Cupcake Recipes

DIRECTIONS:   Tint frosting with green and brown paste food colorings to reach desired grass color. Place frosting in a large pastry bag fitted with a multi-opening (grass) tip. Using quick upward motions, pipe frosting to look like grass on top of each cupcake.Place two or three candy pumpkins on top of each cupcake. If desired, change pastry bag tip to a small round tip; pipe up and over the green stem end of each candy pumpkin, forming tendrils.   Source:http://www.bhg.com/halloween/recipes/17-frightfully-good-halloween-cupcakes/#page=17   To browse cupcake wrappers you can use with these cupcakes, click HERE.

DIRECTIONS:           To make each tombstone Halloween cupcake, follow these decorating steps:Split a chocolate sandwich cookie in half. Remove and discard filling. Using a serrated knife, cut a cookie half to make a tombstone shape. Crush remaining cookie and trimmings. Pipe a message in white frosting onto flat side of tombstone.Place melted chocolate candy coating in a heavy resealable plastic bag; snip off a small corner. Pipe a leafless tree, 3 to 4 inches tall (make it thick so it won't break when hardened) onto a baking sheet lined with waxed paper. Chill until chocolate hardens.Frost a cupcake...

DIRECTIONS:   Use purchased red icing to pipe red zigzags atop white-frosted cupcakes.  Place circle gummy candies on top of each Halloween cupcake, using white frosting to secure.  Dip small doughnut holes in melted white chocolate or icing; place on top of gummy candies for eyes.  Use icing to attach small chocolate candies to the tops of doughnut holes for the pupils. Source:http://www.bhg.com/halloween/recipes/17-frightfully-good-halloween-cupcakes/#page=15   To browse cupcake wrappers you can use with these cupcakes, click HERE.

DIRECTIONS:       (Note: You can make different colored cat cupcakes by purchasing different colored sprinkles)Follow these simple steps to decorate the Halloween cupcakes:Using purchased or homemade cupcakes in any flavor, frost each cupcake with chocolate frosting. Cover the cupcakes with chocolate sprinkles; be generous to give the impression of fur.For eyes, cut a 1/8-inch-thick slice from the large end of two yellow gumdrops. Stick a short piece of shoestring licorice to the cut side of each slice to act as the cat's pupil. Press the eyes into the frosted cupcakes.For ears, use a paring knife to cut chocolate candy...

INGREDIENTS:   Chocolate cupcake (body)Canned chocolate icingChocolate sprinkles (hair)2 pieces of eye-type candy (we used Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts)Clean scissorsRuler1 package of black string lace licorice (legs)             DIRECTIONS: Frost the cupcake with chocolate icing and cover with sprinkles.  Press the eyes into place.Use scissors to cut eight 4-inch pieces of licorice for the legs. Holding all of the legs together in a bunch, bend them in half and crease. Push the end of each leg into the cupcake as shown.Source:  http://spoonful.com/recipes/hairy-daddy-longlegs-cupcakes   To browse cupcake wrappers you can use with these cupcakes, click HERE.