Trick or Treat?

                                                          Happy Halloween everyone!
I am all in the halloween spirit (no pun intended) after just finishing 36 halloween themed cupcakes ready to be delivered this morning.  When asked to make some Halloween cupcakes of 3 different types I knew first of all that the werewolves I had made previously for a friend who is a major twihard (twilight mad fan, incase you didnt know), and team jacob of course (thats the werewolf, not the vampire), were a definate as they are relatively easy to make but the final result is great.  For a detailed guide on how to make werewolf and other fantastic novelty cupcakes I would thoroughly recommend the book 'Hello Cupcake', its available on amazon, and although its an american book and a lot of the ingredients and sweets used for decoration are quite hard to get it is normally pretty easy to find alternatives. 

Here is a quick rough guide from me though for those without the book-

Werewolf cupcakes, How to:
1. Bake 12 chocolate cupcakes.
2. Cut marshmallows out and stick in place as ears and snouts (with sections cut out for mouths), see below-

3. Once your marshmallows are cut out, use a cocktail stick to paint the inside of the mouths red.

4. Make up a batch of chocolate frosting and start piping over the whole wolf in small sections to look like fur. Leave a small section of pink marshmallow showing through in the ears if you wish and leave the open mouth frosting free.

5.Now add 2 smarties or m&ms in the same colour for eyes.  Finally pipe black icing on for pupils in the eyes and to add a nose.

6. Add white icing on the top and bottom of the mouth to look like teeth.

There you have it, spooktacular werewolves ideal for Halloween parties, Twilight Fans or even kids birthday parties.

Now my first batch of halloween cupcakes were finished I now just had to trawl the internet for inspiration for the other two sets of halloween themed cupcakes.  After much deliberation I finally settled on spiders webs, complete with a plastic spider ring on the top of each...

and some marshmallow flavoured Mummies:

Finally, here is a picture of some of the final cupcakes prior to being packaged up ready to be delivered:

Have a Spooktacular Halloween everyone!