Description
Fun and festive Halloween cupcakes decorated to look like spooky bats. Perfect for parties, kids, or a creative baking project!
Ingredients
1 box chocolate cake mix (plus ingredients listed on the box such as eggs, oil, and water)
1 tub chocolate frosting
12 chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreos)
24 candy eyes
12 baked chocolate cupcakes
Instructions
1. Bake chocolate cupcakes according to package directions and let them cool completely.
2. Frost each cupcake generously with chocolate frosting.
3. Twist apart the sandwich cookies. Use one half with cream filling attached for the bat’s face, and break the plain halves into halves again to create wings.
4. Press the cookie with cream into the center top of each cupcake for the bat’s face.
5. Insert two cookie halves on either side of the face to look like bat wings.
6. Place two candy eyes on the cream-filled cookie to finish the bat face.
7. Serve immediately or store in an airtight container until ready to enjoy.
Notes
Get creative! Add small candy fangs using mini marshmallows or red gel for extra spooky fun.
These cupcakes are kid-friendly and make a great Halloween party activity.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 20 min
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking, Decorating
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 24 g
- Sodium: 210 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 40 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg