Every holiday (and birthday or minor celebration) calls for cupcakes. We know this much to be true. And with Halloween only a few days away, we’re checking out some of the coolest and creepiest cupcakes for your festivities. If you’re planning a party, be sure to take a look if you’re in the need for some inspiration.
1. Mummy Cupcakes
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A few strips of icing and some eyes make for a mummy. Make these as cute or as gory as you like.
2. Secret Pumpkin Cupcakes
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These cupcakes are cute enough on the outside, but inside, they have a surprise!
3. Scarecrow Cupcake
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Candy corn, M&M’s, and toasted coconut make for the perfect scarecrow faces. Feel free to accessorize with anything else.
4. Devil Cupcakes
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These simple red-frosted cupcakes (devil’s food cake, of course) have teeny fondant horns.
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6. Worm Cupcake
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7. Broken Glass Cupcake
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Okay, these look a little too real. The “glass” is made of sugar, and even though it’s not really glass, it can get sharp, so be careful.
8. Maple Leaf Cupcakes
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Perfect for celebrating the autumn season! The leaves were created by melting down Jolly Ranchers candies into a leaf-shaped mold.
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9. You can do pretty much anything with fondant, like create these cool witch’s hats
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11. Another Spider Cupcake
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If you really like your arachnids, try using pocky to make some crawly legs. Or, you can have 2D legs by simply using chocolate icing.
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13. Vampire Cupcakes
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A bit more restrained with the oozing blood, these cupcakes might just come back to life.
14. Ghost Cupcakes
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Just a simple squirt of icing can make a cute ghost. This shape could also make a cool witch’s hat if you used another color.
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16. Jack Skellington Cupcakes
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The Pumpkin King is a staple of Halloween, and his face is easy to recreate in chocolate and vanilla.
17. Frankenstein Cupcakes
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This adorable little guy is decorated with candies and icing for the signature look.
18. Graveyard Cupcakes
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Snap a vanilla wafer in half and decorate with frosting, and you’ve got yourself a tombstone. Placed into the icing of a cupcake, your dessert tray becomes a spooky cemetery.
19. Autumn Tree Cupcakes
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The trees can be made with any fast-cooling chocolate painted onto waxed paper and then peeled off. Just make sure they’re thick enough, otherwise they might break.
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If any of these appeal to you, click on the links under the photos to get the recipes. Happy baking!
