How to Decorate Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween cupcakes are a great treat for school parties, to take to office co-workers or to serve at a Halloween party. Whatever the reason you are making Halloween cupcakes, you need to know how to decorate your Halloween cupcakes.

Halloween is all about ghosts, monsters, graveyards, witches, mummies, black cats, spiders and haunted houses. Keep all these Halloween things in mind as you decide how to decorate your Halloween cupcakes.

The following lists will help you as you decide which Halloween theme to use for your Halloween cupcakes and the step-by step instructions for decorating the cupcakes:

#1 How to Decorate Halloween Cupcakes - Ghosts and Goblins

You will need about 24 cookies that are oval shaped, chocolate icing for 24 cupcakes, white icing, and one tube of chocolate decorators icing. First ice the cupcakes in the chocolate icing. Then ice each cookie white and insert into the middle of the Halloween cupcake. Use the chocolate decorators icing to paint faces on the 'ghosts'.

#2 How to Decorate Halloween Cupcakes - Spider Web Fun

These simple Halloween cupcakes are easy to make and delightful to share. Ice your cupcakes with white icing, green icing would work also. Then fill a pastry bag with a very small round tip - a plastic zip loc baggie will also work with a small hole cut in the corner for this technique. Starting in the middle of each cupcake place a small circle of icing and then continue making up to four circles on the top of the cupcake. Then add lines from the center, like the spokes of a bike out to the edges of the cupcakes. You can even add small plastic spiders on the top of these cupcakes.

#3 How to Decorate Halloween Cupcakes - Witch Hat Cupcakes

For these cupcakes you will require 24 round chocolate cookies, 24 chocolate kiss candies, orange or green icing for 24 cupcakes, 1 tube of gel icing and 1 tube of chocolate decorator icing, and colored sugar. Ice the cupcakes first and then place one cookie on top of each cupcake. Use a dab of the gel icing in the middle of each cookie and place the chocolate candy on the gel. Then add some of the chocolate decorator icing to the top of the hat and sprinkle the colored sugar over the top. Enjoy.

#4 How to Decorate Halloween Cupcakes - Mummy Cupcakes

These cupcakes are great fun to make. You will need chocolate icing for 24 cupcakes. Chocolate cookie crumbs spread on a plate, 24 lady finger cookies, white icing and small candy's for eyes. Start by icing the cupcakes with the chocolate icing and then dipping the cupcake upside-down carefully onto the plate of cookie crumbs. Please one lady finger cookie on the top of the cupcake and then in a crisscross pattern cover the cookies in the white icing and add the candies as the mummy eyes.

Decorating Halloween cupcake is great fun so plan how you want to decorate your cupcakes, gather all your supplies and maybe a couple helpers, and then have a lot of fun preparing this special Halloween treat.