Cauldron Cupcakes

5 from 2 votes

Create these witches' cauldron cupcakes using simple, store-bought ingredients. These Halloween cupcakes will be a hit at any holiday party.

Prep Time10

Cook Time24

Decorating Time30

Total Time1 4

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cupcake, cupcake recipe, halloween, halloween party food, halloween party recipe, halloween recipe, kids halloween recipe

Servings: cupcakes

Calories: 81kcal

Author: Lindsay

Cost: $10

Chocolate cake mix + all ingredients to make it** Most cake mixes yield 24 cupcakes so half the recipe to bake up one dozen instead!
1 stick butter softened
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
¼ tsp Kelly green gel food coloring
Black decorating frosting
Green gel food icing
2-3 oz. green fondant
3-4 oz. dark grey fondant to achieve this shade, knead white and black fondant together or, color white fondant with black gel food coloring
12 pretzel sticks

Prepare cupcakes according to the mix’s directions. Bake in a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
Allow the cupcakes to cool before decorating.
Remove paper liners on cupcakes.
In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar, and milk. These ingredients will make up the buttercream frosting.
Once the buttercream starts to form, add Kelly green gel food coloring.
Beat until ingredients are smooth and form semi-stiff peaks.
Frost the center of each cupcake with green buttercream.
Using Wilton tip #12, pipe out a black frosting border around each cupcake.
Frost the green portion of the cupcake with the green gel food icing, in random squiggles.
Roll out different sized spheres from the green fondant and place a few per cupcake.
Insert two toothpicks on either side of each cupcake. These will act as the support of the cauldrons’ handles.
Roll dark grey fondant into 12 spheres, about 1 inch in size.
Roll out each sphere into a thick strip, about ½ an inch thick and 4 ½ inches long.
Insert one end of a grey fondant strip onto one of the toothpicks and then arch it to meet the other toothpick.
Snap the pretzel sticks in half and insert one into each toothpick.
Serve and enjoy.