Haunted House Cupcake Cake

If you need a fun Hal­loween party dessert that isn’t too hard to make but cre­ates a big impact, con­sider mak­ing a haunted house cup­cake cake! It’s the per­fect Hal­loween dessert for choco­late lovers. I made it last year for our Hal­loween party & it was a big hit! I had so much going on that I didn’t do step-by-step pho­tos for a tuto­r­ial. So, if you’d like that, then I rec­om­mend you check out this book…

“What’s New, Cup­cake?” is my favorite lit­tle bak­ing book. It has great ideas & designs, com­plete with great instruc­tions for all kinds of dif­fer­ent hol­i­days and themes. I’ve used it for ideas numer­ous times, like the jun­gle ani­mal cup­cakes! The direc­tions for the haunted house in the book are really thor­ough, actu­ally tak­ing up quite a few pages in the book. But, it’s really not too complicated.

Just from the pic­ture above alone, you prob­a­bly have a good idea on how it’s made. Basi­cally, you’ll need your favorite choco­late cup­cakes & choco­late frost­ing (I think I made 2 dozen cup­cakes and ended up using about 18). You’ll stack those up frosted. If you can find choco­late sugar cones, those would be best. I couldn’t find any though, so I frosted reg­u­lar sugar cones to keep every­thing look­ing more uni­form. There was one cone up top & one around the back right (which is help­ing to sup­port that tree). The tomb­stone and win­dow shut­ters are all cut oreos. The win­dows them­selves toot­sie roll pieces flat­tened & drawn on with edi­ble ink. Then, add in some mal­low­creme pump­kins and choco­late sprin­kles (crushed oreos would work great too). The most dif­fi­cult or tedious part about the whole project is mak­ing the choco­late trees. To do that, you’ll need choco­late candy melts/candy coat­ing. Once you’ve melted it accord­ing to the pack­age direc­tions, pipe tree shapes on to wax paper. Before they’ve cooled, sprin­kle with orange & black non­pareils just to give them a lit­tle color. You’ll want to place them in the fridge to harden and be very care­ful when you stick them in. Use some of the items already there (like the cones & oreos) to help hold them up. If that fails, you can always use a tooth­pick. And, that’s pretty much it! It does get a lit­tle messy when you go to eat it, but it’s super fun and totally worth it!

Have YOU been up to any cre­ative Hal­loween baking?

Linked to: *Tater­tots & Jello, *Sun­dae Scoop

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