Monster-ous Cupcakes

Little boys love monsters. Well, the ones I know do. I created these for a 2nd birthday party.

Here are some fun ways to decorate cupcakes for a monster party (these will also be great for Halloween). I’ve used a basic chocolate cupcake as my base, but you could use any flavour. Be creative: different sweets, colours and piping nozzles will make your cakes extra scary.

It doesn’t matter if your piping isn’t perfect – I made mine in a rush. As long as there are bright colours and big eyes, they will look monster-ish and the little guests will love them.

Monster-ous Cupcakes

Makes 12

12 cupcakes, any flavour

FOR THE VANILLA FROSTING

240g/9oz butter, at room temperature

750g/1lb 10oz icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla essence

75ml/3 fl oz milk

FOR THE DECORATION

gel food colourings

mini marshmellows, pink and white

liquorice allsorts

writing icing (available in supermarkets)

cocktail sticks

icing nozzles (I’ve used a multi open grass tip for the orange, a star for the blue ones, and a plain round nozzle for the green monsters.

Make the frosting. Place the butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence and milk into a free standing mixer. Mix on a low speed until the ingredients come together, then beat on high for 5 minutes until it is light and fluffy. To make by hand, beat the butter with a wooden spoon and add the icing sugar in batches before adding the vanilla and milk.

Divide the frosting into 3 bowls. Add your chosen colourings to each and mix well. If using gel colours you won’t need very much to achieve a bright colour.

Fill 3 disposable piping bags, fitted with nozzles, with the coloured icings. Pipe onto the cakes. You want to make a furry effect if possible. Keep swirling and piping and building up the frosting until you have a monster-y looking topping.

To make a cyclops eye, place a liquorice allsort on top of the frosted cake. For normal eyes, put 2 of the allsorts on top.

For antenna eyes, cut cocktail sticks in half. Top a stick with a mini marshmellow, and pipe on a black eye on one end with the writing icing. Stick in the cake at funny angles.

For monster teeth, take a pink mini marshmellow and make four snips into it. Stick on your cupcake with extra icing.

 

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25 Aug This entry was published on August 25, 2013 at 4:20 pm. It’s filed under Chocolate, Cupcakes and tagged Baking and Confections, cake, children, Cooking, Cupcake, Halloween, party, Powdered sugar. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.