Monster Cupcake

Decorating Halloween Cupcakes can be fun for everyone especially if you have some creative children, and even if you don’t have children, this is so much fun! This evening was meant to be fun for everyone including me, playing around with some new toys including my new pastry tips. My entire family had a great time helping mix the cake batter and the frosting for this fun Halloween photo shoot. This stuff is easy and I didn’t go to extremes I simply used Betty Crocker spice cake mix, after all it is fall and spice cake in the fall is so yummy. I didn’t do anything special I followed the directions on the box and made about 18 cupcakes – I never seem to get 24 out of one box because I like my cupcakes big so I always fill my muffin tin 2/3 full! Here is a trick my Great Aunt Ruth taught me about baking at high altitude, always add one teaspoon of baking powder to the mix to help it rise – we are a mile high here in Albuquerque (most people don’t know that). What a great tip Aunt Ruth. I always add it to boxed cake mixes and it works great! We had a ball with playing around with toppings, frosting and sprinkles. Great fun was had by all. The frosting was from a can as well. I don’t usually do that because I personally love homemade cream cheese frosting. I was pleasantly surprised that everything tasted delicious.