Creepy Halloween Skull Cupcakes

Servings:

These Halloween cupcakes are fun to decorate and always a hit at any party I bring them to. I was inspired by the movie "Night of the Living Dead" when I created them. They look great in dark-colored or Halloween cupcake liners.

Prep
12 min
Cook
49 min
Servings
Difficulty
Medium

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.
  2. 2 Combine cake mix, water, eggs, and oil in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer on low speed until moistened, about 30 seconds. Beat at medium speed until batter is smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
  3. 3 Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool tins on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the tins and cool them completely on a wire rack before decorating.
  4. 4 Frost each cupcake with a thin layer of white vanilla frosting. For best results, refrigerate the cupcakes for 30 minutes to make decorating easier.
  5. 5 Remove cupcakes from the fridge and apply a second layer of white frosting. Fill a piping bag outfitted with a small round tip with chocolate frosting and draw a skull face on the cupcakes: pipe large ovals for the eyes, two dots for the nostrils, and a large "stitched" smile for the mouth.

Nutrition per serving

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