Looking for easy and cute cupcake decorating ideas for a Halloween party? Look no further thanĀ Duncan HinesĀ for these pumpkin cupcakes that can be used for Halloween and all of your fall parties. Ā Ā We’d be willing to bet the kids would love to help with the decorating!
Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes
- 12Ā Duncan HinesĀ® Moist Deluxe SpiceĀ cupcakes baked in orange paper liners
- 24 miniĀ Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe SpiceĀ cupcakes baked in white paper liners
- 2 pieces green licorice twists (e.g. Twizzlers rainbow twists)
- 1 can (16 ounces) plus 1 cupĀ Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla Frosting
- Orange food coloring
- 1 cup orange decorating sugar
- Green licorice laces (e.g. Kellogg’s Fruit Streamers, Watermelon Madness)
- Cut the licorice twists into 3/4 inch pieces to make the pumpkin stems. Tint the vanilla frosting orange with the food coloring. Tint 1/2 cup of the orange frosting a darker shade of orange with more food coloring. Spoon the darker orange frosting into a ziplock bag; set aside.
- Place orange decorating sugar into a shallow bowl. Spread the orange frosting on top of the cupcakes mounding slightly in the center. Starting on the edge, roll the cupcake tops in the sugar to cover completely.
- Use a wooden skewer to mark the ridges in the tops of the cupcakes. Starting in the center or slightly off center, lightly press the skewer over the cupcake tops to create 5 to 6 indentations. Snip a very small corner (1/16 inch) from the bag with the darker orange frosting and pipe lines ofĀ frosting in the indentations on top of the cupcakes. Insert the cut green twists for the stems and add the green laces, trimmed into shorter pieces, to make the tendrils.