The Big Eyed Alien Cupcake
Prepare the vanilla or chocolate cupcake recipe. Spread each cupcake with a thin layer of meringue buttercream tinted with a few drops of green food coloring. For the small eye, attach a mini marshmallow and create a pupil by painting on melted chocolate (microwave 1/2 cup chocolate chips for 1 minute). For the large eye, push the chocolate chip, tip down, into a regular-size marshmallow, then cut Gummi tape for an eyelid. For teeth, place 5 mini marshmallows along the bottom of the cupcake.
Stenciled Chocolate Cupcakes
- 1/2 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup(s) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cup(s) sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup(s) warm water
- 3/4 cup(s) buttermilk
- 3 tablespoon(s) vegetable oil (such as safflower)
- 1 tablespoon(s) pure vanilla extract
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 standard muffin tins with paper liners. Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Mix in eggs, water, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla until smooth, about 3 minutes. Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin tins. Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until tops spring back when lightly touched, about 20 minutes. Let cool in tins on wire racks.
- Before serving, place a stencil atop each cupcake, and dust with confectioners' sugar. Carefully remove stencil.
Mummies Cupcakes
Prepare the vanilla or chocolate cupcake recipe. Spread each cupcake with a thin layer of meringue buttercream. Add jelly beans dotted with melted chocolate for the eyes and red Gummi candy for the mouth. Using a ribbon tip (such as Ateco #44), pipe bands of buttercream.
This is it for today! I will post more cupcake ideas very soon for you to get your Halloween party ready! Happy baking!
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