Easy Decorated Halloween Cupcakes
These cute, decorated Easy Halloween Cupcakes are perfect for your Halloween parties and get-togethers when you're looking for Halloween cupcake ideas! You can make these easily with my shortcuts using your favorite cake mix, black frosting and of course, Halloween sprinkles, because when you're busy, these are perfect to make without all the fuss!
Servings: 24 Servings
Calories:
Ingredients
Ingredients for Orange Halloween Cupcakes
- 1 box Orange Creamsicle Cake Mix Cake or any kind of cake you want to use.
- 1 box Duncan Hines Orange Supreme Cake Mix
- 1 3.4 ounce instant vanilla pudding
- ½ cup canola oil
- 1 ½ cups milk of choice
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- 16 oz Black Frosting - I used Global Sugar Art Cake & Cupcake Buttercream Frosting Decorator Icing Midnight Black, Firm, get 2 if you want to make sure you have plenty of frosting
- 1 jar Halloween Sprinkles - I used Halloween Sprinkles Monster Theme Eyes Cake Decorations Topper Edible Themed Sprinkles
Instructions
How to Make Halloween Decorated Cupcakes
- Most mixes will make 24 standard cupcakes, 48 mini cupcakes, or 12 jumbo cupcakes.
- Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Place cupcake liners in muffin pans and spray with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, using mixer, mix together the cake mix, instant pudding, oil, milk, orange zest and eggs for 3 minutes on medium speed.
- Pour cake batter mixture evenly into prepared muffin liners and then lightly tap on counter to pop any air bubbles in the batter.
- Bake cupcakes 16-19 minutes.
- Remove cupcakes from muffin tin pans after they've cooled down and place cupcakes on a cooling rack.
- Prepare the frosting by stirring it to get it smooth and creamy, and if it's too firm, place it in the microwave for 10-15 seconds to it's easier to pipe onto the cupcakes. If you want to make your own frosting, you can use this buttercream frosting recipe and add the black food coloring to make black frosting. Here's also 80+ Best Homemade Frosting Flavor Recipes you can choose from.
- Place the sprinkles in a bowl, set aside.
Preparing to Frost & Decorate Cupcakes
- Once the cupcakes are cooled, place 1/2 of the prepared frosting into a pastry bag or ziplock bag with a hole about 1/2 inch or so. Pipe a frosting circle around the edge of each of the cupcakes.
- Place each cupcake with the frosting into the sprinkles and shimmy it around to get sprinkles to cover the frosting. Once you've done this to all the cupcakes, place the remaining frosting into a pastry bag with a large star tip.
- In the center of each of the cupcakes, apply pressure to make a swirl on top. Finish up the cupcake swirls, and that's it!