It’s hard to imagine Halloween without original dishes. For the holiday you can cook various treats, decorated with cobwebs, spiders, bats and so on. Various cupcakes and pastries look very original. Halloween cupcakes are a delicious and beautiful treat that will appeal not only to children but also to adults.
Classic recipe
So how to make a cupcake? Halloween is a theme holiday. Therefore, all dishes should be original decorated. To prepare the test for cupcakes you will need:
- 150 grams of butter;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 100 milliliters of milk;
- 5 tablespoons of cocoa;
- 2 eggs;
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- 225 grams of flour.
To prepare the cream, you need:
- 5 tablespoons of sour cream, fat content in 20%;
- 4 tablespoons of cocoa;
- 1 tablespoon butter;
- 4 tablespoons of sugar.
For decoration:
- Figures from mastic.
- Confectionery sprinkle.
Cooking process
Halloween cupcakes are made very simple. First you need to knead the dough. To do this, pour milk into a deep container and add sugar, cocoa and butter to it. All components must be mixed and then brought to a boil. The resulting mass should be cooled and mixed with eggs. In the resulting composition, you need to gradually introduce flour and baking powder. Now you can knead the dough.
The molds in which the cupcakes will be baked must be carefully lubricated with oil. After that, they can be filled with 2/3 dough. Bake refreshments need for 25 minutes in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C.
To prepare the cream, just mix in one container cocoa, butter, sugar and sour cream. All components must be placed on a fire and brought to a boil. After this, the resulting mass must be cooled.
Halloween cupcakes are almost ready. It remains to decorate them. To do this, you can apply cream to them using a pastry bag. Finished treats are also decorated with confectionery sprinkles or with original figures from mastic.
Spider web decoration
To prepare the glaze you will need:
- 200 grams of butter;
- 1 tablespoon of condensed milk;
- ¼ cup powdered sugar;
- vanilla to taste.
Halloween cupcake decoration should be not only beautiful, but also original. You can make a spider web. To prepare the glaze, mix vanilla, powdered sugar, condensed milk and butter in a container. The mass should be put on fire and, bringing to a boil, cook for about five minutes. The resulting composition should be cooled and whipped.
Ready icing should cover the finished cupcakes. Now you can decorate them with a spider web. For this, it is better to use chocolate. The tiles can be melted in the microwave or in a water bath. Each cupcake should be decorated with a cobweb. You can draw it directly on the glaze.
You can also use cling film. Draw a cobweb on it and put everything in the refrigerator. When the chocolate hardens, it should be separated carefully from the film. That's all the cobwebs are ready. It remains to decorate cupcakes with them. Cobwebs can be made of white chocolate. On dark fondant, they will look more impressive. You can also draw cobwebs immediately with spiders.
Finally
Halloween cupcakes can be decorated in a variety of ways. The most common option is to use mastic. With its help, original bats, spiders, skulls and so on are created. In addition, icing made from dark chocolate or white is used to decorate a cupcake . If desired, a little orange food coloring is added to the icing. The result is beautiful cupcakes. With chocolate, you can draw almost any pattern.