Halloween presents a great opportunity for specially decorated cupcakes for parties or just for fun. Themed cupcake decorations can be as easy or as complicated as you like depending on your level of skill, so in this post I’ve detailed a few quick and easy ideas for spooky treats. Some of which I will be posting tutorials for in the next couple of days. All of these ideas are great for children to try.
Keeping it simple
If you don’t have much time to decorate cakes the quickest way to just to make a simple water icing and throw some sprinkles at them. Cakes decorated in this way can easily be matched to an event or theme by matching the sprinkles and the icing colour to the event. So for Halloween try making icing in some spooky and unusual colours, bright green or black for example. Orange and black strands are a popular choice for sprinkles but I really like using little bats and ghosts. Oh and a touch of edible glitter is always fun! Another easy way to make creepy cakes is to colour the cake mixture, normally when I do this I make pink cakes but for Halloween why not try green or blue?
If you don’t have much time to decorate cakes the quickest way to just to make a simple water icing and throw some sprinkles at them. Cakes decorated in this way can easily be matched to an event or theme by matching the sprinkles and the icing colour to the event. So for Halloween try making icing in some spooky and unusual colours, bright green or black for example. Orange and black strands are a popular choice for sprinkles but I really like using little bats and ghosts. Oh and a touch of edible glitter is always fun! Another easy way to make creepy cakes is to colour the cake mixture, normally when I do this I make pink cakes but for Halloween why not try green or blue?
Also don’t forget, even the simplest cake can be made to match a theme by using special cake cases, shops are full of Halloween inspired designs right now so shop around to find your favourite!
Vampire blood cakes
These are also very simple but can look pretty cool. Simply cover any flavour of cake (Red Velvet works a treat) with white icing or buttercream, then make a really runny red icing and dribble it over.
These are also very simple but can look pretty cool. Simply cover any flavour of cake (Red Velvet works a treat) with white icing or buttercream, then make a really runny red icing and dribble it over.
Ghosts
These are taken from the book “A Zombie Ate My Cupcake” and are very effective (book review coming soon). Starting with whatever cake flavour you prefer make an Italian or Swiss meringue then put a small blob of meringue on each cake, top with a marshmallow then spoon more meringue on top. Use the back of a spoon to shape it into a ghost shape, let it cool then add facial features with an icing pen.
These are taken from the book “A Zombie Ate My Cupcake” and are very effective (book review coming soon). Starting with whatever cake flavour you prefer make an Italian or Swiss meringue then put a small blob of meringue on each cake, top with a marshmallow then spoon more meringue on top. Use the back of a spoon to shape it into a ghost shape, let it cool then add facial features with an icing pen.
Gravestones
Again start with any flavour cake you want and a batch of chocolate biscuits. Try and make your biscuits gravestone shaped, rectangles and crosses also work well (at this time of year it’s fairly easy to find biscuit cutters in these shapes). Use a piping bag or an icing pen to write messages onto the biscuits, the classic RIP always works well! To assemble the cakes cover them with green buttercream (not to bright, try and make a grassy green) and stick a biscuit into the top of each.
Optional extra: to suggest a fresh grave dust coco powder or chocolate biscuit crumbs (Oreo cookies crushed in a food processor are perfect for this) in front of each biscuit and add a few icing flowers.
Again start with any flavour cake you want and a batch of chocolate biscuits. Try and make your biscuits gravestone shaped, rectangles and crosses also work well (at this time of year it’s fairly easy to find biscuit cutters in these shapes). Use a piping bag or an icing pen to write messages onto the biscuits, the classic RIP always works well! To assemble the cakes cover them with green buttercream (not to bright, try and make a grassy green) and stick a biscuit into the top of each.
Optional extra: to suggest a fresh grave dust coco powder or chocolate biscuit crumbs (Oreo cookies crushed in a food processor are perfect for this) in front of each biscuit and add a few icing flowers.
Spider websCover any flavour of cake with black buttercream or water icing, then using either an icing pen or piping bag; ice a spider web pattern onto each cake. Add a touch of white edible glitter because why not?
So there you have it a few quick and easy decorating ideas for Halloween cakes, stay tuned for some in depth decorating tutorials for a couple of these and some other simple designs. If you have any other ideas for simple cake designs I’d love to hear them!
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