Cupcakes have become popular treats during Halloween. They’re also fun to prepare and decorate too. Whether they’re trick-or-treating giveaways or tasty delights to munch on at a party, cupcakes make for really great treats for coming any holiday.

Nowadays, adorning cupcakes go way beyond merely putting frosting or sprinkling it with embellishments. If you want to jazz up cupcakes, perhaps this season is an opportune time for you to really use your creativity.

No Halloween celebration is ever complete without creepy flying or crawling creatures or things supernatural. These can give you a handful of quick and simple ways to give cupcake adornments that spooky touch.

The beauty of adorning spooky cupcakes is that its flavor does not really matter. You can create witchy cupcakes with any of your very favorite cookie or cake recipes. Use a mix if you like and you still get great results.

Add more burst to ordinary cupcakes with Halloween decorations that are not only yummy to eat, but are also fun to prepare. How about decorating gooey eyes to your Halloween-inspired cupcakes? There are countless possibilities that you can do with it.

To create gooey eyes for your Halloween themed cupcakes, here’s what you’ll need:

Frosting

Empty gelatin capsule

Gummy candy

Sprinkles

Powdered sugar

Prepare dust cupcakes with powdered sugar. Then draw the eyes and mouth using your choice of frosting. Make sure to frost it first to keep the gooey eyes from sticking. Cut into two equal parts the empty gelatin capsules. You can get these capsules at your local health and natural food stores or online.

To make the eyeballs: Just fill the capsules with one sprinkle or whatever idea that fits your fancy. Round sprinkles are best to get this look. Cut the gummy candy into half, arranging each on your powdered cupcake.

You can also use tapioca pearls as substitute. Now, stick the capsules onto the gummy matter. Your gooey eyes should stick onto the frosting. Decorate cupcakes with hats too. To prepare, draw a circle in the middle of a cupcake. Then cut a part of a cupcake into a deep, cone shape held at an angle.

Then, complete the circle by rotating your cupcake and taking out its center. Do the same for all other cupcakes. Scoop frosting onto the middle of each cupcake, filling the hole. Then top using a wafer cookie with a dot of frosting in its center. To make hat, reverse the cone-shaped part of your cupcake. Form eyes and nose with round sprinkles. Use grated coconut or cereal flakes to make hair as well.

You can adjust the amount of your ingredients depending on how many spooky cupcakes that you want to scarily decorate. You can even substitute other ingredients as well. The possibilities are endless!

Hallowe’en is approaching and all the youngsters are waiting to dress up like monsters, ghostly ghouls and witches. These chocolate Halloween cupcakes will be exactly the thing when it concerns satisfying those small monsters, ghostly ghouls and witches hungry stomachs. You may bake them a day earlier and store them in a cookie tin, or bake them on the same day. If your little monsters prefer to help they could be your extra hands in the kitchen. Let’s get producing these tasty chocolate cupcakes.

Ingredients

- For the cupcakes

12 paper cases

280g/10oz butter, softened

280g/10oz golden caster sugar

200g/7oz self-raising flour

1 rounded tbsp cocoa powder

6 medium eggs

- For the topping

200g/7oz butter, softened

280g/10z icing sugar, sifted

12 sugar halloween decorations

Technique

For the cupcakes

1 – Preheat oven to 190 C/Gas 5/fan oven 170 C.

2 – Line a 12-cup muffin tin with brown muffin cases.

3 – Crack the eggs into a large bowl and beat lightly with a fork

4 – Place all the other ingredients into the bowl

5 – Beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes, until light and creamy

6 – Spoon into the cases, almost filling them to the top.

7 – Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until risen and spongy.

8 – Cool on a rack.

For the topping

1 – Beat the butter and icing sugar until smooth

2 – Spread a layer of icing over each cake

3 – Then add your sugar Halloween decorations on top

Takes 45minutes, plus cooling down (unless the little ones are helping – Makes 12

Tips:

• These chocolate cupcakes are themed by applying sugar Halloween decorations. This implies that you are able to apply this simple chocolate cupcake recipe for whatever occasion you desire. Merely by adding the relevant sugar decoration will make the cupcakes appeal to any occasion.

• Try adding a few drops of flavouring to the cupcake mix, like vanilla, orange or even mint.

Happy Eating.