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Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes for Halloween

September 3, 2019 by Halloween Fanatic Leave a Comment

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These cute cupcakes are perfect for a fall party, Thanksgiving or Halloween. Made with a boxed cake mix and decorated to look like pumpkins, they are quick and easy to make.

These easy pumpkin cupcakes are perfect for a fall or Halloween party. Made with a boxed cake mix and decorated to look like pumpkins, they are quick and easy to make.

Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes for Halloween

*Makes approximately 24 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 1 box of chocolate cake mix + box ingredients
  • 1 tub of white frosting
  • Orange gel food colouring
  • Pretzel sticks (24)
  • Wilton candy leaves (24)
  • Cupcake liners (24)
  • Shish kabob skewer

* If chocolate’s not your favourite, feel free to use any flavour of boxed cake mix or your favourite homemade cake recipe.

Directions:

Preheat the oven according to the cake mix directions.

Combine cake mix ingredients.

Line (2) 12 count muffin tins with cupcake liners.

Fill each muffin well 1/2 way with cupcake batter.

Bake according to package directions.

Remove from the oven and let the cupcakes cool completely prior to decorating.

Chocolate cupcakes and decorations for easy Halloween Pumpkin cupcakes

Scoop the white frosting into a dish and add several drops of orange gel food coloring. Stir to combine.

Mixing orange icing for Pumpkin cupcakes

(Depending on how ‘orange’ you want your frosting, you may want to continue adding drops to make the frosting more orange in color.)

orange icing for halloween pumpkin cupcakes

Generously frost each cupcake with orange frosting.

orange frosting on cupcakes, getting ready to decorate as a pumpkin

Use a shish kabob skewer to gently post a hole in the side of the cupcake (near the top) and then insert 1 pretzel stick so that it looks like the pumpkin’s stem.

Decorating Halloween Pumpkin cupcake

Give each cupcake a Wilton leaf.

Enjoy!

Recipe for Easy Halloween Pumpkin cupcakes

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