Halloween Spooky Eyeball Cupcakes
Submitted by happyzhangbo
Creepy, fun Halloween eyeball cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream frosting, red food coloring veins, and candy eyeballs. A spooky treat kids love to decorate and devour at Halloween parties.
YIELD
18 servingsPREP
10 minCOOK
0 minREADY
40 minThese Halloween eyeball cupcakes are the kind of creepy-cool treat that makes kids shriek with glee before biting right in. Each cupcake gets topped with a smooth dome of vanilla buttercream, then laced with red frosting veins and a candy eyeball center that stares right back at you.
The frosting is a simple butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla combination that pipes like a dream. A quick dip of the knife in hot water gives you that eerily smooth, rounded eyeball shape.
Black jelly bean halves nestled inside round candies create the iris and pupil. The whole effect is wonderfully ghoulish without being too scary for little ones.
Kitchen Tips
- Dip your frosting knife in hot water between cupcakes for the smoothest possible surface.
- Pipe the red veins from the center outward so they radiate naturally, just like real bloodshot eyes.
- Use gel food coloring instead of liquid for a deeper, more vivid red that won’t thin your frosting.
- Chill the frosted cupcakes for 10 minutes before adding the candy eyes so they stick firmly in place.
Variations
- Monster Eyes: Use different colored jelly beans (green, blue, brown) for a whole monster crowd.
- Glow-in-the-Dark: Mix neon food coloring into white frosting for a black-light party effect.
- Mummy Cupcakes: Skip the veins and wrap thin fondant strips across the top, leaving one candy eye peeking out.
Ingredients
Directions
Line cupcake tins with the white papper liners.
Fill the tins two-thirds full with the batter and bake the cupcakes as directed in the recipe (see link below) .
To make the frosting:
In a large bowl, cream the butter until smooth.
Add the powdered sugar, salt, milk, and vanilla and mix until smooth and creamy.
Frost the cupcakes, reserving some of the frosting.
Pile the frosting up a little in the center to make a sort of domed shape, more like an eyeball.
To make the surface smooth, dip a butter or frosting/palette knife in hot water and smooth it over the top of the frosting.
Tint the remaining frosting bright red with the food coloring.
Using the pastry bag, pipe the red frosting on the tops of the cupcake in vein patterns.
Make the veins radiate from the center of the cupcake to make the bloodshot quality more realistic.
Cut the jelly beans in half.
Arrange a jelly bean half into the circle of the round candy.
Now you have and iris and a pupil.
Arrange this in the center of a cupcake.
Continue with the rest of the eyeballs.
