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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 22 Minutes |
Ready In: 22 Minutes Servings: 18 |
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Spooky, yummy cupcakes for Halloween. Ingredients:
cake |
1 1/2 cups flour |
1/2 cup cocoa powder |
3/4 teaspoon baking soda |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
1/2 cup butter, room temperature |
1 1/3 cups sugar |
1 teaspoon vanilla |
2 large eggs |
1 cup milk |
frosting |
1/4 cup butter, room temperature |
4 cups confectioner's sugar |
1/3 cup milk |
1 teaspoon vanilla |
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted |
topping |
chocolate chessmen cookies (or wafer cookies) |
candy pumpkins (i use jelly belly) |
deluxe grahams chocolate covered graham crackers |
icing writer |
Directions:
1. Cakes:
2. Preheat oven to 350.
3. Whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together in small bowl; set aside.
4. In large bowl, beat butter until creamy. Add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add flour mixture alternately with milk. Beat until smooth.
5. Divide batter among cupcake pan with liners.
6. Bake 22 minutes.
7. Cool in pans for 5 minutes, then remove to cool completely.
8. Frosting:
9. In a large bowl, beat butter until creamy. Add 1 cup of sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy. Add remaining 3 cups of sugar and the milk. Beat until smooth and creamy. Add vanilla and chocolate. Beat until combined.
10. Assembly:
11. Use icing writer to decorate chocolate covered grahams with RIPs and crosses.
12. Crush chocolate cookies in a large zip-loc bag until they are the consistency of dirt.
13. Frost cupcakes then hold each one over a bowl of the dirt and sprinkle generously.
14. Insert tombstone.
15. Place pumpkin.
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