Anyone can go to the store and buy Halloween candy but it’s extra special to make the time to bake Halloween treats, especially when they are thoughtfully and creatively decorated. Cupcakes are also a great co-star to Halloween candy and Halloween party food. Check out these baking tips and cupcake decorating ideas to make your Halloween extra sweet.
Baking Tips: Always use cake flour when baking, never all-purpose flour, which is meant more for breads and cooking than baking. Grease pan but also lay down wax paper. Only bake one tray of goodies at a time and always in the center rack of your oven.
Cake Decorating Ideas:
Spider Cake
Ice a round cake, any flavor or mix or recipe, with chocolate icing or try vanilla with some spooky-colored food dye - orange or green! Fill a pastry tipped bag with a light colored frosting or dark, whatever will complement the color of the iced cake. Pipe spider-web pattern onto the cake. Finish it all off with plastic novelty spiders or plastic spider rings (available for only a few dollars).
Pumpkin Patch
Bake a rectangular cake and top it off with green frosting - vanilla icing plus green food dye, mixed. This can be achieved with a few drops of green food coloring in a can of vanilla frosting. Make grass on top of the cake by making “blades” using your cake-decorating tool. Top the cake with pumpkin candies or a bunch of plastic pumpkins.
Ghost Cake
Bake a cake in layers, any shape. Ice it with a white-white frosting. Top the layer cake with black and orange sprinkles or tiny Halloween-shaped sprinkles. Finish it all with plastic ghosts and/or ghost-shaped candy.
Lollipop Cake
Make chocolate Halloween lollipops by pouring melted chocolate into lollipop molds and placing sticks before the chocolate solidifies in the fridge. Bake any cake or cupcakes in any shape and frost however you like. Remove the set lollipops from molds and place into the cake by using the sticks as anchors.
