Mummys And Monsters And Spiders Oh My Cupcakes Recipes

GOBLINS DELIGHT CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Filling: Combine cream cheese, sugar, egg, salt, orange peel and food color in a small mixer bowl, beat until smooth.
• Add chocolate chips, set aside
• Cupcakes: make as directed on package.
• Fill 24 paper muffin cups 2/3 full with batter.
• Spoon about 1 tablespoon cheese filling onto each cupcake.
• Bake at 350 degrees F. for about 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake portion, comes out clean.

EASY MONSTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Line cupcake pan with liners.
• Make cupcakes per directions on box.
• Cool cupcakes completely.
• Stir frosting as per instructions on box.
• Put frosting on top of cupcake roughly in the shape of a skull (see photo) leaving part of the cupcake exposed.
• Decorate with candies. (see photos).
• Melt chocolate chips in a small microwave safe bowl for about 20 seconds. This depends on your microwave.
• Don't over melt. Just do it until the chips are soft with some solid left in the center of the chip. Stir and the rest will melt. Add more time if needed, but do it slowly, about 10 seconds at a time.
• Dip a tooth pick into the chocolate chip and dot the Skittles (or whatever candy you use for the eyes). The chocolate serves as the pupil of your monters' eyes. Please make sure the "s" stamped on the Skittles is facing down and the blank side is facing up.

EASY HALLOWEEN WORM CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven according to cake mix package directions.
• Grease and flour a 12-cup cupcake pan.
• Prepare cake mix according to package directions.
• Pour batter into cupcake pans and bake as directed on cake mix box.
• Let cupcakes cool thoroughly before frosting.
• Spread cupcakes lightly with chocolate icing. Sprinkle cookie crumbs on top.
• Cut gummy worms in half (as many as you like).
• Put icing onto cut end of the worms and stick to the top of cupcakes.
• You can use as few or as many as will fit on each cupcake.
• Let icing set for 10 minutes and then enjoy.

SPIDER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Put 8 legs (licorice strings) in each oreo cookie.
• With icing 'glue' on 2 red candies on each cookie for the eyes.
• Place spider on each frosting cupcake!

EASY HALLOWEEN MUMMY CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners, preferable dark-colored or Halloween-themed ones.
• Combine cake mix, water, eggs, and oil in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer on low speed until moistened, about 30 seconds. Beat at medium speed until batter is smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 18 to 21 minutes. Remove from oven and cool tins on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the tins and cool completely on a wire rack before decorating, about 1 hour.
• Spoon frosting in an pastry bag or a plastic bag with the corner cut off. Pipe strands of frosting onto the top and bottom of the cupcakes, leaving an oval eye shape exposed in the middle. Pipe 2 dots in the exposed middle for the mummy's eyes. Place 2 chocolate chips flat-side up in the middle of each dot for the pupils.

HALLOWEEN SPIDER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 18 regular-size muffin cups. In large bowl, mix flour, granulated sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In medium bowl, mix buttermilk, oil, 1 teaspoon of the vanilla and the egg with whisk until blended. Add oil mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until blended. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.
• Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely.
• In large bowl, beat butter, 1 cup of the powdered sugar and remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Gradually add remaining powdered sugar, beating until blended. Frost cupcakes. For each cupcake, place small spider-shaped stencil or template on frosting; sprinkle black sanding sugar over stencil to cover the image. Carefully remove stencil. Place red candy in center of spider.

MUMMYS, AND MONSTERS AND SPIDERS, OH MY! CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Seperate your frosting, and color as desired, place a damp paper towel over your bowls of frosting, this keeps a crust from forming which can clog your decorating tips.
• MONSTER CUPCAKES - let your imagination run wild!
• Runts.
• Licorice Candy.
• Sour Strips.
• Assorted Colored frosting Frosting.
• For fur/ skin fill a cone with frosting and tip of choice for the type of fur you want (see intro for #'s) - I used : green monster - star tip , white monster - round tip , teal blue - leaf tip , bright blue - grass tip . For the white fangs on the green monster I used the round tip squeezed a little frosting then pulled away to make the fang.
• Top with candies for eyes, tounges, fangs etc.
• WORMS CUPCAKES.
• Gummy Worms.
• Chocolate wafer cookies.
• Frost the cupcake ( I added cocoa to my butter cream just for these to start with a brown base). Crush a couple of Oreos, or other cookies without the cream, for the dirt, insert the worms, then added grass around the edges (Tip # 233) and a couple of flowers. I found it hard to get some of worms in whole, so cut them down before inserting. Another fun addition is to create tombstones or ghosts with vanilla finger cookies.
• MUMMY CUPCAKES.
• Use a touch of frosting to put your mini M & M eyes in place.
• Use Tip 47 (ridges down) to create bands of white frosting for the mummy wraps, overlap and curve them a bit - mummy's aren't flat or symetrical. Leave a tiny gap for a smile. Once frosted I used a dot of black gel food color for the pupils on the eyes.
• SPIDER CUPCAKES.
• Chow Mein Noodles.
• Chocolate, Melted with a little shortening.
• Mini M & M's.
• Black gel, melted chocolate or black food coloring (for the spider's web.
• Black edible glitter.
• Dip small clusters of the noodles in chocolate - a fork helps, place on waxed paper, dip individual legs and poke into the cluster; add red m&m eyes. Make ahead and let them completely firm - you may need to pop them into the fridge. Make extras in case of breakage.
• Frost the cupcakes white, then to create the web, using black gel frosting from the store, or a small cone with melted chocolate (I dipped a tooth pick into my black gel food coloring) starting from the center make three thin concentric circles on top of the cupcake; take a thin knife or tooth pick and starting from the center to the outer edge drag throught the circles spacing the drags aobut 1/3" - 1/2" apart. (You could also use chocolate icing and pipe with white glaze) . Sprinkle black edible glitter around the edges. Top the web with your chocolate chow mein spider. If any legs fall off, a little dab of melted chocolate will glue them back into place.
• NOTE:.
• A little egg white or egg white powder added to your frosting can give it a little extra firmness to hold piped shapes better.