Easy Halloween Cupcakes Decorating Ideas

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31 Spooktacular Halloween Cupcakes to Make Your Party Extra Sweet

Create a cute and creepy dessert table with these easy cupcake recipes.

Steve Giralt

Halloween is undeniably the spookiest time of the year, but it's also one of the sweetest. Between the trick-or-treating, Halloween cakes, and other Halloween party food ideas, there are more than a few sugar-filled treats to help you ring in October 31 drowning in sugar. But if you're really looking to go all out with your All Hallows' Eve party, the best Halloween cupcakes are sure to please every witch and goblin in sight.

As far as Halloween desserts are concerned, cupcakes are by far the easiest to bake — and stand to make the best impression on your Halloween party-goers. From simple candy corn cupcakes to rich chocolate pumpkin cupcakes, there's a cupcake recipe, decoration, and flavor on this list that will leave everyone feeling spooky and satisfied. These spooktacular Halloween cupcakes can double as gorgeous centerpieces too, adding some extra fun to your Halloween decorations. And when it comes to finding a special treat to enjoy during your Halloween scary movie marathon, you can't do better than these delicious Halloween cupcakes!

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Bat and Moon Cupcakes

Use fondant to create the toppers. Mix up the shapes by using other cookie cutters—try spiders!—to fit your party theme. Roll out black fondant and white fondant separately. Use cookie cutters to create the shapes, then let the fondant dry overnight to stiffen. Frost vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. Perch bats and moons on top.

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Chocolate Voodoo Cupcakes

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Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

A bed of tinted vanilla frosting sets the stage for these jolly pumpkin toppers. They're crafted out of Rice Krispies Treats, covered with orange frosting.

Get the Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes recipe.

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Skeleton Frame Cupcakes

Who could resist a cute cupcake with a skeletal frame comprised of a marshmallow skull and yogurt mini pretzel ribs? Whip up a batch of these bony characters with your favorite cake mix and canned frosting.

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Monster Cupcakes

Make an assortment of multi-colored cupcake monsters, complete with licorice lashes and candy teeth, for your friends to snack on this Halloween.

Get the Monster Cupcakes recipe.

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Witchy Cupcakes

Put a sugar-coated spell on your guests with these bewitching treats, which elevate homemade vanilla cupcakes with a clever combination of chocolaty store-bought goods, frosting, and candy.

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Witch Cupcakes

You'll never know if this witch is nice or evil because you'll be too busy enjoying her neon fondant hat, licorice hair, confetti pupils, and gumdrop nose.

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Pumpkin Patch Pull-Apart Cupcakes

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Bat Cupcake

Plain cupcakes take flight once decorated with blue frosting and sprinkles, dark chocolate wings, and sugar-spun eyes and fangs.

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Chocolate Pumpkin Witch Cupcakes

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Frankenstein and His Bride Cupcakes

You'll feel like you just rose from the dead when you bite into this festive cupcake featuring a bright green Frankenstein lookalike, complete with frosting stitches, a gumdrop nose and ears, and Tootsie Roll and M&M bolts. Don't forget to make him a cupcake that resembles his bride.

Get the Frankenstein Cupcakes recipe.

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Ghost Cupcakes

This friendly ghost is simple to make and easier to enjoy! The fondant ghost is draped over a circus peanut candy, and floats over an orange cupcake with crushed cookies and bone-shaped candies.

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Frankenstein and His Bride Cupcakes

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Ghost Cupcakes

Ghosts are a staple of the holiday and also make an amazing cupcake topper. This dessert looks so skilled but is actually so easy to make it's spooky.

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Wicked Witch Cupcake

A fondant Wicked Witch of the East-like figure dangles deliciously from her perch: a cupcake topped with chocolate frosting and a dusting of crushed chocolate wafer cookies.

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Peanut Butter Bat Cupcakes

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Friendly Ghost Cupcake

There's nothing sinister about these treats — just enticing sweetness, with a fondant-covered doughnut-hole ghost floating on a bed of vanilla frosting and dotted with mint chocolate M&M's.

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Graveyard Cupcake

Recreate this scary cupcake by Georgetown Bakery by using crumbled chocolate cookies for "dirt" and green frosting for "grass."

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Great Pumpkin Cupcake

A magical harvest emerges with just a few tasty tricks: green-tinted vanilla frosting for grass, a glazed doughnut hole dipped in orange frosting for the pumpkin, and strips of candy for the vines and leaves.

Get the Great Pumpkin Cupcake recipe.

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Fang-tastic Dracula Cupcake

Danielle Campoamor Danielle Campoamor is an award-winning freelance writer covering mental health, reproductive justice, abortion access, maternal mental health, politics, and feminist issues.

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