How to make and decorate 4 different Halloween Monster Cupcakes

Step 1: Baking

Preheat the oven to 375 Degrees

Try to have all the ingredients at room temperature

In Bowl 1 ...

Sift then measure 3 1/2 cups of Cake Flour

Resift twice with 4 teaspoons of Baking Powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of Salt

In Bowl 2 (make sure it's big) ...

Cream well 1 cup of Butter

Slowly add 2 cups of sifted Powdered Sugar

In Bowl 3 ...

7 Eggs or 8 Egg whites whipped

Add Bowl 1 in 3 parts, to Bowl 2 , alternately with 1 cup of Milk

Stir until smooth then add 1 teaspoon of Vanilla or 1/4 Almond Extract

Then add Bowl 3

Put into cupcake tins (don't forget papers or butter sprays), and bake for 25 minutes

Yields about 24 cupcakes

Step 2: Frosting

Removing the desired amounts into 3 separate bowls

Add butter milk or milk, and stir until you get a desired texture (soft/not runny)

Then add gel food coloring of the desired color (in this case green, purple, white 'not necessary ') to each separate bowl

Then place each into separate frosting bags with the respective tips (in this case simple for white, star for purple, and leaf tip for green)

All to your discretion but if you would like to know

The Purple monster used...

The star tip with purple frosting

Cover the cupcake then make a stand like structure in the back

Place the eye from the decorating box on it

Then draw a smile with the simple tipped bag

The Skeleton used...

All white simple tipped to cover it

2 skeleton decorations for eyes

A gravestone decoration for the nose

And the colored bones for a mouth

The Witch used...

Simple tipped white around the edge

Leaf tipped flattened green in the middle

Heightened green in the middle with a white simple tip for the nose

2 white dots for eyes

And 5 witches fingers on each side from the decorations box on the side with the thumb one being flipped the opposite way for a smoothing affect

And the Mummy used...

Green or White frosting with a leaf tip for your decorating bag

Then eyes and a "bone tie" in the appropriate places