Spooky Halloween Party Recipes


Creepy Cupcakes

These decorated devil's food cupcakes are a fun project to involve the kids in. Cut out pictures of whatever your theme is—bugs, worms, monsters, spiders or ghosts—and then try to re-create them with candy like gumdrops, sour worms and gumballs.



Directions:

These decorated devil's food cupcakes are a fun project to get the kids involved. Cut out pictures of whatever your theme is -- bugs, worms, monsters, spiders, or ghosts -- and then try to re-create them with candy.

Ingredients
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 cups milk
1/4 cup butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
Chocolate Buttercream

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Place everything but the eggs directly into your mixer bowl. Mix on low speed just until incorporated. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes. Add egg, beat on high speed again for 2 minutes.

3. Measure out into cupcake pan lined with cupcake papers; a 2-inch ice cream scoop works great for this. Bake for about 15-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the cupcake comes out clean. Let cool slightly in the pan, then transfer to a rack to cool completely before frosting with Chocolate Buttercream.

4. Decorate as desired; some decorating ideas:
Gumballs (for large eyes with edible ink eye ball, or use a drop of frosting)
Gumdrops or Dots for small eyes
Sour spaghetti candy for hair
Sour worms

Recipe by Rori Trovato; photo by Luca Trovato