Halloween Cupcake Recipes
Delicious halloween cupcake recipes from around the world and submitted by visitors like yourself. Ghoulishly delicous and macabre in sight. Take a bite of heaven or something will go bump in the night!
Here you’ll find a list to some of our favorite, non halloween cupcake recipes.
Oh, and some extra hidden halloween cupcake fun too!
1) Easy Halloween Cupcakes
Servings: 24
Comments:
If you need tasty little goodies at the last minute for your children’s Halloween get-together or to bring to school for a Halloween party, here’s a recipe that will work well and will get you or the kid’s to the party on time.
Ingredients:
1 package cupcake or cake mix
1 container Ready-made Vanilla Frosting
Orange food coloring
1 tube black or dark brown cake decorating gel
Instructions:
Make cupcakes according to instructions on package. Mix vanilla frosting with orange food coloring and frost cupcakes. Decorate cupcakes with decorating gel to make spiders, webs, etc.
Makes 24 cupcakes.
2) Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Perfect for a Halloween party or Thanksgiving treat…
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2 cups
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flour
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2 tsp
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baking powder
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1 tsp
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ground cinnamon
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¼ tsp
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ground nutmeg
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¼ tsp
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ground ginger
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¼ tsp
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salt
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½ cup
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vegetable oil
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1¼ cups
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granulated sugar
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2 large
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eggs
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1 tsp
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vanilla extract
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1 cup
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canned pure pumpkin
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CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:
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3 cups
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powdered sugar
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8 oz
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package cream cheese, softened
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4 Tbs
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butter, softened
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1 tsp
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fresh lemon juice
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yellow and red food coloring
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Preheat oven to 350° F. Line a 12 cup muffin pan (or a 24 cup mini muffin pan) with baking cups.
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In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and salt. Set aside.
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In a separate bowl, stir oil and sugar together. Whisk in eggs, and stir in vanilla extract.
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Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Stir pumpkin into the batter until it is thoroughly combined.
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Spoon batter into lined muffin cups. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Less time will be needed if you are making mini-cupcakes. When cupcakes are removed from oven, let them sit for about 10 minutes, then remove them to cool completely on a wire rack.
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Meanwhile, prepare the cream cheese frosting: In a medium bowl, beat together frosting ingredients (except food coloring) until smooth. Add about 12 drops of yellow food coloring and 4 drops of red food coloring and beat until the frosting turns orange.
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Yield: 12 regular-sized or 24 mini cupcakes
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