Halloween Cupcakes Recipe

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Gather the ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 F.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Beat the sugar, butter, and vegetable oil in the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment until creamy, about 3 minutes.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second increments (stirring after every increment) until it is completely smooth.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Add the chocolate and the vanilla to the sugar mixture and beat again. Add the eggs and egg yolks one at a time until just combined.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. Mix the sour cream, milk, and water in a separate bowl.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Mix the flour and milk mixtures alternatively into the chocolate mixture until all of the ingredients are combined. Do not overmix; just add until combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula to check for pockets of flour.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Line two cupcake pans with cupcake liners. Alternatively, you can grease each well with cooking spray. Fill each liner 2/3 full. Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes, or until the cupcakes are cooked through and come out clean when pricked with a toothpick.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Allow the cupcakes to cool slightly in the pan, remove, and place on a cooling rack to cool completely.

Make the Cupcakes and Prepare the Frosting - Split the frosting amongst five bowls and dye the colors you wish to use. We made green for Frankenstein's monster, black for outlining/trimming, orange for pumpkins, and left some frosting white for mummies and decoration.

Decorate the Pumpkin Cupcakes - Use the large circle tip to make five curved lines to resemble the segments of a pumpkin.

Decorate the Pumpkin Cupcakes - Use the green leaf tip to make two small leaves at the top of the pumpkin.

Decorate the Pumpkin Cupcakes - Use the black to make a face for the pumpkin. Get creative and make different faces for each pumpkin if you wish.

Decorate Mummy Cupcakes - Use the flat/basket tip to make long flat stripes in an overlapping pattern over the top of the cupcake. Leave some blank spaces so they resemble bandages.

Decorate Mummy Cupcakes - Add a dot of frosting to the back of each eye and stick them on the center of the cupcake.

Decorate Frankenstein's Monster Cupcakes - You can use the leaf tip or just take the tip off and pipe some of the green frosting to the top of the cupcake. Spread it out using a cake spreader.

Decorate Frankenstein's Monster Cupcakes - Add black frosting to resemble hair at the top. Draw a squiggly mouth and stitches with the black frosting as well. Make sure to use the smallest tip possible to make the neatest lines. Add the candy eyes to the center.