Easy Halloween Cupcakes Recipe
Celebrate Halloween with these fun and spooky Easy Halloween Cupcakes, perfect for adding a creepy-crawly charm to your party table. Choose from three creative decoration styles—spider, worm, or graveyard—to customize your cupcakes with chocolate frosting, licorice, gummy worms, and cookie crumbs for a festive treat everyone will love.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 12 decorated cupcakes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Cook
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
Basic Cupcakes
- 12 unfrosted cupcakes
Spider Cupcake Decoration
- ½ cup prepared chocolate frosting
- 8 strips red licorice
- 12 candy-coated milk chocolate pieces (such as M&M’s®)
Worm Cupcake Decoration
- ½ cup prepared chocolate frosting
- ¼ cup chocolate cookie crumbs
- 4 gummy worm candies
Graveyard Cupcake Decoration
- 1 cup prepared chocolate frosting
- 4 rectangular or oval sandwich cookies (such as Milano®)
- ¼ cup chocolate cookie crumbs
Instructions
- Prepare Cupcakes: Start with 12 unfrosted cupcakes at room temperature. These will serve as the base for your Halloween decorations.
- Decorate Spider Cupcakes: Spread about a teaspoon of chocolate frosting on each cupcake. Place candy-coated milk chocolate pieces on top for the spider bodies. Cut red licorice strips into small sections to create spider legs by inserting around each candy spider body.
- Decorate Worm Cupcakes: Frost cupcakes with chocolate frosting, then sprinkle chocolate cookie crumbs evenly over the top to create soil texture. Lay gummy worm candies partially buried on the surface to resemble worms coming out of the soil.
- Decorate Graveyard Cupcakes: Spread chocolate frosting generously on cupcakes. Crumble chocolate cookie crumbs to resemble dirt and sprinkle them on top. Break sandwich cookies like Milano® into small rectangles or ovals to mimic gravestones and stand them upright in the frosting.
- Serve and Enjoy: Arrange the decorated cupcakes on a platter for a spooky Halloween display. Serve immediately or store covered at room temperature until ready to enjoy.
Notes
- If desired, you can make your own chocolate frosting instead of using prepared.
- Red licorice strips can be substituted with any similar candy for spider legs.
- For a dairy-free option, use vegan chocolate frosting and candies.
- The decorating ideas can be mixed and matched or combined on cupcakes for variety.
- Store leftover decorated cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.
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