Halloween cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, golden caster sugar, dark chocolate, egg, self raising flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, milk, food colouring, butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract, food colouring, smarties, black icing pen, fondant icing, liquorice and icing eyes.
Halloween cupcakes recipe
Course: Halloween cake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 200g butter, softened
- Golden Caster Sugar: 300g golden caster sugar
- Dark Chocolate: 200g dark chocolate, melted
- Egg: 2 eggs
- Self Raising Flour: 250g self raising flour
- Baking Powder: 1/4 tsp baking powder mixed with 100ml boiling water
- Cocoa Powder: 50g cocoa powder
- Milk: 200ml milk
- Food Colouring: 1-2 tsp black food colouring (optional)
- Icing Sugar: 500g icing sugar
- Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Smarties: pack of Smarties
- Black Icing Pen: black icing pen
- Fondant Icing: 1 pack mixed coloured fondant icing (you'll need pink, green, blue and white)
- Liquorice: liquorice and strawberry laces and other sweets such as jelly fangs and liquorice allsorts
- Icing Eyes: icing eyes (see tip, below)
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line two 12-hole cupcake tins with cases. Beat the butter and sugar until the mixture is creamy. Beat in the chocolate and the eggs until combined, then stir in the flour and baking powder, cocoa powder, milk and food colouring, if using. Spoon the mixture evenly between the cupcake cases, levelling the tops.
- Bake for 20 mins or until the cakes are risen and springy to the touch. Cool for 5 mins in the tin, then lift out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the buttercream, beat the butter until soft, then stir in the icing sugar a little at a time. Beat in the vanilla and some black food colouring, then transfer to a piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle.
- For the cat face, pipe the black buttercream in an even swirl onto the cupcake and smooth with a palette knife. Pipe two ears by making a blob for each and pulling the icing bag upwards to a point. Add two eyes on each with Smarties and use the black icing pen to paint a pupil onto each. Add a triangle nose made of pink fondant icing and create whiskers with sweets.
- For the monster faces, cut circles of green and blue fondant to fit the tops of the cupcake and fix them in place with a little buttercream. Add eyes, noses and mouths made of sweets or use icing eyes (see tip, below). For skeletons, cut out shapes with white fondant and fix in place with the buttercream.
