Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- chocolate chip cupcakes (I used my chocolate chip brownie recipe but feel free to use any cupcake recipe you like)
- Oreo cookies for the hats
- ice cream cones for the hats (trim to fit the Oreo cookies)
- baking chocolate (or chocolate of choice, to dip the cones)
- wafer sticks for the legs
- black licorice wheels for the boots
- green icing to act as glue
- yellow icing for the hats
- orange and yellow sprinkles
- 1 cup butter (room temperature)
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. peppermint extract
- 3-4 cups powdered sugar (more might be needed to achieve desired consistency)
- green food coloring (gel)
- hand mixer
- mixing bowl
- spatula
- cooling rack
- thin knife
- cupcake liners
- cupcake pan
Instruction
- Make and bake the cupcakes according to the recipe and cool completely before decorating. If you use my recipe, you may need to cut the baking time in half; just start checking your cupcakes after 20 minutes or so by inserting a toothpick in the middle of the cupcakes. If it comes out almost clean, with just a few moist crumbs, the cupcakes are done.
- Prepare the hats: separate the Oreos and remove the filling with a thin knife; cut ice cones to fit the Oreos; place ice cones on a cooling rack; melt baking chocolate then immediately pour over each cone; leave to completely dry; attach the cones to the Oreo cookies using green icing; decorate with more green and yellow icing.
- Prepare the legs: cut boot shapes from the black gummy candies; attach to the wafer sticks using green icing.
- Make the frosting: Beat butter, vanilla extract and peppermint extract until smooth, approx. 3 minutes. Slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. Add milk if it gets too thick, bit by bit.
- Frost cupcakes then add the legs and the hats.
- Add sprinkles.
- Enjoy your wicked witch Halloween cupcakes with all your ghouls and goblins!
