October Spooktacular: RIP Cupcakes | While He Was Napping

Aren’t these fun? I was looking for cupcake ideas, because I love cupcakes, and saw a couple cute Halloween ideas. Some were just a little too simple – crushed Oreo’s for dirt – and some were WAAY too hard – a whole haunted house on each cupcake! I am, by no means, a professional baker; but, I do enjoy decorating cupcakes as long as it’s simple enough that I don’t get overwhelmed. So, here’s an idea that anyone can do. Let’s kick off October Spooktacular with a little extra pizzazz!

TOMBSTONE CUPCAKES

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Ingredients:
1 c white sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 c white flour
3/4 c milk
1/2 butter
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
6 tbs cocoa (optional)

*If I hadn’t forgotten I was nearly out of cocoa I would have put it in my recipe. It would look better with the theme of the cupcake… and chocolate is my favorite. But, I needed the little I had left for the frosting.
Directions:
– Line each muffin tin hole with a cupcake wrapper. Preheat the oven to 350F.
– Cream sugar and butter with an electric mixer.
– Beat in the eggs. Add vanilla.
– Combine flour and baking powder, add to creamed mixture.
– Mix well. Stir in milk until batter is smooth.
– Pour batter into cupcake wrappers. Fill wrappers about 3/4 of the way full.
– Bake 18-25 mins, depending on your oven and altitude. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch and you can cleanly insert and remove a toothpick into the center of the cupcakes.

CHOCOLATE FROSTING

Ingredients:

1/4 cup Butter

1 cup Powdered Sugar

2 Tbsp Milk

3 Tbsp Cocoa
1/2 tsp vanilla (or other flavoring, if desired)

Directions:

– Melt the butter in a microwave safe dish on high for about 20 seconds. Stir and add 10 more seconds if it’s not melted yet.
– Mix the powdered sugar into the butter.
– Gently stir in the milk. Start slowly or you’ll get a big poof of powdered sugar dust. Mix well.
– If you’re flavoring the frosting add that now.
– Pull out some of the white frosting and put it in a zippy bag. You’ll use it in a moment.
– Add the cocoa and mix well.

TOMBSTONE AND WORMS DECOR

Ingredients:

Nutter Butter Cookies (I used generic, Dollar Tree Nutter Butter knock offs. They didn’t taste quite as good, but they still worked.)

Gummy Worms

White Icing (Remember that little baggie you just filled up)

Directions:

– Cut the Nutter Butters in half with a knife. I found it was best to score the cookie on both sides first and then carefully work my way through one side of cookie. Flip and then cut the other cookie. That gave me the cleanest edges. But you can just chop them too, it’ll be in the frosting anyway…
– With the white icing, go around the top curved edge of the cookie and then write “RIP” or whatever other message you want on the cookie. It’s not a lot of space so short messages work best.
– Stick your gummy worms on and serve!

You could do the crushed chocolate cookies on top of the frosting too, for a more ‘dirt-like’ appearance.

Other fun topping ideas:
– candy pumpkins
– skeletons drawn on with the white icing
– plastic spider rings
– eyeball candies
– cotton candy spider webs

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