Halloween Cupcakes : Spooky Recipe Courtesy of Silver Spoon Cakecraft

Halloween Cupcakes

Makes 18

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 25 minutes

Decoration time: 1 hour

Ingredients :

For the cupcakes:

250g unsalted butter, softened

250g Billington’s golden caster sugar

250g Allinson Nature Friendly self-raising white flour

1tsp baking powder

4 eggs

For the decorations:

Apricot jam

Silver Spoon Cakecraft Ready Rolled White Icing

1 tsp Silver Spoon Cakecraft Natural Vanilla Extract

Silver Spoon Cakecraft Food Colours in Natural Red,

Natural Yellow, Natural Black and Green

Silver Spoon Cakecraft Writing Icing

Silver Spoon Cakecraft Designer Icing in Red, Green, Black and White

Silver Spoon Cakecraft Chocolate Letters and Numbers

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/ fan oven 150°C / 325°F / Gas mark 3

Line muffin trays with 18 Cupcake papers

Place all the cupcake ingredients into a mixing bowl. Beat together, preferably with an electric

mixer until the mixture is pale and fluffy

Spoon the mixture into the cupcake papers and bake for 20 minutes until golden brown

Remove from the oven and allow to cool for five minutes in the tin, before cooling completely on

a wire rack. Once cold, you can start getting scary…

Boo!

Bring the apricot jam to simmer in a small pan. Using a pastry brush, brush the exposed cake with

the jam.

Take a walnut-sized piece of ready rolled white icing and add a few drops of natural black food

colouring. Mix and knead until you get a marbled effect. Flatten slightly and place over the top of

the cup cake. Top with chocolate letters.

Devil Cake

Knead a tube of red designer icing fitted with the rosette nozzle. Pipe the icing in a swirl onto the

cake. Top with the ready rolled white icing coloured with the natural black food colour, shaped

into horns.

Spider’s Web

Pipe the cake with black designer icing and smooth with a slightly damp knife. Using a tube of

white writing icing starting at the centre of the cake, ice circles of white icing (do not worry if they

are wobbly!). Using a cocktail stick, draw through the icing from the centre to the edge of the

cake. Continue round the cake. Once you have finished, you will have a spider’s web design.

Monster

Pipe the cake with green designer icing and smooth with a slightly damp knife. Take a piece of

the ready rolled white icing coloured black with the natural black food colour, flattened and cut

into eyes and hair. Finish decorating by drawing on a mouth with the red writing icing.

Eyeball

Pipe the cake with white designer icing and smooth with a slightly damp knife. Draw veins with the

red writing icing and top with either an edible or plastic eyeball shape.

Ghost

Bring the apricot jam to the boil in a small pan and using a pastry brush, brush the cake all over

with the jam. Place a small ball of ready rolled white icing on top of the cup cake. Cut ready

rolled white icing into a square measuring about 10cm and lay over the cake on top of the ball.

Finish decorating by drawing on eyes and mouth with black writing icing.
 



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