Easy Halloween Cupcakes
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Cupcake Decorating Ideas
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If you are going to have a Halloween Party, here's is some simple cupcake recipes and some Halloween Decorating Tips and ideas for your cupcakes. Of course any cake mix can be made into cupcakes, just don't let them cook as long as a regular cake. Baking cupakes is fun, get your kids involved. Frost your cupcakes with orange frosting and use candy corn to make a quick pumpkin face. See More Cupcake Recipes
Simple Cupcakes
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp baking
powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
Mix thoroughly in order given. Pour half full into cupcake liners. Bake 375 15 to 20 min. Makes 18 cupcakes
Old Fashioned Chocolate Cupcakes
3/4
cup butter or margarine
1 2/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2
cups sifted flour
2/3 cup cocoa
1 1/4 tsp soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/3 cup water
Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla in a large mixer bowl. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. In a seperate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. add alternately with water to creamed mixture. Blend just until combined. Fill paper lined muffin cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 min. Cool Frost
For
decorating cupcakes for halloween, make spider web cupcakes. Use orange frosting
and squeeze chocolate frosting in a circle, then use the back of a knife to connect
the web. Cut licorice gumdrops for a spider.
Here's more Halloween Cupcake decorating ideas
Wicked Witch - Frost with green icing; press on some M & M's for eyes, a candy corn nose, and licorice lace hair and eyebrows.
Black Cat Cupcakes - Prepare a white frosting or use ready-to-spread. Tint it orange, using 1 to 2 drops each red and yellow food coloring. Frost cupcakes. For each cat, slice a 1-inch black gumdrop into 3 pieces. Use small rounded end slice for head and largest slice for body; cut tail and ears from third slice.
Witches
Pussycat: For ears bend hollow licorice twists; bend in half, insert in cupcake.
Eyes are a black jellybean, halved lengthwize. Add red gumdrop nose, licorice
strips for whiskers.
Hooty Owl: Eye outlines are "peel" cut from 2 orange jellied fruit slices. His owlish eyes are orange pumpkin candies; snip of candy orange slice makes beak.
Little Good Witch: Use licorice twist for hat and curls. Make hat crown like the cat's ears, but larger) Add bit of jellied fruit slice for mouth, halved licorice drop for eyes, a candy coated licorice stick for nose.
Read some Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas
See a picture of a Halloween Cake... cake for Halloween
and try Aunt Elle's Jack O Lantern Cookies
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