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What's more Halloween than getting creative while also consuming an ungodly amount of sugar? Thankfully, we have some top notch cupcake ideas to keep your little ones entertained on a budget.
Jack Skellington Pull Apart Cupcakes
Credit: Jungle Creations
You will need:
Method:
1) Push your cupcakes together into a circular shape, trying to avoid big gaps.
2) Pipe the buttercream across the cupcakes, covering them entirely.
3) Using a palette knife smooth the buttercream over till it is a flat surface.
*TOP TIP* To create an even smoother surface put your palette knife in hot water, wipe clean and use this to smooth the buttercream.
4) Mark out the features with a cocktail stick, if you make any mistakes you can smooth it over and try again.
5) Fill in the details with black buttercream to create the hollow (and spooky) features of Jack Skellington.
6) To add even more eye-popping spooky realness to your masterpiece pipe more white buttercream around his eyes and mouth, then smooth out with a hot pallette knife to give a snazzy 3D effect.
7) Get the party to pull apart his face and consume his sugary flesh.
*TOP TIP* White buttercream is tough to make without it looking a bit yellow, brighten your whites by adding a touch of purple food gel colouring, this will balance out the yellow and give you an even whiter, spookier skeleton!
Spellbook Pull Apart Cupcakes
Credit: Jungle Creations
You will need;
Method:
*TOP TIP* To make the book look old and beaten use a knife to mark the corners of the ‘pages’
5) Now the fun part! Using the black and red buttercream pipe spells, words and symbols onto the book. You can do whatever you like; even use inspiration from a famous scarred wizard or a horror movie or two!
6) Devour your creation with as many hands as possible (without accidentally casting any hexes mid-nibble).
Pull Apart Pumpkin
Credit: Jungle Creations
You will need:
19 cupcakes
Orange buttercream in piping bag
Green buttercream in piping bag
Cocktail stick
Palette knife
Method:
IMPORTANT NOTE: You can share these with your children but not required.