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Witch Cauldron Cupcakes are an easy, spooky Halloween dessert with bubbling green frosting, creepy candy decorations, and a surprise inside. You can make the cupcakes from scratch or use a cake mix, which makes them exactly the kind of fun semi-homemade holiday recipe I love!
Easy Halloween Cupcake Decoration
These cupcakes make me think of my mom. When I was growing up, her favorite Halloween costume was a witch (green face paint, big hat, and the best witch cackle I’ve ever heard). Every time I make these, I think about Halloween at home with her.
The design of these Cauldron Cupcakes is simple but so much fun: the black cupcake liner becomes the cauldron, the green frosting looks like a bubbling witch’s brew filled with candy eyes, bats, bugs, or skeletons. They’re easy enough for anyone to decorate, but they still make a big impact on the dessert table (especially if you also make my Witch Hat Cookies and Witch Hat Cupcakes or my other Halloween Cupcakes).
Supplies Needed for Witch Cauldron Cupcakes
- Cupcake Pans
- Halloween Cupcake Liners
- Frosting – if you don’t want to make your own frosting, I highly recommend their White Decorator Icing!
- Color Right Performance Food Coloring
- Piping Bags and Tips (I used a #12 tip for these cupcakes)
- Sparkle Gel
- Candy Eyes, Isomalt Gems, and Halloween Sprinkles
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Dorothy’s Testing Notes
- Use extra cupcake liners to hold your sprinkles. I don’t like reaching into the jar because my hands get sticky, so I pour some sprinkles into cupcake liners. It makes for easy cleanup too!
- To get the NEON GREEN frosting for my Halloween Cupcakes I used 3 drops of blue and 25 drops of yellow. Having an exact ratio like that makes it foolproof for whipping up more frosting if you run out, and it makes it easy to get the color you want.
Cauldron Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- 24 Chocolate Cupcakes, baked and cooled
- 3 cans (16 ounces each) Wilton Decorator Frosting
- 3 drops Blue Food Coloring
- 25 drops Yellow Food Coloring
- Wilton Green Sparkle Gel
- Sprinkles for decoration
Instructions
- Prepare your frosting: stir together frosting with blue and yellow food coloring. Place in a piping bag fit with a Wilton #12 tip.
- Make surprise inside cupcakes: cut a small portion out of the top of each cupcake. Fill with sprinkles and replace as much of the cut out piece as you can.
- Frost cupcakes with a nice amount of frosting.
- Decoration: add sparkle gel as desired. Add candy eyes and other Halloween sprinkles to decorate your cauldron.
- Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Serve room temperature.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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How to Frost Cauldron Cupcakes
- Cut a hole in the top of the cupcake about the size of a golf ball.
- Fill with sprinkles.
- You may need to cut off some of what you took out so the top fits back over the hole.
- To get a high frosting, pipe some in the center and then swirl around to build it high.
These are so cute. I am doing them for my kids next week.