How to make Halloween Mummy Decorated Cupcakes

These cupcakes are easy to do and will dress up any Halloween party in a snap! They are also great for sending to school for a child's Halloween party or to sell at a bake sale for your favorite charity!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Chocolate Cake mix
• Homemade or store bought white frosting
• Decorator icing or set aside extra frosting for coloring
• food coloring colors in white, black, red, yellow, green, orange
• Cupcake liners
• Cupcake pan

1. Mix your chocolate cake batter as per the instructions on the box for making cupcakes.

2. Line your cupcake trays with the paper liners. Using Halloween designed liners for that added touch or use white, black, orange or red liner colors.

3. Simply bake your cupcakes until done, again use the box instructions for length in cooking. Cool completely on wire rack.

4. Mix your favorite frosting mix or use ready made white frosting. You can tint the white frosting by using a bit of black coloring if you want a darker look or leave them bright white for use with a black light.

5. Add your frosting to a piping bag and use a flat wide tip to pipe the frosting back and forth directly onto the top of the cupcakes in a "bandage" fashion. It is important to leave a section for the eyes of your mummy in the middle or near the top half of the cupcakes.

6. 
   Set your cupcakes under the glow of a blacklight for some spooky fun!

   For the eyes simply use a decorator icing in black by putting on a dot, use a smaller white dot in the center and then either a red, orange, green or any color for the highlight of the eyes.

7. Set your cupcakes directly under a black light for a spooky mummified glow and to highlight an already deliciously fun treat!

Tips & Warnings

• I don't frost the top of my cupcakes before adding the white frosting, I find that the "crackled" top of the chocolate cupcakes gives my mummies a decidedly "old mummy" look.
• You can use Halloween confetti for eyes, nose mouth etc, just stick on top of the cake with a bit of frosting or decorator gel.
• I always set aside a few small bowls of white icing to color as I need to change the colors of the eyes or to give my mummy cupcakes a brownish or grayish look instead of white.
• This is a really easy project for kids to do and they enjoy the frosting process.
• You can also add a sprinkle of white sugar to the top of the cupcakes after decorating with the frosting to give them a bit of added sparkle, especially under the black light.

[Haunted]

on 9/18/2008 Sweet! I am going to try these this Halloween for sure!

[ebnickiea]

on 9/5/2008 sounds fun-thanks!