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Chocolate cupcakes topped with beautiful multi-colored swirls of our super delicious homemade buttercream frosting in the spookiest colors we could imagine combine to make these Bewitched Halloween Cupcakes the perfect cupcake choice for your Halloween celebration.

Closeup on five Bewitched Halloween Cupcakes sitting on a white table surrounded by toy spiders, black towel and a cupcake pan filled with chocolate cupcakes.

If you are looking for an easy-to-make Halloween cupcake that will make a big impression at your Halloween Party, you’ve come to the right place. Chocolate cupcakes topped with beautiful multi-colored swirls of our super delicious homemade buttercream frosting in the spookiest colors we could imagine combine to make these Bewitched Halloween Cupcakes the perfect cupcake choice for your Halloween celebration.

Ingredients You Will Need

All the ingredients you will need to make Bewitched Halloween Cupcakes including cupcakes, buttercream frosting, food coloring and cupcake liners.

How to Make the Cupcakes

Closeup on a dozen chocolate cupcakes sitting on a white table in front of a cupcake tin and cupcake liners.

Step 1: Make a batch of cupcakes.  You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe.  We used chocolate but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too.

How to Make the Buttercream Frosting

Clear glass bowl filled with buttercream frosting sitting next to butter, a decorating bag filled with frosting and a black and white towel.

Step 2: The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe.   It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here.  One batch of frosting will be enough to frost 12 cupcakes.  If you used a boxed cake mix, you should have about 18 cupcakes and will need to double the frosting recipe.  Once you have the frosting made, split it into thirds.  Because the three layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows:

Purple:  1 cup
Green: 3/4 cups
Black: 1/2 cup

How to Color the Frosting

Collage image showing how to make buttercream frosting purple, green and black.

Now it is time to tint the frosting. We like the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.  It is concentrated and you can get a bright color without having to use too much food coloring.  Here are the formulas we used for our Halloween frosting colors:

Purple: 5 drops of Pink Food Coloring and 2 drops of Blue Food Coloring
Green: 6 drops of Yellow Food Coloring and 1 drop of Blue Food Coloring
Black: 6 drops of Black Food Coloring

Putting It All Together

Chocolate Cupcake sitting on a white table surrounded by a cupcake pan filled with cupcakes and decorating bags filled with purple, green and black frosting.

Step 4: Load the three colors of frosting into separate decorating bags with a Wilton 1M Open Star Decorating Tip and gather up your cupcakes!

Collage image showing the steps for creating the Frosting Swirl out of purple, green and black buttercream frosting.

Step 5:  For each Halloween Cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting.  Purple on the bottom, then green, and finally black.
Step 6:  With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of purple frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
Step 7:  Next apply another 1 1/2 circles of green frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the purple frosting layer as shown in the picture above.
Step 8: Finally, with the black frosting, add a third circle but this time finish with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.

You can watch a video of how to make a frosting swirl like this in our How to Frost Cupcakes post.

Closeup on five Bewitched Halloween Cupcakes sitting on a white table surround by toy spiders and sprinkles.

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Bewitched Halloween Cupcakes

Yield 18 cupcakes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 38 minutes

Chocolate cupcakes topped with beautiful multi-colored swirls of our super delicious homemade buttercream frosting in the spookiest colors we could imagine combine to make these Halloween Swirl Cupcakes the perfect cupcake choice for your Halloween celebration.

Ingredients

  • 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
  • 1-2 batches of The Best Buttercream Frosting
  • Wilton Color Right Food Coloring - Pink, Blue, Yellow, Black
  • Wilton 1M Frosting tip and decorating bag

Instructions

  1. Make a batch of vanilla cupcakes.
  2. Make 1-2 batches of our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe (depending on how many cupcakes you are frosting.)
  3. Once you have the frosting made, split it into thirds.  Because the three layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows: Purple:  1 cup Green: 3/4 cups Black: 1/2 cup
  4. For each Halloween Cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting.  Purple on the bottom, then green, and finally black. With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of purple frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
  5. Next, apply another 1 1/2 circles of green frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the bottom frosting layer.
  6. Finally, with the black frosting, add a third circle but this time finishing with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.

Notes

Food Coloring Formulas
Purple: 5 drops of Pink Food Coloring and 2 drops of Blue Food Coloring
Green: 6 drops of Yellow Food Coloring and 1 drop of Blue Food Coloring
Black: 6 drops of Black Food Coloring

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Cuisine: American / Category: Cupcakes