QUICK AND EASY HALLOWEEN CUPCAKES

If you are still looking for inspiration for some home made treats for Halloween, try these quick fondant pumpkins and witches hats!

Firstly make a batch of your favourite cupcakes. I am experimenting with some healthier carrot cake muffins. Sadly they sunk in the middle so frosting them wasn't an easy task! Still sunken cupcakes mean more frosting, right?

Make or buy some frosting and divide in half. Pick 2 Halloween colours and tint the frosting (I used Wilton Kelly Green and Wilton Violet paste colours). Now you can use a palette knife to frost your cupcakes but I wanted fun edges so I used Wilton tip #12 for the green cupcakes and Wilton tip #2D.

As you can see I had a little trouble due to the sunken middles but still all primed and ready for decoration!

Fondant pumpkins

Get a piece of orange fondant and roll it into a ball.

Next take a blade/shell decorating tool or anything that you can make indents with, and carefully indent the ball around the middle, leaving the top and bottom smooth.

Take a small piece of green fondant and fashion a stalk. Take another piece of green fondant and roll out a small sausage shape. Cut this in 2.

Take a toothpick and carefully wrap the green sausage around it. Carefully slide off and you will have the vines for your pumpkin.

Fix them to the top of your pumpkin and finish off with the stalk.

I was able to just lightly press these down but you can use a little edible glue or water to fix in place.

Pop onto your cupcake and it's done!

Witches Hats

Once you have finished your pumpkins, it's time to move onto the witches hats. I have done these very quickly, you could do these much neater than I but they show you what can be done in just an hour or 2.

Take a large piece of black fondant and roll into a fat sausage shape.

Basically you are going to use your fingers to manipulate the sausage into a hat shape. I started about half way down and began to push the fondant down and out to make the base of the hat. I then worked the top half into a cone type shape with a pointed end for the top of the hat. This makes a crumpled looking hat, slightly uneven, but more in keeping with a ghastly witch!

Next I got some orange fondant, rolled it out and cut it into strips. These are going to be used to make a ribbon for your hat. Take one strip and wrap it around the base. Then take 3 smaller strips, form into a bow and attach to the front. Job done!

Cutting strips.

2 strips form the outside of the bows while a 3rd strip is placed over the other 2 to finish it off.

There you have it, quick and easy and very festive! Happy Halloween!