Description
Create spooky and fun Jack Skellington Cupcakes perfect for Halloween with this simple decorating guide using your favorite cupcake recipe, vanilla buttercream, and black gel food coloring.
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- Your favorite cupcake recipe (enough for desired cupcakes)
Frosting
- Vanilla buttercream (enough to frost cupcakes)
- Americolor Soft Gel Paste Super Black (for coloring buttercream black)
Instructions
- Frost cupcakes: Using a knife or straight spatula, frost each cupcake thoroughly with white vanilla buttercream to cover all the visible surface evenly.
- Pipe eyes: Fill a pastry bag fitted with a #3 round piping tip with black buttercream colored using Americolor Soft Gel Paste Super Black. Pipe two round black circles for eyes on each cupcake. Fill the circles using a back and forth motion, then smooth them out with a decorating spatula.
- Create facial features: Using the same black buttercream in the pastry bag with a #3 round tip, pipe the nose, mouth, and eyebrows onto the cupcakes to replicate Jack Skellington’s iconic face.
- Serve: Once decorated, serve your Jack Skellington Cupcakes and enjoy!
Notes
- Use gel paste food coloring to maintain vibrant black color without thinning the buttercream.
- The cupcake base can be any flavor you prefer; vanilla works especially well.
- Practice piping the facial features on parchment paper before decorating cupcakes for better precision.
- Perfect for Halloween parties and festive gatherings to impress guests with themed treats.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 34g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 35mg
