Halloween’s vanilla cupcakes

These Halloween cupcakes are moist, tasty and fun to make. They are decorated with delicious vanilla buttercream, colored in Halloween theme orange and black. Perfect for your next Halloween party.

Cupcakes are very versatile, so this recipe can be used for any occasion, you just play with the colors of the frosting. So I decided this time to make Halloween cupcakes. Look at these adorable, easy and yummy cupcakes in Halloween colors. Orange color for pumpkins and black color for the darker Halloween characters.

So what Halloween really means to your family? Is it just a date in a calendar, or you hang out with friends and family in costumes and visit all the spooky parties ? How about decorations? Did your front yard change to graveyard?

I have started to enjoy Halloween, when I first had my kids. For me, it’s all the baking, spooky decorations and then of course this sweet trick or treat.  Who doesn’t want candies, right? My kids love Halloween as much as I do. We decorate, bake, cook everything in the theme of Halloween, we make so many spooky treats, like gelatin warms in Oreo crumbs mud. We dress up the whole week in different costumes.

And the pumpkin carving,  yes this is actually the biggest competition in our family.  We buy at least 5 pumpkins and everybody carves. Big pumpkins, small pumpkins, any kind of pumpkins.  And I can’t wait to do so this weekend!

Back to these delicious and easy to make vanilla cupcakes. Even my 8-year-old kids are able to get together the cupcake batter. And the decoration, wow every year they get better and better, I think I know where the talent is coming from.

Ingredients for moist vanilla cupcakes

• All-purpose flour
• Granulated sugar
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Soft butter
• Eggs
• Milk
• Vanilla extract

How to make the batter for Halloween cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 170 C / 325 F, middle rack. Prepare muffins tin and line them with paper liners. Sift all-purpose flour into a mixing bowl with sugar, baking powder and baking soda.
2. Add softened butter and eggs. Begin to beat on low speed, then increase the speed to medium for one minute or until it’s well combined. Reduce the speed to low and add warm milk and vanilla extract. Increase the speed to medium and mix until combined.
3. Divide the batter among 12 paper liners (¾ full) and bake at 170C / 325F,  for 20 minutes. Stick in the wooden stick to make sure the cupcakes are well baked. Let them cool off on a wire rack before decorating.

More fun recipes for Halloween

• Marshmallow Frankensteins – Halloween treats
• WITCHES FINGERS FROM PIZZA DOUGH

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Vanilla buttercream

Preparation time: 15 minutes –  servings: 2.5 -3 cups

When you say buttercream, you want fluffy and creamy texture, which smells like vanilla. I love buttercream, but prefer less sweetened, so this version of buttercream is less sweet, then any other recipe you will find on the internet. And, if it is still too sweet for you, then reduce the amount of sugar, as well as liquids.

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup unsalted and softened butter (room temperature)
• 2 1/2 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 3-4 tbsp whole milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• few drops of gel coloring

Instructions:

1. Place the softened butter in a mixing bowl and start to mix on high speed for about 10 minutes.
2. Why that long? Butter will be fluffier and more white. It won’t have this yellowish color.
3. Lower the speed to minimum and start adding half of the quantity of sugar and vanilla extract.
4. Once the half of the sugar is well incorporated, you can add the other half.
5. Now it’s time to add the milk. It is all up to you, how many tablespoons you want to add. I usually put 4 tablespoons of milk, because I like my buttercream more soft.
6. If you are planing coloring your buttercream, now it’s the time to add your food coloring in your milk. Use only gel food coloring, otherwise extra liquid in buttercream could make your buttercream liquid.
7. You may also use any kind of liquid (doesn’t need to me milk), such as orange juice, alcohol, purées, etc.

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