Gruesome Halloween Cupcakes

I'm attending a Halloween scary movie night on Halloween so I thought it would be fun to bring some adult themed Halloween cupcakes there. Scary movies definitely scare me, but scary cupcakes seemed exciting to make. I found some awesome gruesome designs with some 'blood' and body parts.  I made all the decorations out of fondant and used edible red gel for the blood.

I made a butcher knife, a finger and an eyeball... all covered in bloooood.  Happy Halloween!

Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween is such a fun time for cupcake decorating. There are so many designs out there that range from cute to gruesome and they are all fun to make.  For this set of cupcakes, my friend asked me to make cute Halloween cupcakes.  They were for a United Way fundraiser at her sister's office and all 48 cupcakes sold out in 2 hours!

I made the following:

1. Pumpkin: pumpkin spice cupcake with vanilla frosting
2. Vampire face: chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting for the face and chocolate frosting for the hair
3. Mummy face: red velvet with cream cheese
4. Owl face: vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting (my favorite design!)

Zigby Cupcakes

I was asked to make Zigby cupcakes for a friend's daughter's birthday.  Zigby, it turns out, is a cute zebra, the main character of a Treehouse TV show for kids.  The show is about Zigby and his friends. So for decoration, I decided to do a mix of a Zigby face out of fondant and also some paper toppers with Zigby and friends. My friend's daughter also likes Dora, so I also made some Dora paper toppers too.

The cupcakes were my famous red velvet with white chocolate cream cheese.

Baby Shower Cupcakes!

My friend asked me to make cupcakes for a baby shower she was organizing, with the baby accessories theme. These baby accessories are hand made, out of melted chocolate, and are placed on fondant disks.

The cupcakes were pumpkin spice cupcakes with maple cream cheese buttercream, topped with a fondant baby accessories topper.  The pistachio cupcakes have crushed pistachios in the cake part, and finely grounded pistachios in the buttercream.  The pistachios were packaged in individual boxes and were for take home gifts.