Nothing is easier to serve at a Halloween party than a big batch of cupcakes.  No cake to cut, no plates or silverware-just grab and go! Here a few fun ideas for decorating Halloween cupcakes:

These monster cupcakes are decorated with candies, marshmallows, mini chocolate chips, and licorice.  The bottom right cupcake’s tentacles are made from strips of Laffy Taffy, and the bottom left is constructed out of gum drops and Good & Plenty licorice candies.  Click on the photo to see a diagram of all the candies used.

These spider cupcakes look like a real chocolate fix!   They are chocolate cupcakes and chocolate icing topped with chocolate sprinkles, red hots for eyes, and black licorice ropes for legs.

Other ideas for decorating Halloween cupcakes:  Candy corn, candy pumpkins, gummy body parts, orange frosting, marshmallow ghosts, etc.

It’s easier and much quicker to make a lot of cupcakes if you have at least two cupcake pans, so you can work on filling one while the other is in the oven.  The pumpkin cupcake pan above turns out 4 jack-o-lantern cupcakes, and it’s available at Oriental Trading Company.  For a non-stick option, try silicone bakeware.

Need more ideas?  Check out our Halloween recipes!