Jack O’Lantern Cupcakes
Jack O’Lantern Cupcakes will get your kiddos giggling with their funny faces. This easy Halloween cupcake decorating activity uses simple ingredients (hello, cake mix!) and is super-easy to put together.
Ingredients
- 1 white boxed cake mix, plus any ingredients listed on the box
- 1 can prepared white frosting
- Red, yellow (or orange), and green food coloring
- 6 small Tootsie Rolls, cut in half, for stems
- Edible googly eyes (available at baking stores and online)
- 12 cupcake liners (paper or silicone—you’ll take them off before decorating)
Directions
- Follow the instructions on the cake mix to make a dozen cupcakes, using the instructions on the food coloring to tint the batter orange. Let the cupcakes cool.
- Use a sharp knife to carefully trim the rounded tops off each cupcake, leaving the top completely flat. Remove the cupcake liners.
- Tint one quarter of the frosting green, and the rest orange.
- Spoon orange frosting on one cupcake top, and add another cupcake upside down to start your pumpkin.
- Press one Tootsie Roll into the top of each pumpkin. Use a knife or piping bag to create leaves on top with the green frosting.
- Attach the edible googly eyes with dabs of frosting. Play with how close or far they are from each other, and from the “smile,” to change the facial expressions.
About Jennifer Fujita
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
Artistic style: Easy peasy
Inspiration: A family of good cooks and big eaters!
Happy place: Cooking in my kitchen with the music blaring.
Favourite project or work of art: Any art you can eat