Description
These colorful Monster Cupcakes are a fun and festive treat perfect for parties and Halloween. Decorated with vibrant, gel-colored buttercream frosting and candy eyes, these cupcakes turn simple baked goods into playful monsters. Easy to customize with your favorite colors and frosting tips, they’re sure to delight kids and adults alike.
Ingredients
Scale
For Decorating
- 4 cups buttercream frosting
- Gel food colorings (blue, green, orange, purple, and yellow)
- 48 candy eyes
Instructions
- Divide Frosting: Separate the buttercream frosting into several bowls, one bowl for each color you plan to use for decorating your cupcakes.
- Color the Frosting: Add a small dab of gel food coloring to each bowl. Use a toothpick to dip into the gel and then stir the color through the frosting to achieve vibrant hues.
- Prepare Piping Bags: Fill piping bags fitted with your chosen piping tips with the colored frostings. Ensure bags are filled properly for easy application.
- Pipe and Decorate: Pipe the colorful frosting onto the cupcakes to create monster-like textures and shapes. Then, add candy eyes onto the frosting to give each cupcake a playful monster expression.
Notes
- Keep the piping bag twisted at the top to prevent frosting from escaping out.
- Stop periodically and retwist the bag as needed to maintain pressure.
- If frosting becomes too soft due to hand heat, place it in the fridge for a few minutes to firm up.
- Perfect imperfections add character to the monster cupcakes, so don’t stress about flawless decoration.
- Flip candy eyes upside down to create mouths or pipe contrasting frosting for different monster features.
- To swap piping tips, unscrew the coupler cap, remove the tip, replace with a new tip, and screw the cap back on securely.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 250 kcal
- Sugar: 20 g
- Sodium: 100 mg
- Fat: 15 g
- Saturated Fat: 8 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 35 mg
