Scary Halloween Cupcakes

Trick or Treat? TREAT!!! Some frighteningly good decorating ideas.

Method

Oven and Baking Cases

Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan oven 150°C, 325°F, gas mark 3.

Line muffin trays with 18 cupcake papers.

Cupcake Mix

Place all the cupcake ingredients into a mixing bowl. Beat together preferable with an electric mixture until the mixture is pale and fluffy, this could take up to 5 minutes.

Bake and Cool

Spoon the mixture into the cupcake papers. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes in the tins, before cooling completely on a wire rack. Once cold you can start getting scary.

Devilishly Good Decorating Ideas....

Boo!

Bring the apricot jam to the boil in a small pan and using a pastry brush, brush the cake all over with the jam.

Take a walnut size piece of Ready to Roll white icing and add a few drops of black food colouring. Mix and knead until you get a marbling effect.

Flatten the coloured sugar paste icing slightly and place over the top of the cup cake.

Use Silver Spoon Cakecraft Chocolate Letters to spell out a scary message - BOO!

Devil Cake

Knead a tube of Silver Spoon Cakecraft Red Designer Icing fitted with the rosette nozzle.

Pipe the icing in a swirl onto the cake.

Top with Ready to Roll Icing coloured with black food colouring shaped into horns.

Spiders Web

Pipe the cake with Silver Spoon Cakecraft Black Designer Icing. Smooth with a slightly damp knife.

Using a tube of Silver Spoon Cakecraft White Writing Icing starting at the centre of the cake, ice circles of white chocolate. (Do not worry if they are wobbly).

Then using a cocktail stick, draw through the icing from the centre to the edge of the cake. Continue round the cake, once you have finished, you will have a spider's web design.

Monster

Pipe the cake with Green Silver Spoon Cakecraft Designer Icing. Smooth with a slightly damp knife.

Take a piece of Silver Spoon Cakecraft Ready to Roll icing and colour it black with Silver Spoon Cakecraft black food colouring. Roll it out and cut into monster eyes and hair.

Finish decorating with Silver Spoon Cakecraft Writing icing.

Eye Ball

Pipe the cake with White Designer Icing. Smooth with a slightly damp knife.

Make veins with Red Writing Icing and top with either and edible or plastic eyeball shape.

Ghost

Bring the apricot jam to the boil in a small pan and using a pastry brush, brush the cake all over with the jam.

Roll two small balls of White Ready to Roll Icing. Place one on top of the cupcake.

Roll the other ball into a square measuring about 10 cm and ease over the cake.

Shape the icing into waves to make a ghost shape. Finish decorating with Black Writing Icing for eyes and a mouth.