Are you ready for a spook-tacular halloween?! (See what I did there? Sorry..) We do love halloween cupcakes, they give us a chance to embrace our love of kitsch decorations, gaudy colours and icing that turns your teeth black. Hoorah!

This year, here’s something a little bit different from the normal sugarpaste decorations. We became really fond of these little meringue ghosts when we’d made them, they seemed to each have a bit of personality. We particularly liked seeing them all in their rogues line up. Not so much that we didn’t then bite their heads off. Well, it is halloween after all.

You will need:

Cupcakes (baked in our orange, black or green cases looks fab)
Buttercream (we coloured ours orange using Sugarflair Tangerine)
Angled palette knife (you can buy yours here)
Piping bags (you can buy yours here)
Writing tip no 2 (you can buy yours here)
Royal icing coloured black

50g Egg whites (we used 2 Chicks, it’s amazing!)
100g Caster sugar
Baking parchment (NOT greaseproof paper, this is not the same as baking parchment/baking paper!)
Baking sheet

1. Whisk your egg whites until they are in soft peaks.

2. Add your sugar about half at a time, whisking really well.

3. Keep whisking until the meringue is really stiff and glossy. Looks gorgeous doesn’t it?

4. Put this into a piping bag with the tip snipped off.

5. Attach some baking parchment to a baking sheet using a couple of dots of the meringue. This is a really useful tip as stops the paper moving around!

6. Pipe little ghoul shapes by squeezing the bag, holding until the base size is what you want and gradually raising the bag.

7. Bake at 150C for about 30 minutes.

8. Switch the oven off and leave the oven door ajar whilst they cool for another 30 minutes.

9. When they are completely cold, pipe on black royal icing eyes, using your number 2 piping tip.

10. Using a palette knife, cover your cupcakes with buttercream icing and pipe spooky sayings on some using your black royal icing and sit your ghostly meringues on the others.

What are you baking for halloween? How are you celebrating? Any other spooky food ideas? Have a brilliant halloween!

Lots of cupcake love
Sarah x

Halloween is just around the corner so to make your haunting cupcake collection complete we thought we’d show you how to make our favourite sugarpaste pumpkin!

You’ll need:

Sugarpaste coloured orange (we like Sugarflair Gel Colour in Tangerine/Apricot)
Sugarpaste coloured green (we used a mixture of Sugarflair Gel Colour in Holly Green and Party Green)
CMC Powder
Palette Knife
Rolling Pin
Daisy Plunger Cutter
Ball Tool
Edible Glue
Paintbrush

1. Mix a little CMC powder in with both your orange and green sugarpaste to stiffen it up and help it hold its pumpkin shape better.

2. Take your orange sugarpaste and in the palm of your hand, roll it into a ball.

3. Place it onto a flat surface and gently squash it down a little to make your pumpkin nice and plump.

4. Using your palette knife carefully mark the sides of your pumpkin to create indents around it, leaving the top side of the pumpkin smooth.

5. Put your pumpkin to one side and roll out your green sugar paste. Cut out your daisy shape and put to one side.

6. Using a peanut sized amount of green sugar paste create your stalk, gently rolling it into a thin sausage shape, with one end slightly thicker than the other. Curl the thinner end around to give it a bit of character and tidy up the thicker end by trimming with your palette knife.

7. Now glue your daisy to the top of your pumpkin.

8. Using the smaller end of your ball tool, make an indent in the centre of your daisy, large enough to hold your stalk.

9. Brush with a little bit of glue and add your stalk.

10. Add to cupcakes to wow your friends at any ghoulish gathering of ghosts and ghouls.

Happy Halloween!

Jenny x

Halloween is nearly here! It’s such a brilliant cupcake decorating occasion. We love an excuse to make some grizzly, gruesome cupcakes which hardly ever see the light of day during the other 364 days of the year.

We thought we’d shared the ghoulish cupcake love and show you how to make our favourite little cupcake ghosts.

You’ll need:

- Cupcakes
- Buttercream
- Angled palette knife
- Piping bags
- Piping nozzle (we used a Wilton 1M but it doesn’t really matter too much as the piped part it won’t be seen.)
- Sugarpaste
- Large circle cutter
- Edible pen

1. Top your cupcake with flat buttercream icing using the angled palette knife.

2. Pipe a tall, slim swirl in the centre of the cupcake.

3. Roll out your white sugarpaste and cut a large circle out.

4. Use the end of your rolling pin to shape the circle into a ghostly shape. Pinch the ‘skirt’ to give it shape.

5. Sit the ghost on top of your buttercream swirl and give him some eyes using your edible pen.

The products we used are available from our online shop.

Enjoy your spooky cupcakes! x