Hallowen Cupcakes
15 Spooky, Sweet Cupcakes For Halloween
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We've found some of the coolest, creepiest Halloween cookies and cake pops around, but if you like to keep your kiddie desserts old-school, check out these 15 spooky sweet cupcakes. From classic (and easy to bake or buy) cupcakes with Halloween toppers to versions featuring creative witches' hats, spiderwebs, mummies, owls, and ghosts, these cupcakes are more delightful than frightful!
Witch Hat Cupcake
A simple cupcake gets the Halloween treatment with a cupcake liner-turned-witch hat. Get the tutorial here.
Stenciled Cupcakes
Cupcake stencils with bats, spiders, and more turn Martha Stewart's chocolate cupcakes into spooky treats for Halloween.
Ghost Cupcakes
If you're not a fan of frosting, try Ambrosia Baking's ghost cupcakes. Fondant draped over a lollipop makes a scary, floating ghost.
Owl Cupcakes
One Charming Party turned simple chocolate cupcakes, Oreo cookies, and Reese's Pieces into the cutest owl cupcakes ever.
Toothy Skull Cupcakes
A vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting gets scary with the help of chocolate nonpareils, black shoestring licorice, and white jelly beans for these skull cupcakes.
Witches Brew Cupcake Toppers
Store-bought cupcakes turn into Halloween treats with hat and broom cupcake toppers ($14 for 12) from Etsy's KiwiTini Creations.
Low-Fat Mummy Cupcakes
Not only are these chocolate mummy cupcakes from Skinny Taste supercute, but they only have 165 calories and less than four grams of fat each.
Mini Triple Treat Cupcakes
Martha Stewart's bite-size mini triple-treat cupcakes have two types of candy on top of a peanut-butter-laced cupcake. If candy corn isn't your thing, we think pumpkin Peeps would be equally awesome.
Mini Blood Cakes
Blood cupcakes (OK, actually red velvet, but feel free to freak your kids out for a minute) and cream cheese frosting make for a yummy combo on these mini blood cupcakes from Craftaholics Anonymous. Die-cut Halloween toppers add to the fun.
Spiderweb Cupcakes
Country Living's chocolate cupcakes have white-chocolate spiderwebs floating on top.
Candy Corn Cupcakes
Pumpkin Witch-Hat Cupcakes
Whisk Kid created these pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (yum!), but the Halloween topper (made with Hershey's Kisses, chocolate coins, and red royal icing) is the scary cherry on top of this cake.
Monster Cupcakes
Martha Stewart's monster cupcakes would make for a fun and delicious project for your kids to help with.
Creepy Cupcake Cones
Colored ice cream cones, cake mix, frosting, and assorted candies turn a simple cupcake cone into the Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, and Wolf Man. Get the full instructions here.
Owl Cupcake
What could be more appropriate for Halloween than an abundance of chocolate!? Inside BruCrew Life's Reese's Owl cupcake combines a delicious chocolate cupcake with a Reese's cup, mini Oreos, and even more candy.
