Halloween has to be my favorite time of year. It gets crazy fun! Making these Easy Frankenstein Cupcakes is a tradition - and you'd think we'd have gotten better at it by now. But for us, it's all about the fun!
Tasty green frosting on a chocolate cupcake and decorated like Frankie just makes my kids' day!
Next time try my S'Mores Cupcake recipe, it's another reader favorite if you haven't seen it already.
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I wanted to share our quick and easy process of whipping up some cupcakes, just to have at home, or to bring to school.
You could even give these out to trick or treaters or at your next Halloween party, if you were feeling extra generous! Get the kids to help, it's so much fun.... and the cupcakes don't have to be perfect!
Groceries needed: Ingredients
I use very basic ingredients for these cupcakes. Unless you want to go all out and make your own cupcakes/frosting from scratch. When it comes to whipping these up for the classroom or trick or treaters I want to make my life as easy as possible.
- Chocolate and vanilla cake mix
- Vanilla frosting (or cream cheese frosting)
- Chocolate Frosting
- Sprinkles
- Candy Eyes
- Hershey Kisses (or mini chocolate chips)
- Piping Bag
See recipe card for more information.
Recipe walkthrough: Instructions
This is an overview of the recipe steps. For more detailed instructions visit the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Step 1: Prepare cake mix per package instructions.
- Step 2: Add cake mix to cupcake pan and cook as instructed. Allow to cool before starting to frost.
- Step 3: Frost cupcakes in your favorite design.
Hint: To allow some good height to your cupcakes allow your frosting to be nice and stiff - this will be the powdered sugar ratio.
Mel's kitchen notes
To make these easy Halloween Treats as delicious as possible, make sure to use your favorite cake mix and favorite frosting. The decoration then becomes the only important thing!
Recipe variations and substitute ideas
The great thing about these easy Halloween cupcakes is there is a variety of spooky decorations.
- Ghost Cupcakes - a simple vanilla cupcake with white frosting piped on there in the shape of a ghost, with simple candy eyes and a Hershey Kiss as a ghost mouth.
- Frankenstein Cupcakes (or Monster Cupcakes) - use a chocolate cupcake and frost with a green colored frosting (or use green candy melts). Use Hershey Kisses or mini chocolate chips as Frankie's bolts in the side of the neck. Some Candy eyes and some sprinkles for hair. Easy peasy.
- Spider Webs - a chocolate cupcake with black frosting. Then make a spider web shaped out of melted white chocolate.
Necessary gear: Equipment
Other than a cupcake pan, piping bag and a cake box there's not any other equipment you will need. Try to find dark/black cupcake liners.
If you don't have a piping bag, use a small sandwich bag and snip the corner.
How to store leftovers
After the cupcakes have been decorated they should be eaten in the same few hours to keep their shape etc. They may begin to wilt if the room is a little warmer. If you have the space, keeping them refrigerated will probably help.
Other Halloween Recipes I think you'll love
Get into the Halloween spirit with these other holiday treats:
- Halloween Jungle Juice
- Halloween BBQ Recipes
- Halloween Treats Made With Oreos
- Halloween Pie Recipes
- Zombie Cupcakes
- Halloween Grilled Cheese
The inspiration for these decorated cupcakes came from Tessa, at Handle The Heat!
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Halloween Cupcakes
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Ingredients
- 2 (18 Ounce) Boxes Cake Mix vanilla and/or chocolate
- 2 Cups Chocolate Frosting
- 2 Cups Vanilla Frosting
- ¼ Cup Sprinkles black/brown
- Candy Eyes sugar decorations
- Food Coloring red, yellow, black and green
- Hershey Kisses
Instructions
- Make your favorite cupcakes - either your own recipe or you can make a box mix to make things easier.2 (18 Ounce) Boxes Cake Mix
- Mix frosting - again, either use your own recipe or use store bought ready to use. You'll need both chocolate and vanilla.2 Cups Chocolate Frosting, 2 Cups Vanilla Frosting
- Take a small batch of the vanilla frosting and mix green food color into it until you get a good dark green color for the frankenstein cupcakes.Food Coloring
- Put green icing into a piping bag or resealable bag with a smalll corner cut out and pipe onto the chocolate cupcakes.
- Take the dark sprinkles and arrange on the top for Frankie's hair. Then add two eyeballs. Take two Hershey Kisses and insert into the sides for his bolts.¼ Cup Sprinkles, Hershey Kisses, Candy Eyes
- Take a vanilla cupcake and pipe white frosting on top to form the shape of a ghost.
- Add 2 eyeballs and a Herskey Kiss for a ghostly mouth.
- Melt some white chocolate just until it is ready to drizzle. Drizzle onto wax paper in the shape of a spider web. Make sure webs are not too big. Place the wax paper in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes to allow the chocolate to harden again.
- Mix black food color into some chocolate frosting to make black frosting. Pipe onto a chocolate cupcake and arrange the spider web on top.
- Take 2 more bowls and some vanilla frosting. In one bowl mix yellow food color and the other mix orange.
- Fill another resealable bag - one side orange frosting and on top of that the yellow frosting - this way the frosting will squeeze out of the piping bag as two colors combined. This will give a sort of candy corn theme.
Notes
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