Halloween Cupcakes

We are usually away at Halloween but this year we will be here making everything orange, black and scary!

I made some dark chocolate cupcakes today, with some fun toppers and some plastic spiders that I found in Tesco, I thought they were the perfect size for a cupcake, they are soooo effective.

There are lots of orange, black and purple cupcake cases around in the shops, to theme your cupcakes.

Flavour wise, chocolate is ideal to make a dark halloween cake, you could have chocolate buttercream (I added cocoa powder to my buttercream) or make a choc orange buttercream by adding some freshly squeezed orange juice and finely grated zest.

Use an orange colour paste, to make a rich dark orange for your swirls.  Or use it to colour a vanilla cake mix, to have bright orange cakes.  To get really gruesome, buy some 'Party Green' paste, and colour your vanilla cake green, add some jelly slimy worms to the decorations and the cupcakes will look great.

Scoop out the centre of the cupcake and add some strawberry or raspberry jam before decorating, to make oozing blood cupcakes!

You could have fun making some spiders and bats with black sugarpaste, this takes forever to colour, so buy it ready made, Lakeland do a good ready to roll black icing for £1.49.

Happy Halloween Baking