Halloween is a time for terrifying costumes, scary makeup, and scary movies… but also for spooky recipes! We propose these delicious witch cupcakes to surprise everyone on the Day of the Dead. In this article, we teach you the Halloween recipes step by step. You will conquer everyone by the stomach with this chocolate cupcake with caramelized pumpkin seeds. Can there be any recipe that is more typical for October 31?
Witch cupcakes recipe: what ingredients to use
These are the ingredients you need for the cupcake:
- 120 g of wheat flour
- 60g cocoa powder
- 120g butter
- 2 large eggs
- 200g of sugar
- 75 g caramelized pumpkin seeds
- 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar. White vinegar or lemon juice is also fine.
- Some water
- 180ml milk
- half a teaspoon of baking soda
- vanilla extract
- half a teaspoon of yeast or baking powder
- These are the ingredients you need for the decoration.
- colored fondant
- powder coloring
- All kinds of utensils you have at home: rolling pin, edible glue, modeling stick, cutters, brushes, etc.
Halloween recipes: step by step for a scary cupcake
- Mix the apple cider vinegar with the milk to give your witch cupcake an even tastier touch. You will get a rich buttermilk or buttermilk that will have a few lumps when it is ready.
- With a mixer, beat together the butter and sugar on medium speed. When you see that it is already well mixed, increase the speed so that it beats for about 5 minutes.
- Take the eggs and add them to the mixture one by one. Let them mix well. Add a teaspoon of vanilla extract to give it a very special flavor.
- Over our mixture, sift through a fine sieve the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and yeast, that is, the dry ingredients. Try not to leave any lumps. Beat the mixture with the mixer on low speed.
- Add the buttermilk you made at the beginning. You will get a rich mixture.
- Give it an extra touch of Halloween by adding pumpkin seeds to this cream. This ingredient will give your cupcake a crunchy touch, but if you don’t like it you can skip this step.
- Fill the cupcake capsules with this cream up to half, more or less. Otherwise, when the dough rises in the oven it will overflow and take on strange shapes. Shake the tray so that the mass is distributed throughout the capsule.
- Bake your delicious cupcakes for 20 minutes at 165 degrees. The oven should be preheated. Boil water and sugar to make syrup. Add a touch of vanilla extract to make it richer. Paint the cupcakes fresh from the oven with a brush with this syrup so that your cupcake is always juicy.
- When they are ready, take them out and let them cool on a wire rack.
- Only the decoration remains. Let your imagination fly! Use the colored fondant to create the scariest cupcake for Halloween. You can make a witch hat, a pumpkin, bats, and a ghost … Imagination to the power! Use all the ingredients you have at home.
- And ready! You already have the simplest and richest witch cupcake for Halloween. No one will dare to tell you that they don’t like it.