Halloween Witch Cupcakes

20 Minutes Total
24 Servings

The witches have fallen off their broomsticks! Make and bake these fun cupcakes for a super Halloween treat!

Ingredient List

Cupcake
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 1 box Betty Crocker™ Devil’s Food Cake Mix
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 120ml vegetable oil
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 230ml water
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 3 medium free range eggs
Decoration
  • Small check mark in a circle icon Orange food colouring gel or paste
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 1 tub Betty Crocker™ Velvety Vanilla Icing
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 8 crème-filled chocolate sandwich biscuits, crème filling discarded and biscuits roughly crushed
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 300g chocolate flavoured ready to roll icing
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 48 edible white candy sticks
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 9 fizzy strawberry straws
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 24 milk chocolate coated sticks (see tip)

Preparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C for fan assisted ovens)/Gas Mark 4. Line 2 x 12-hole muffin trays with paper cupcake cases. Make, bake and cool the cake mix as directed for cupcakes on the box.
  2. In a bowl add enough orange food colouring to the vanilla icing to give a bright orange colour. Using a small palette knife, spread the icing on the top of the cupcakes. Pile some of the crushed biscuits to resemble earth in the centre of each cupcake.
  3. Shape 48 shoes out of some of the chocolate ready to roll icing and press 1 shoe onto the end of each candy stick. Insert 2 candy stick ‘legs’ into each cupcake.
  4. Shape 24 hats from the rest of the ready to roll icing. Cut 3 strawberry straws in half, then cut each in half lengthways into 4 thin strips to make 24 strips in total and wrap one around each hat. Position the hats on the cupcakes.
  5. Cut the remaining strawberry straws into 24 x 4 cm long pieces, then cut small slits into each piece without cutting all the way through to create the broom bristles. Push each one onto the end of a chocolate coated stick for broomsticks and place on the cupcakes.

Tips

  • You can use pretzel sticks instead of chocolate coated sticks for the broomsticks.
  • Pop a little sweet under each witches’ hat for a spooky extra surprise!