Halloween Cupcakes (Sugar Free)

Cook/Prep Time

Prep time: 8 min

Cook time: 20 min

Ready in: 28 min

Yields: 12 Regular sized Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 teaspoon Baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Vinegar, (ADD LAST)
• 1 1/2 Cups Flour
• 1/2 cup Melted Butter, (Can Sub - Veg Oil)
• 2/3 cup Agave
• 2/3 cup Milk, (Can sub with milk substitute)
• 1/3 cup Cocoa powder

Baking Instructions

1. As always, Preheat your oven to 350 Degrees.
2. Get your paper liners and/or butter grease your pans if your not using silicone bake trays.
3. Mix Batter until it is smooth and bubbly with air, your mix should be free of nasty flour clumps and ready to pour into your molds within 4 minutes by hand or about 60 seconds by machine (on high)

Whip up some spooky frosting!

You can also make your own frosting, and use some all natural food dye to add those creepy colors kids crave! Googly eyes, and black licorice go a long way for some spooky, tasty halloween treats that are sure to satisfy and school function, home party or even at the office.
Who needs an excuse for sugar free cupcakes :)
All you need to whip up your own frosting (Icing, Ganache)
1/4 Cup of Heavy cream (per color)
3 Oz Of Butter (not melted)
2 Oz O Unsweetened Shaved Bulk Chocolate
and then a third cup of agave

Then after heating the cream and agave together, stirring often until it comes to a boil.
shut off the heat source and add your shaved chocolate to the mix
stirring until the chocolate is completely melted.
This is where the fun begins, pour your chocolate cream mix into a bowl, then add in 1 tbsp of the unmelted butter at a time and work it into the mix until the icing becomes creamy
Repeat process for each color of frosting

Marshmallows make great eyes when dotted with mini chocolate chips (can use unsweetened)

Try this great tip:

By adding a little honey to the mix you can make frosting that stays in the shape you cast it, in other words spiders legs and squid's tentacles stay where you put them and don't fall apart like most store bought icing's.
Honey is a great natural sweetener for pies, cakes, teas and almost everything you use sugar for.
Substituting sugar and eggs is a great way to share share with other family members and seniors who may not be able to handle sugar or have allergies to those types of foods.
(Remember add the wet mix to the dry mix, the vinegar and baking soda are used in place of eggs for those with egg allergies, you can replace them with 2 egg whites from large eggs if you wish).





                                                        Happy Halloween from @Halloween fun.

Halloween Cupcakes - Cupcake Decorating Ideas

 

Pumpkin Cupcakes

If you need a batch of quick and easy cupcakes for a Halloween party, this pumpkin design is the way to go. No need to call a bakery when you can whip up these simple treats in no time. Below you will find a list of supplies and directions for how to decorate a batch of pumpkin cupcakes.

Supplies:

• Cake mix
• Cupcake wrappers
• Orange colored icing
• Green gum drops
• Decorator tool or plastic bag

Directions:

1. Bake your desired flavor of cake mix in the oven according to the directions on the package. Let cool before applying the icing.
2. Make a batch of orange colored buttercream icing. With regular food coloring, you will need to add 3 drops of yellow and 2 drops of red. Repeat the drops if you desire a brighter shade of orange.
3. Fill the decorator tool or plastic bag with the orange icing and swirl around each cupcake. When you reach the middle, continue to squeeze out the icing and slowly lift up to create the pumpkin shape. Top the center of each cupcake with a green gum drop and enjoy!

Halloween cupcakes. Here's a simple spiderweb.

There are tons of different ways to frost/decorate Halloween cupcakes. Here's a simple spiderweb:

**I have found that it is so much easier for me to make these at the same time I make the Eyeball pops. With the cake pop pan that I use, I always have left over batter. Why waste it, right? A better use for the batter are these easy Halloween cupcakes.

If you are making these as a stand alone Halloween goody, just use a regular box of cake mix and follow the instructions on the box. You can dress them up inside by adding orange and black sprinkles to the batter before baking! When you're ready to frost, here's how:

How To Create A Spiderweb In Your Cupcake Frosting:

1. Use a rubber or silicone spatula to spread 1 to 1.5 tbs of white frosting onto the cupcake (it doesn't need to be perfect)
2. Using the black decorating gel, make three circles from small to large on the surface
3. Starting from the center, drag the tip of a butter knife through the rings and frosting in a straight line all the way out to the edge to create the spiderweb shape. I don't use the serrated (cutting) side for this.
4. Make about 8 lines, and this is what your result will look like.

Up first- Cake Pop Eyeballs For the cakes.

• Cake Pop eyeballs- here’s lookin’ at you, kid

Up first- Cake Pop Eyeballs

For the cakes, you will need:

• 1 package cake mix, any flavor you like
• 1 cake pop pan (I use the kind that clips together. I know nothing about the automatic kind, sorry)
• non-stick spray with flour. I use Baker's Joy, but Pam has one with flour in it also
• 1 3.9 oz package instant pudding mix
• milk, oil, and eggs

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. The pop pan directions say 350, but my pan is dark and the pops burn if the temperature is that high.
2. To make the best tasting cake pops, if your cake mix calls for water, use milk, but only half of the amount called for. For example, if the cake directions say: 1 and 1/2 cups water, you would use 3/4 cup milk. Also add one additional egg. If the recipe calls for 3 eggs, use 4. These are the specific instructions that came with my cake pop pan, and really provides the best results.
3. In a large bowl, beat together the cake mix, instant pudding powder, eggs, oil, and milk; 30 seconds on low, 2 minutes on medium. This is going to be a very thick batter. Just be glad you aren't whisking it :)
4. Liberally spray the insides of both cake pop pans with the non-stick flour spray. Also spray the outside of the top pan, because the batter will rise through the holes and spraying it will REALLY aid in clean up. Trust me.
5. Fill your pans according to the directions, clip together, and put it in the oven for 25 minutes.
6. The batter will definitely bubble out of the holes in the top, so don't be alarmed when you see cake volcanoes in your oven. The scraps are perfectly edible. Yum yum.
7. Let the pan cool off for a few minutes before removing the cakes.
8. The cakes need to cool completely before they are frosted, usually an hour is fine.