Halloween Ghost Cupcakes
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Bring on the cream filled ‘Ghosts In the Graveyard’ Cupcakes! Let’s party with these orange Halloween ghost cupcakes filled with luscious marshmallow cream filling, ganache topping and cute little ghosts peering up at me with fake candy bar gravestones.
Now that’s my kind of celebrating fun and spooky! Party-time!! Speaking of party cupcakes, you’ll also love 3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas! So on with more party fun? You betcha with these 20 Spooktacular Halloween Desserts, 10 Halloween Party Desserts and these National Chocolate Chip Day Cookie Recipes!
Have you ever had any of those bizarre ‘spur of the moment’ nights when you were a teen and you got this brilliant idea to sneak out in the middle of the night to the graveyard with a bunch of giggly girlfriends and hope for some weird, unexplained mystery thing to happen? Crazy, huh? Well, I’m right there with ya…and it did happen to me.
These Halloween Ghost Cupcakes sort of inspired me of that night. I know they’re not scary, but I don’t like scary. gross looking food, let alone ‘scary’ in general . (I’m a real cupcake…really.) That’s where the reality lies.
It was so creepy, sometimes I ask myself, ‘Hey, did this really did happen or did I just dream it up?’ Yup…it really happened. Are you dying to hear?
Ok, ok, so we all walked to the graveyard, which was only about a couple of blocks from where we were spending the night. As we entered the graveyard, we browsed around, whispered and was getting all caught up in reading the names on the gravestones.
We came upon this one that had a ceramic button-like oval stone that had a picture of the man that was buried there, and this ceramic stone was attached to the gravestone. One of the girls said out-loud, “If you’re here with us or in spirit, show us a sign”.
Umm…wrong thing to say?
As we all stood there waiting for nothing to happen, something did happen! Within seconds, that ceramic button popped right off the gravestone!!!! I kid you not. It was so eerie, we didn’t wait around to see what was going to happen next, and ran as fast as we could, never looking back.
So…who’s going to go to sleep after that?? LOL…NOT ME! What a rush!
Unless you want to be involved with the dark world, don’t summon it, even as a joke. Just sayin’…it’s like opening up a pandora’s box. Me? I’m just going to summon these Halloween Ghost Cupcakes into my mouth and be done with it! Way more fun!
Ingredients You Need for Halloween Ghost Cupcakes
Cupcakes
- 1 package Orange Cake Mix substitute orange juice for water in cake mix directions if you have it for extra flavor!!
Marshmallow Cream Filling
- 2 teaspoons very hot water
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 – 7 ounce jar marshmallow cream
- ½ cup shortening
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Chocolate Ganache
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¾ heavy whipping cream
Frosting for the Ghosts
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Sprinkles/1 large Hershey’s Cookie & Cream Bar broke up into chunks/24 mini chocolate chips
How to Make Halloween Ghost Cupcakes
Cupcakes
- Prepare and bake cake batter according to package directions, using paper-lined muffin cups. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
Cream Filling
- In a medium sized bowl, add the hot water and salt together and stir to dissolve the salt in the hot water and allow to cool.
- Add the marshmallow cream, shortening, powdered sugar, and vanilla to the salt water mixture and whip on medium speed until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
- Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag and insert round pastry tip.
- Fill the bag with cream filling. Push the tip down into the middle of each cupcake, about ¾ of an inch deep. Squeeze enough to cause the top of the cupcake to rise, but not enough to cause it to crack.
Chocolate Ganache
- Place chocolate in a small bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil. Pour over chocolate; whisk until smooth. Cool, stirring occasionally, to room temperature or until ganache reaches a dipping consistency.
- Dip cupcake tops in ganache. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs or sprinkles if desired.
Ghosts in the graveyard
- In a small bowl, beat together butter, sugar, milk, vanilla, and salt until light and fluffy.
- Fill a zip lock bag with frosting. Cut about ⅓ of an inch off the corner. Squeeze frosting onto cupcakes, going in a circular motion to the height you want, adding mini ghosts to your cupcakes.
- Decorate the eyes with sprinkles and a mini chocolate chip for the mouth. Add chunks of Hershey’s white chocolate chunks to represent gravestones. Voila! The kiddies will love these!
- Chill for 20 minutes or until set. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 2 dozen.
As for the frosting ghosts on top of the Halloween Ghost Cupcakes, if you don’t want to do homemade frosting, you can used canned frosting and add chocolate chips and sprinkles for the eyes and mouth. You can also top the cupcake with these over the top cute friendly little ghosts candies from Wilton. Aren’t they fun? Let’s party!!
Halloween Party Ideas coming right at ya!
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Cream Filled 'Ghosts In the Graveyard' Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 package Orange Cake Mix substitute orange juice for water in cake mix directions if you have it for extra flavor!!
Marshmallow Cream Filling
- 2 teaspoons very hot water
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 - 7 ounce jar marshmallow cream
- ½ cup shortening
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Chocolate Ganache
Frosting for the Ghosts
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Sprinkles/1 large Hershey’s Cookie & Cream Bar broke up into chunks/24 mini chocolate chips
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Prepare and bake cake batter according to package directions, using paper-lined muffin cups. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
Cream Filling
- In a medium sized bowl, add the hot water and salt together and stir to dissolve the salt in the hot water and allow to cool.
- Add the marshmallow cream, shortening, powdered sugar, and vanilla to the salt water mixture and whip on medium speed until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
- Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag and insert round pastry tip.
- Fill the bag with cream filling. Push the tip down into the middle of each cupcake, about ¾ of an inch deep. Squeeze enough to cause the top of the cupcake to rise, but not enough to cause it to crack.
Chocolate Ganache
- Place chocolate in a small bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil. Pour over chocolate; whisk until smooth. Cool, stirring occasionally, to room temperature or until ganache reaches a dipping consistency.
- Dip cupcake tops in ganache. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs or sprinkles if desired.
Ghosts in the graveyard
- In a small bowl, beat together butter, sugar, milk, vanilla, and salt until light and fluffy.
- Fill a zip lock bag with frosting. Cut about 1/3 of an inch off the corner. Squeeze frosting onto cupcakes, going in a circular motion to the height you want, adding mini ghosts to your cupcakes.
- Decorate the eyes with sprinkles and a mini chocolate chip for the mouth. Add chunks of Hershey’s white chocolate chunks to represent gravestones. Voila! The kiddies will love these!
- Chill for 20 minutes or until set. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 2 dozen.
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