There are 18 million and one adorable Halloween recipes and ideas on Pinterest. You can make monster toes or eyes, caramel apples, and all sorts of creepy treats, but I always do what’s easy and my kids favorite….Halloween cupcakes! You can dress them up with themed liners for any holiday, buy or make your own sprinkles, add a pick, and voila…creepy yet divine cupcakes! This time I tried something new, I made this recipe from Five Heart Home (love Samantha!) with a few modifications, and topped them with this wicked frosting from Misha’s I wrote about here. The cake has sour cream, which I’ve never really baked with before. They were delicious and oh so fluffy!
Here are the liners I bought, cute little bats huh? I usually make full size and mini’s when I bake, that way the kids aren’t eating too much sugar! And the grown ups can indulge after they go to bed. (Sneaky buggers aren’t we?)
Excuse my nails, need a mani!
And I mixed purple, orange and black sugar for the topping of these SPOOK-tacular Halloween cupcakes.
Honestly, they were heaven out of the oven without the frosting. I loved them the second day though, so I recommend baking them the night before you are going to devour them!
Did I mention how awesome this frosting is? Just four ingredients….recipe below for these easy and delish Halloween cupcakes!
Oh and if you are wondering what my modifications were from this One Bowl Vanilla Cupcake recipe, here you go:
I subbed the butter for 1/2 vegetable oil, used lactose free sour cream, and used 1/4 cup water instead of milk.
Don’t you just love this holiday?
- 2 sticks salted butter (I personally love it with 1 stick unsalted, and 1 salted)
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1-3 tbsp whipping cream
- 1 tsp high quality vanilla (Or clear vanilla to keep the frosting as white as possible!)
- Cream the butter and the sugar, and then add the vanilla whipping cream to your desired consistency!
- If you don't like your frosting as sweet you can cut back the sugar to 1 1/2 to 2 cups. Enjoy!
Cute!! I mean… scary!! 😉
I have a sugar cookie recipe that uses sour cream and they are SO GOOD.
I need that recipe Lauren!
These are so cute! Hahaha, maybe so cute that they are creepy?
Nothing too creepy for my girls unfortunately!
CUTE, Kristen…love the way these turned out! And I’m so glad that the cupcake recipe worked out for you. 🙂 Hope you’re having a great week!
Thanks for the inspiration!
I’m with you. I just want a cupcake (or cookie) over all the creepy fingers. Although I wouldn’t turn down the spooky treats either.
I do want a Creepy Cupcake, though!
Great cupcakes, liners are cute and so are the sprinkles. Thanks for sharing on Oh My Heartsie Girl this week.!!
Love your cupcakes. The colored sugars are perfect!! I need to get a mini muffin tin. That’s a great idea!! Thanks for joining our link-up 🙂
I was pretty sure I knew that frosting and sure enough that’s the recipe I use! Mmmmmm Why did I come for a closer look! Seriously I could eat an entire pan of these babies! I L-O-V-E buttercream!
These look amazing! Can’t wait to try the recipe, I might have a practice run when everyone is out 😉 Thanks for sharing.
These look great! Definitely going to try them soon!
Erika
Little monsters? No, I would be the one eating those yummies, my little monsters are adult monsters & they would still like these too lol Now to see if I can convince one of them to make them 😉
Visiting from Wordless Wednesday at Oh My Heartsie Girl…I can’t wait to try that frosting! It looks so good and sounds really easy, love that it only takes 3 ingredients. My kids would not leave us any of these cupcakes, I’d have to hide these from them. Voted for you on TMB and now following you on Twitter, sharing and pinning this, thanks!
It IS so good! I want your whoopie pies!
Super cute cupcakes and I LOVE buttercream frosting! Thanks for linking them up with us at Foodie Fridays!
These are fantastic! Cupcakes so cute they are spooky!
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Thanks for sharing these yummy halloween cupcakes with us at Dare to Share Saturday! I love when you can make an easy treat that looks amazing and tastes even better. I’ve never tried baking with sour cream either, heck, I rarely cook with sour cream, but I keep seeing its a wonderful way to make cupcakes even better (is that possible?) Plus, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE buttercream frosting, so I am going to have to do some baking today for my little ghouls (or for me after they’ve gone to bed!) I’m sharing these today on my blog feature Five Last Minute Halloween Treats
Thanks so much for sharing these and linking up with us. I hope you’ll come back tonight and share more great treats (after you’re done Trick or Treating of course!)
Hi! Thanks SO much! Heading to your site now!
Love the colour of the sprinkles and wrappers, they look great! Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Have a great day!!
Thanks!