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Halloween cupcakes

Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 22

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Beater

Ingredients
  

Main ingredients

  • 200 g of softened butter
  • 200 g of melted chocolate
  • 300 g of golden caster sugar
  • 250 g of raising flour
  • 200 ml of milk
  • 50 g of cocoa powder
  • ¼ tsp of baking powder mixed with 100 ml of fresh boiling water
  • 1-2 tsp food coloring (black)
  • 2 eggs

Buttercream ingredients

  • 300 g of softened unsalted butter
  • 500 g of icing sugar
  • black colored food coloring
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Decorating ingredients

  • Black icing pen
  • Smarties pack
  • 1 pack of mixed colored fondant icing (green, pink, blue and white)
  • Liquorice and strawberry laces and jelly fangs etc.
  • Icing eyes

Instructions
 

  • Heat your oven to 180°C / gas 4 conditions and arrange two 12 hole cupcake tins with the cases
  • Beat sugar and butter until the mixture becomes creamy. Combine the eggs and chocolate with proper beating.
  • Then mix the Cocoa powder , baking powder, food coloring and milk into the mix.Using a spoon add the mixture evenly into cupcake cases and level the tops.
  • Bake for nearly 20 min until the cupcakes are spongy and fluffy. First allow to cool within the tin and then place on a wire rack for cooling completely.
  • For making the buttercream, beat your butter until it becomes soft and then mix with the icing sugar. Mix the black coloring and vanilla to mix well and transfer into a piping bag which is connected with a nozzle.
  • To make monster faces,m you can cut small circles of blue and green fondant that fits the top of the cupcakes and fit them to the cupcake with a little bit of buttercream. You can add facial parts like mouth , nose and eyes using sweets or with icing eyes.
  • For skeleton shapes you can cut shapes with the white fondant and fix them in relevant places using buttercream.
  • In addition to monster faces you can incorporate any other creative halloween funny ideas into these cupcakes as you wish.

Notes

  • One serving contains 517 Kcal.
Keyword Halloween cupcakes