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    10 Scary Halloween Cupcake Ideas That are So Spooky!

    Published: Oct 1, 2021 · Modified: Jun 13, 2022 by Shem · This post may contain affiliate links

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    Make that Halloween party table extra spooky and even gruesome with these scary Halloween cupcake ideas!

    Halloween is not just for trick or treats, the costumes and the decorations, it's also about the food too. Add these cupcake ideas to your Halloween desserts lineup for a more festive Halloween season.

    You can either make the cupcake from scratch or buy the box kind. The exciting part about these cupcakes is making the topper frosting. You can get as creative as you want to achieve that spooky and gruesome cupcakes.

    Things You Need to Make Scary Halloween Cupcakes

    You will need some baking equipment and cupcake ingredients.

    • Equipment - mixing bowls, whisk, cupcake pans, cupcake decorating kit
    • Ingredients - you will need separate ingredients for the cupcakes and ingredients for the icing/frosting decorations, edible cupcake toppers and edible blood.
      • Cupcake ingredients - cake mix, buttermilk, vegetable oil, eggs, cocoa powder if chocolate flavor or just buy the box kind.
      • Icing ingredients - confectioners sugar, butter, vanilla extract, milk and cocoa powder if chocolate flavor.
      • Edible blood - confectioners sugar, red food coloring, chocolate sauce, water

    10 Scary Halloween Cupcake Ideas

    Checkout each scary Halloween cupcake ideas below for the tutorial.

    1. Glass Shard Halloween Cupcakes

    scary halloween cupcake ideas
    Full Recipe on Foodology Geek

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    Your Halloween party guests will be so delighted with these rich dark chocolate cupcakes filled with Amarena cherries, topped with a cream cheese buttercream and edible sugar glass shards, then decorated with edible blood.

    2. Bloody Eye Cupcakes

    scary halloween cupcake ideas
    Full Recipe on Country Chic Cottage

    These bloody eye cupcakes are so easy to make and you will be the hit of any Halloween party! Start by making your favorite cupcakes. For the actual eyeball, you will need white gumballs and edible food markers. Just draw right on the gumball and add spooky eyes along with blood shot lines.

    3. Bloody Finger Cupcakes

    bloody fingers cupcakes
    Full Recipe on Everyday Eileen

    These cupcakes are absolutely delicious and so easy to make. Spooky Halloween topped cupcakes made with vanilla cupcakes topped with edible fingers and edible blood. Great for a Halloween party.

    4. Ferocious Cupcake

    ferocious cupcakes
    Full Recipe on Say it with Cake

    This scary Halloween cake is made with three layers of chocolate cake, vanilla bean Swiss meringue buttercream, marshmallow fondant, chocolate ganache, and black chocolate melts.

    5. Skeleton Hands Cupcake

    skeleton hands cupcakes
    Full Recipe on Eighteen 25

    Creepy Cupcakes that look like a hand reaching out from under the ground are so easy, fun and festive. The cupcakes are moist and delicious and the skeleton hands are store-bought.

    6. Bloody Red Velvet Cupcakes

    bloddy red velvet cupcakes
    Full Recipe on The Little Epicurean

    Traditional red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and a shocking addition of raspberry coulis. It’s a spooky Halloween treat!

    7. Zombie Cupcakes

    zombie cupcake ideas
    Full Recipe on The Simple Sweet Life

    Scary and unforgettable zombie cupcakes that you can send as party invitations or make them the center of your Halloween dessert line-up, these cupcakes are pure delight and will satisfy even the scariest sweet tooth!

    8. Brain Cupcakes

    scary halloween cupcake ideas
    Full Recipe on Travel Cook Tell

    No skill required to make these brain cupcakes. They may look gross and bloody but they are delicious and fun to make this Halloween!

    9. Spiderweb Cupcakes

    scary halloween cupcake ideas
    Full Recipe on Cookie Named Desire

    These spider web cupcakes are so dark and chocolaty. Easy and fun to make by kids and adults alike.

    10. Monster Strawberry Cupcakes

    scary halloween cupcake ideas
    Full Recipe on Yummy Crumble

    These monster strawberry cupcakes are killers and freaky. They are made of moist strawberry cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and crushed oreo cookies with a frightening strawberry monster.

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