Scary-Cute Monster Cupcakes!
Home » COOK » Recipes »I made these Scary-Cute Monster Cupcakes for my niece’s sixth birthday recently and wanted to share them with you. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve made any cupcakes, and it was fun to be back in the baking saddle again!
These monstrous cupcakes are so easy to make, and are a great sweet treat for a Halloween party food table, or for a monster-themed birthday party!
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Monster Cupcakes
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You’ve probably seen very similar cupcakes all over Pinterest – it’s exactly where I go the inspiration for them! My niece Sephy had asked if I would make the cake for her birthday party. I was, of course, happy to oblige and was going to make one big monster cake.
However, it’s been a long time since I’ve done any proper baking and I wasn’t too confident of my [rusty] skills – so I suggested I make some cupcakes and she could help me decorate them. And that was exactly what she did!
Her party was at a soft-play venue, but she wanted to have a monster theme. So I made the party invitations for her, which you can see below, and the whole Monster Party Printables Set will be coming to my store soon. Her party bags had a monster twist too!
Halloween comes but once a year, but it lasts the whole month on the Purple Pumpkin Blog with my annual series – Crafty October!
Back in 2012 when I first started this series, I shared a Halloween craft every day in October – which is where the name Crafty October came from. Over the years the series has evolved into more than crafts, with me sharing recipes, free printables, pumpkin carving templates, party ideas and more! I do sometimes sneak in some Autumn themed stuff too!
I do have some new stuff to share this year – yay! – but will also be sharing lots of roundups of ideas as well. I wish I could do it all, but these days, I just can’t… but my vision for this blog is to think up the ideas so that you don’t have to!
You can see all of Crafty October 2018’s posts here.
To make these monster cupcakes, I turned to my tried and trusted vanilla cupcake recipe which I have been using for many years. It is a very simple all-in-one cake batter, so you don’t have to faff around creaming butter and sugar first, and then adding other ingredients.
The butter, caster sugar, self-raising flour, baking powder, eggs, and vanilla extract all go to a bowl and mixed with an electric mixer for a few minutes until well combined and light and fluffy. The cake mixture is then divided between the cupcake cases – this makes at least 24 cupcakes – maybe a few extra (cook’s perk!). I like to use an old fashioned ice-cream scoop to divide the mixture evenly.
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Once the cupcakes are cooked and cooled, it’s time to decorate! I bought a grass tip piping nozzle to create the “fur” of the monsters, as well as some candy googly eyes to bring the monster cupcakes to life!
Sephy got to choose the colours of her monster cupcakes – green (as it’s her favourite colour) as well as red and blue. I took care of the piping, and she took care of the eye placement! Monster cupcake making is a very serious business! I love the concentration on her face!
My piping technique was rather haphazard! I’ve not used this type of nozzle before and wasn’t sure how it would behave. I was in a rush as we had to get the cupcakes decorated to take to the party venue so just did short squeezes of the piping bag for short fur, and a longer squeeze for longer strands.
Sephy similarly had a haphazard method of putting the candy eyes on – some had one big one, some had small eyes, some a mixture. I think their placement, along with my piping gave these monster cupcakes a rather whimsical charm all of their own!
I forgot to mention about the buttercream – it’s basically an even split of soft unsalted butter and icing sugar, with a dash of vanilla and a splash of milk to adjust the consistency for piping. I divided the buttercream into thirds and coloured each with a small amount of food colouring paste.
The full recipe is available just after the next couple of photographs – it can be printed off too.
This is my tried and trusted vanilla cupcake recipe. Makes 24 cupcakes. I use an ice cream scoop to get equal quantities of cake mixture per case. Add 3tbsps of cocoa powder to the cake batter to make chocolate cupcakes
Scary-Cute Monster Cupcakes!
Ingredients
For the cupcakes[br]
For the buttercream icing
Instructions
To make the buttercream
To assemble
Whether they’re for a monster-themed party or Halloween party, I hope you have fun making these monster cupcakes! I would love you to share them with me – follow and tag me on Instagram – @ThePurplePumpkinBlog and use the hashtag #thepurplepumpkinblog, #craftyoctober, and or #tppb so I can see them!
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