Inside: Here are 9 fun ways to decorate Halloween cupcakes with grandparents and grandkids. Spooky, ghoulish, creative, and fun—the perfect way to celebrate Halloween!

Fun Halloween Cupcakes

Looking for a fun Halloween activity to do with your kids or grandkids? I’ve got just the thing—Halloween cupcakes!

Cupcakes are easy to make and fun to decorate. Plus, it’s a wonderful opportunity for your kids and grandkids to practice their

• fine motor skills
• kitchen skills
• decision-making skills as they decorate and design their cupcakes

These cupcakes are fun, but my grandkids (and I) are not professional cupcake decorators. That’s not the goal. It’s to help your kids and grandkids learn about working with frosting, using cake tips, melting chocolate, and having fun.

For these Halloween cupcakes you will need the following:

• Recipe for Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Filling (see recipe below)
• Frosting—orange, black, neon green, purple
• Halloween food colors (Walmart)
• Square marshmallows (S’ more size)
• Halloween sprinkles
• Candy eyeballs—3 different sizes (Walmart)
• Plastic skeleton hands (Dollar Store)
• Eyeball gumballs
• Wilton Candy Melts—white, orange, red, black (Walmart or Michaels)
• Halloween silicone molds—skeleton, spider, pumpkin, Dracula teeth (Walmart)
• Cake tips #21, #96, #5, #2, #233, #32, #1a (Wilton-Walmart)

Here is my recipe for Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes. A batch makes 24 cupcakes. They taste delicious and are dying to be decorated for Halloween. A dear friend in the 1980s gave me this recipe.

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Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes for Halloween

 

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Prep time

25 mins

Cook time

35 mins

Total time

1 hour

 

My friend from California gave me this recipe in the 1980s. It was a recipe that had been in her family for years.

Author: Sharlene Habermeyer

Recipe type: dessert

Cuisine: American

Serves: 2 dozen

Ingredients

• 2 cups soft cream cheese
• 2 eggs
• ⅔ cup sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 cups of water
• 2 Tablespoons vinegar
• ⅔ cup vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

Instructions

1. In a bowl, combine the first 5 ingredients.
2. Mix well and set aside
3. In another bowl, combine the rest of the ingredients.
4. Mix well.
5. Put Halloween cupcake liners in a cupcake pan
6. Fill each cupcake liner ½ full of the flour/cocoa mixture
7. Spoon 1 Tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture on top of the cupcake.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes

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Halloween Cupcakes to Decorate with Grandparents & Grandkids

Here are some examples of our Halloween cupcakes.  The older grandkids (6 & 7) helped melt and pour the chocolate into the silicone Halloween molds and all the grandkids helped to frost and decorate their cupcakes.

Also, consider decorating some cupcakes beforehand to give your grandkids some ideas.

Skeleton Cupcakes:

We used a skeleton mold (Walmart) and first made the chocolate skeletons

Directions for melting chocolate:  

• Melt some of the white chocolate in the microwave. Melt in increments of 30 seconds and stir each time. Be careful not to burn the chocolate. It should take 1-2 minutes depending on how much chocolate you are melting and the temperature of your microwave.

Once it is fairly runny, do the following:

• Spoon the chocolate into the skeleton molds. Tap lightly on the kitchen drain to remove bubbles and make certain the chocolate is evenly distributed in the mold.
• Freeze for 30 minutes
• Pop the skeleton out of the mold

Directions for Decorating

• Make 3 different colors of frosting; orange, green & purple for 3 different variations
• Use cake tips #32, #1a, and #21  for frosting the cupcakes.
• Sprinkle Halloween sprinkles on the cupcakes
• Put the chocolate skeleton on top of each cupcake

Skeleton Hand Cupcake

This cupcake has a skeleton hand coming out of the dirt (cupcake).

Directions:

• Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes
• Frost the cupcake with black frosting using cake tip #96
• Use cake tip #233 and green frosting for the grass
• Press the plastic skeleton hand into the cupcake

Halloween Eyeball Cupcakes

This is a fun cupcake that even our 2-year old grandchildren could decorate.

Directions:

• Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes
• Frost the cupcake with purple frosting
• Sprinkle on Halloween sprinkles
• Make fairly thin neon green frosting that you can dip a square marshmallow into.
• Put the marshmallow on top of the frosted cupcake. The frosting on the marshmallow may run down the sides—but that makes it more fun, gooey, and spooky
• While the frosting is wet, put different size eyeballs on the frosted marshmallow

Halloween Gumball Eyeball Cupcakes

This is also a very easy cupcake that has lots of layers including a marshmallow layer.

Directions:

• Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes
• Frost the cupcake with orange frosting—you can use a cake tip or not.
• Sprinkle Halloween sprinkles
• Dip a square marshmallow into a thin purple frosting and put on top of the cupcake. This frosting will harden in about 1 hour
• Put one eye gumball in the center of the frosted marshmallow while the frosting is wet

Halloween Cupcakes: Spider Web

This cupcake requires more skill to make the spider web on top of the cupcake. We helped our 2 older grandchildren (6 & 7) to make the web. You can take their hands and with yours on top, guide them as they make the lines. Eventually, let them try it on their own.

Directions:

• Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes
• Melt red chocolate (Wilton) in the microwave and pour into a spider silicone mold (Walmart) Directions for melting chocolate are above
• Freeze for 30 minutes. Remove and pop out the spider from the mold
• Frost the cupcake with white frosting
• Use black frosting and cake tip #5 to make the spokes and use the #2 cake tip to make the web.
• Put the red spider in the middle of the cupcake

Dracula Teeth Cupcake

This cupcake uses chocolate Dracula teeth made from a mold. See directions above for melting chocolate

Directions:

• Melt white chocolate (Wilton) in the microwave
• Spoon the melted chocolate into the Dracula teeth mold
• Freeze for 30 minutes. Then pop out of the mold

Directions for decorating the cupcakes:

• Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes
• Frost the cupcakes with black frosting using cake tip #96
• Dip a square marshmallow into neon green frosting that is fairly thin
• Place the frosted marshmallow on top of the cupcake
• Put two drops of purple frosting for eyes. Then put 2 candy eyeballs on top of the purple frosting
• Put the white chocolate Dracula teeth on
• Frost hair with orange frosting using a grass cake tip #233

Halloween Cupcakes: Pumpkins

This is a simple fun cupcake and uses a pumpkin silicone mold (Walmart). See directions above for melting chocolate. The grandkids loved how the frosting dripped over the edges of the marshmallow.

Directions for making the chocolate pumpkins

• Melt orange chocolate (Wilton) in the microwave
• Spoon the melted chocolate into a silicone pumpkin mold
• Freeze for 30 minutes in the freezer
• Pop-out of the mold

Directions for Decorations (2 different ways)

• Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes
• Frost with purple frosting (can use a cake tip if you want)
• Sprinkle with Halloween sprinkles
• Dip a square marshmallow into neon green frosting—the frosting needs to be thin
• Place onto the cupcake
• Place the chocolate pumpkin on top

Idea #2

• Frost the cupcake with neon green frosting. Then go over with cake tip #233 (grass)
• Sprinkle with Halloween sprinkles
• Place the chocolate pumpkin on the cupcake

What kind of Halloween cupcakes have you made with your kids or grandkids? What was your experience? Please comment in the section below.

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