Decorated Halloween Cupcakes
Fun and festive Halloween cupcakes decorated as monsters, pumpkins, and spiders with buttercream and simple tools.
Equipment
- - Mixer
- - Piping bags & tips
- - Bowls for coloring frosting
- Spatula
Ingredients
- ### Cupcakes
- - 12 cooled cupcakes vanilla, pumpkin, or chocolate
- ### Vanilla Buttercream
- - 1½ cups unsalted butter softened
- - 6 cups confectioners’ sugar
- - 6 tbsp heavy cream or milk
- - 2 tsp vanilla extract
- - Pinch of salt
- ### Food Coloring
- - Orange Leaf Green, Black, Fuchsia + Violet
- ### Decorations
- - Candy eyeballs
- - Mini Oreos
- - Halloween sprinkles
- ### Tools
- - Piping bags
- - Wilton #21 star tip
- - Wilton #125 petal tip
- - Wilton #4 round tip
- - Couplers optional
Instructions
- Beat butter until creamy. Add sugar, cream, vanilla, and salt. Beat until fluffy.
- Divide and tint frosting in desired colors.
- Pipe green swirl and add a large candy eye (Monster).
- Pipe purple stars and add small eyes + sprinkles (Monster).
- Use petal tip to pipe orange pumpkin lines. Add green stem and black face (Pumpkin).
- Frost white, add black web lines, Oreo half, eyes, and legs (Spider).
Notes
- Use gel food coloring for best results.
- Avoid decorating too far ahead to keep eyes from running.
- Use couplers if switching tips between colors.
- Avoid decorating too far ahead to keep eyes from running.
- Use couplers if switching tips between colors.