• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
The Baking ChocolaTess
  • Desserts
    • Bars
    • Blondies
    • Brownies
    • Cakes
    • Cheesecakes
    • Cobblers and Crisps
    • Cookies
    • Cupcakes
    • Pies
    • Poke Cakes
    • Trifles
  • Holiday Seasonal Desserts
    • Roundups
    • Birthday & Sprinkle Fun
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
    • New Years
    • Valentine's Day
    • St. Patrick's Day
    • Easter
    • 4th of July
    • Mother's Day
    • Father's Day
    • Candy Included
    • Jello Shots
    • Party Desserts
  • No-Bake Dessert Recipes
    • Cereal Treats
    • Dips & Cookie Doughs
    • Fillings
    • Frostings
    • Fudges
    • Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts
    • Layered Desserts
    • Puddings
    • Truffles
  • Breakfast & Brunch
    • Breads
    • Coffee Cakes
    • Donuts
    • Muffins
    • Rolls
    • Smoothies
  • Healthy Sweets
    • Gluten-Free
    • Flourless
    • Keto
    • Sugar-Free
    • Vegan
  • Favorite Flavors & Ingredients
  • Videos
    • Amazon Shop Baking Supplies
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
menu icon
go to homepage
  • RECIPES
  • VIDEOS
  • BAKING 101
  • ABOUT
  • SUBSCRIBE
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
  • search icon
    Homepage link
    • RECIPES
    • VIDEOS
    • BAKING 101
    • ABOUT
    • SUBSCRIBE
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
  • ×

    Home » Holiday Seasonal Desserts » Roundups

    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Published: Sep 27, 2022 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

    91 shares
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Yummly
    Jump to Recipe Print Recipe

    If you are looking for some easy ideas to decorate cupcakes for Halloween, these 3 spooky Halloween Cupcake Ideas are the perfect sinful Halloween treats for zombies, ghosts & witches! These party cupcakes are so spooky fun to make and to eat!  Who's ready to party?

    More devilish delish cupcakes?  You'll love these Ultimate Kit Kat Cupcakes, these Halloween Skull Cupcakes, these Halloween Ghost Cupcakes and these Double Stuffed Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes for sure!

    Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Cake & Frosting Options

    So, first, figure out the cakes and frosting you want to use. You can make your own cupcakes from scratch or use a boxed mix.

    Here's a Super-Moist Chocolate Cake, Retro Red Velvet Cake and a Super-Moist Vanilla with Cake Vanilla Buttercream if you're wanting to make your own cupcakes.

    If you're in a pinch or just don't want to deal with making them homemade, then by all means, use your favorite boxed cake mix to make cupcakes. Most boxed mix cupcakes make 20-24 cupcakes.

    You will need buttercream frosting and food dye for most of these Halloween cupcakes ideas, so for a shortcut, you could use store-bought frosting with food dye.

    I am partial to homemade buttercream on these cupcakes, because homemade frosting just tastes so much better that frosting out of the tub, if you've ever compared.  Plus, homemade buttercream is pretty easy to make.

    Ghost Cupcakes

    Hurry quick! No time to lose; before the ghosts run out of BOO's with these frightfully, cute Ghost Cupcakes!

    1. For these Ghost Cupcakes, pipe vanilla frosting on top of each cupcake, then add two candy eyeballs.
    2. For a swirly ghost like this, use a large star tip, or for a smooth ghost effect use a large round tip with your pastry bag.
    3. You can also use a ziplock bag and snip a hole in the corner to pipe out frosting as well. That's pretty much it and we're here for the ghostly Boo's!

    Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcake Ideas

    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Witches Cauldron Cupcakes

    “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” These Witches Cauldron Cupcakes will definitely get the party started!

    1. We made these easy by scooping green colored frosting into a piping bag.
    2. To make green frosting, use yellow and green food dye to get a neon green color when coloring your vanilla buttercream.
    3. Swirl a frosting layer over the cupcakes, then pipe bubbles on top.
    4. Add some skull and bones candy and candy eyeballs on top to make it look like a bubbling stew.  You can also use green sixlets for bubbles and/or use some green gel frosting to make it look slimy too!
    5. To make bubbles with frosting, you could use this set of round frosting tips or just use a ziplock bag and snip a corner of the bag to pipe your frosting out.

    Easy Halloween Witch Cauldron Cupcake Ideas

    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Zombie Brain Cupcakes

    Our Zombie Brain Cupcakes can be made pink or green!  We went with coloring our frosting a light pink and piped out some oozing bloody brains for devouring!

    1. Color your frosting pink or green and swirl a thin frosting layer over the cupcakes. Place remaining frosting into a piping bag with a small or medium round tip. Or you can just use a ziplock bag and snip a corner of the bag to pipe your frosting out for the brains.
    2. Pipe a line of frosting down the center of your cupcake for the center line of your brains.
    3. Pipe a winding pattern of frosting on each side of the center line to create the brain wrinkles.  You can do more wrinkles if you want to!  I went pretty basic and I used a medium round tip to make my squiggles.
    4. To make the blood, in a small bowl, stir together your a few tablespoons of corn syrup and a few drops of red food coloring. Drizzle the tops of the brains with the corn syrup blood.

    Easy Halloween Zombie Brain Cupcake Ideas

    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcake Ideas

    Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcake Ideas for Halloween party

     

    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Looking for More Halloween Party Ideas?

    • Baked Pumpkin Cake Donuts
    • Halloween Oreos
    • Easy Halloween Cereal Treats
    • Fluffy Pumpkin Dip
    • Marvelous Chocolate Chip Party Cookie Cake
    • Hocus Pocus Brownie Bites
    • Fun Chocolate Sprinkle Donuts
    • 3 Fa'BOO'lous Halloween Jello Shots

     

    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Kim Lange
    If you are looking for some easy ideas to decorate cupcakes for Halloween, these 3 spooky Halloween Cupcake Ideas are the perfect sinful Halloween treats for zombies, ghosts & witches! 
    5 from 1 vote
    Print Recipe Pin Recipe
    Prep Time 15 mins
    Course Dessert
    Servings 24 Servings
    Calories

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 Cake mix of choice for cupcakes
    • Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Make homemade or use pre-made to color frosting
    • Food Coloring Gels
    • Sprinkles
    • Edible Candy Eyeballs
    • Halloween Candies

    Instructions
     

    • So, first, figure out the cakes and frosting you want to use. You can make your own cupcakes from scratch or use a boxed mix.  Boxed mix cupcakes make 24 cupcakes.
      Here's a Super-Moist Chocolate Cake, Retro Red Velvet Cake and a Super-Moist Vanilla with Cake Vanilla Buttercream if you're wanting to make your own cupcakes. 
      You will need buttercream frosting and food dye for most of these Halloween cupcakes ideas, but you could also use store-bought frosting with food dye.  I am partial to homemade buttercream on these cupcakes, because it just tastes so much better that frosting out of the tube.  Plus, homemade buttercream is pretty easy to make.

    Ghost Cupcakes

    • For these Ghost Cupcakes, pipe vanilla frosting on top of each cupcake, then add two candy eyeballs.
    • For a swirly ghost like this, use a large star tip, or for a smooth ghost effect use a large round tip with your pastry bag.
    • You can also use a ziplock bag and snip a hole in the corner to pipe out frosting as well. That's pretty much it and we're here for the ghostly Boo's!

    Witches Cauldron Cupcakes

    • We made these Witches Cauldron Cupcakes easy by scooping green colored frosting into a piping bag.
    • To make green frosting, use yellow and green food dye to get a neon green color when coloring your vanilla buttercream.
    • Swirl a frosting layer over the cupcakes, then pipe bubbles on top.
    • Add some skull and bones candy and candy eyeballs on top to make it look like a bubbling stew. You can also use green sixlets for bubbles and/or use some green gel frosting to make it look slimy too!
    • To make bubbles with frosting, you could use this set of round frosting tips or just use a ziplock bag and snip a corner of the bag to pipe your frosting out.

    Zombie Brain Cupcakes

    • Our Zombie Brain Cupcakes can be made pink or green! Color your frosting pink or green and swirl a thin frosting layer over the cupcakes. Place remaining frosting into a piping bag with a small or medium round tip. Or you can just use a ziplock bag and snip a corner of the bag to pipe your frosting out for the brains.
    • Pipe a line of frosting down the center of your cupcake for the center line of your brains.
    • Pipe a winding pattern of frosting on each side of the center line to create the brain wrinkles. You can do it more wrinkles if you want to, I used a medium round tip.
    • To make the blood, in a small bowl, stir together your a few tablespoons of corn syrup and a few drops of red food coloring. Drizzle the tops of the brains with the corn syrup blood.
    Keyword cupcakes, halloween, party dessert, party treats
    Tried This Recipe?Let us know how it was by commenting below!
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    3 Easy Halloween Cupcake Ideas
    « Easy Baked Apple Donuts
    Ultimate Trash Brownies »
    91 shares
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Yummly

    About Kim Lange

    Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

      Leave a Reply

      Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

      Recipe Rating




    1. Kim Lange says

      September 28, 2022 at 8:41 am

      Thank you so much! I love Halloween!

    2. 2pots2cook says

      September 28, 2022 at 6:25 am

      Vibrant and creative as always, Kim! 🙂 🙂

    Primary Sidebar

    WELCOME!

    Kim Lange

    Hi, I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

    More about me →


    POPULAR

    • Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist!
      Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist!
    • Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies! Pure Nirvana!
      Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies! Pure Nirvana
    • Awesome Country Apple Fritter Bread!
      Awesome Country Apple Fritter Bread
    • How To - Baking Perfect Cookie Tips!
      Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Home-made Snickerdoodle Cookie Bars
      Homemade Snickerdoodle Cookie Bars
    • "Phenomenal" Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
      "Phenomenal" Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

    AS SEEN IN


    Footer

    ↑ back to top

    Info

    • About
    • Recipe Index
    • Contact
    • Work With Me
    • Privacy Policy

    Contact

    • [email protected]
    The Baking ChocolaTess Blog

    Follow

    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • Instagram

    Copyright © 2023 THE BAKING CHOCOLATESSÂ