula Glow in the Dark Cupcake but it has a mouth made from icing to act as the glue and sweets cut to points to be teeth. The ears of the monster are made from Glow in the Dark Fingers, so after you have eaten the cake you can wear the glow in the dark fingers on Halloween
A wedge cut out of the cake to make the mouth. It is then glued together with icing.

The completed Sticky Fingers Glow in the Dark Monster Cupcake. I think kids would love to make these cupcake heads and decorate with objects and ghoulish sweet treats for Halloween. Make a batch of coloured cupcakes. Get tubes of writing icing, lots of ghoulish things and let them have a go, or just have fun yourself. I certainly did.

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Punk Glow in the Dark Halloween Cupcake

In my local store I found a set of glow in the dark fangs, Dracula style which I bought because I was sure there was a Halloween cupcake to made from them.

I took two cupcakes that had flat tops and that were of similar size. I cut out a wedge from the top cupcake to make a space for the fangs of Dracula.

I used ready made writing icing to make a black line on which to secure the top cupcake.

I put the top cupcake back on to the cake.
I then put the fangs into the wedge shaped gap and did a bit of icing around it.

I gave the Dracula Punk Monster two large eyes and I used the sponge wedge that I had cut out to make a Punk hair style. It was secured with icing and black spikes added. I used writing icing to add detail to the Halloween cupcake. A green jelly bean made a great tongue.

It will now glow in the dark in a black spooky room. Kids can use the fangs after enjoying eating the cake.

I am sure kids would adore making these cakes and they could do all sorts of their own variations .

TESCO in the UK have the fangs for 6 pence a set. I got mine in the petrol station shop.

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Eye Ball Cupcake

For this cupcake I decorated the cupcake with a sweet, silver balls and all the rest is done with ready made writing icing that you can buy in tubes. I like the effect and it reminds me of the eyes in Ancient Egyptian Art which are always so mysterious. I went to Egypt last spring to see all the ancient culture and the glass eyes that are in the sculptures that glow in the dark are so spooky.
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Halloween Cupcakes. Spider Web Cupcake

The Halloween Season is coming around again. So I decided to make a batch of vanilla cupcakes ready to be decorated in lots of different ways for the 31st of October. I followed the recipe below but as you can see I have added some red colouring to some cakes and some black swirls to a few others so I can use these in the design ideas.

This is the recipe for basic Vanilla cupcakes which make about 9 large size or 14 fairy cake size
Ingredients
4 oz--110 gm--1/2 cup sugar
4 oz--110 gm--1/2 cup unsalted butter or margarine
4 oz--110 gm--1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
2 eggs
The seeds from 1 vanilla pod or 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 tablespoon of milk

Method
Cream the butter and sugar
Add the eggs one at a time and mix in well.
Add the vanilla essence and milk
Sieve in the flour and baking powder
Mix gently together
Put into cupcake cases
Bake at gas 5, 375F, 190C for 20 minutes with large cases or 12 to 14 minutes for small ones
Cool
Add colouring at the end of the mixing such as red, yellow, black or orange.


The completed cupcakes ready to be decorated.

I took one cupcake which had been coloured red and used writing icing to create a spider web. I added silver balls to give the effect of water on a web or dew on a web.
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HALLOWEEN EYEBALLS

Halloween Eye Ball Cupcakes
A selection of crazy cupcakes using plain white icing topped off with wine gums, smarties and other sweets cut up to make the designs. Look uggghh taste great. Kids and husbands will love this. Mine did, the husband that is.

Mr Eyeball

The Green Eye Hulk
Wine Ball
Blood Shot
Klimt Eye
Green Goddess
These are ideas that kids will love to make and eat. The more outrageous their ideas the better.

Variations

Colour the icing, add flavours to the icing, use different sweets, nuts and dried fruits to make the eye designs.

Enjoy

HALLOWEEN CUPCAKES

HALLOWEEN CRAZY CUPCAKES

These crazy cupcake ideas are ideal to use as Trick or Treats on Halloween.

METHOD
1. Make the basic cupcakes using Recipe 1,2,3 or 4. Double or treble the quantities to get 30 or 45 cupcakes

2. Remove the cupcakes and allow to cool

DECORATION

INGREDIENTS

Icing sugar, food colourings, icing tubes, warm water

EQUIPMENT

Mixing bowls-one for each colour of icing, flexible knife

METHOD

1. Place the required amount of icing sugar in a bowl, gradually add warm water and mix with the flexible knife or a spoon. It is a good idea to read the instructions for your particular type on the packaging.

2. Add colouring to the icing sugar until you get the desired strength. I mix colours together to create different shades. I made 3 colours white, yellow and orange .

These are the type of results. Let the icing sugar dry. These are the type of tubes with ready made colour that you can use.
These are some of the types of decoration you can do.

Halloween as a festival started in Ireland. It was a pagan festival to celebrate the harvest and originated with the Celtic people. The tradition was taken to North America in the nineteenth century with the settlers who emigrated to the continent. Most Western countries have adopted this festival and children love to go out dressed up as ghouls and monsters to do trick or treat. The word comes from All-hallow-even because it is the evening before the All Hallows Day which is also called All Saints' Day. It is often associated with the occult and in Mexico with the Day of the Dead.