Halloween Cupcakes are easy chocolate cupcakes with frosting and crushed Oreos, decorated to look like bats, ghosts, gravestones, spiders, and spiderwebs.

Halloween cupcakes displayed on a cupcake holder feature a ghost, spider, bat, and tombstone cupcakes.

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Halloween Cupcakes

These chocolate cupcakes are topped with Oreo crumbs and can be decorated with fun Halloween items like gravestones or spiders.

They’re easy to make, perfect for a party, or just a fun treat for the family!

Ingredients

Here’s what you’ll need to make these fun Halloween Cupcakes:

  • Eggs: Room temperature eggs mix better for a smooth batter.
  • Sour Cream: Makes the cupcakes moist and rich.
  • Vegetable Oil: Keeps the cupcakes soft and moist.
  • Vanilla: Boosts the chocolate flavor.
  • Cake Mix: A boxed mix makes it easy—Betty Crocker’s Super Moist is my favorite.
  • Pudding Mix: Adds sweetness and moisture.
  • Mini Chocolate Chips: Spread out well and don’t sink.
  • Frosting: Use store-bought or homemade, based on what works for you.
  • Oreos: Crushed Oreos add crunch, color, and a spooky touch.
Spider web with fake spiders on colored frosting.
Ghost Halloween cupcakes with white chocolate ghosts and mini chocolate chip eyes.

How To Make Halloween Cupcakes

  1. Prepare: Preheat the oven and line a cupcake pan with liners.
  2. Mix Batter: In a big bowl, whisk eggs, sour cream, oil, and vanilla. Stir in cake mix and pudding mix, then add hot water and mix in chocolate chips.
  3. Bake Cupcakes: Fill liners 3/4 full and bake for 18-23 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a rack.
  4. Frost Cupcakes: Once cool, frost using a piping bag with a round tip.
  5. Add Oreo Crumbs: Dip frosted cupcakes into crushed Oreos.
  6. Decorate: Add bat, ghost, gravestone, spider, or spiderweb decorations.
Tombstone treat with Milano cookies and black frosting.

Ideas For More Halloween Cupcakes

  • Mummy Cupcakes: Pipe white frosting in zigzags to look like mummy bandages and add candy eyes.
  • Pumpkin Faces: Frost cupcakes with orange icing and use black gel or chocolate chips to make jack-o’-lantern faces.
  • Witch Hats: Place a mini chocolate cone on top of frosted cupcakes and add a candy belt for the hat.
  • Monster: Use colorful frosting, then add candy eyes all over.
  • Candy Corn Toppers: Frost with yellow, orange, and white frosting to look like candy corn.
  • Bloody Cupcakes: Drizzle red gel or jam over white frosting for a “bloody” effect and add a mini knife candy.
Bat Halloween Cupcakes made with mini Reese's, Oreos, and edible eyes.
Festive spider dessert for a spooky treat.

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Halloween Cupcakes

By Chelsea Lords
These Halloween Cupcakes are filled with spooky goodness! Topped with frosting and crushed Oreos, they’re decked out as bats, ghosts, gravestones, spiders, and spiderwebs!
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 18 minutes
Total Time: 38 minutes
Servings: 24 cupcakes

Equipment

Ingredients 
 

Chocolate Cupcakes

Frosting

Instructions 

Chocolate Cupcakes

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with liners. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, whisk eggs. Add sour cream, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract. Whisk until smooth. Add cake mix and pudding mix. Stir with a wooden spoon until moistened. Add hot water and mix until smooth. Fold in chocolate chips.
  • Fill the cupcake liners 3/4 full. Bake 18–23 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Let cupcakes cool in the pan for 5–10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Frosting

  • Prepare the frosting (see links in ingredients).
  • Transfer frosting to a piping bag fitted with a piping tip. Frost the cooled cupcakes.
  • Blend Oreos into fine crumbs and place them in a shallow bowl. Press the frosted cupcakes into the crumbs to coat the tops.

Decorating

  • See note 1.

Recipe Notes

Note 1: Decorating:
  • Bat Cupcakes: Make these Halloween Bat Treats and place on frosted, Oreo-dipped cupcakes.
  • Gravestone: Write “RIP” on Milano cookies with black decorating gel. Insert into the frosted, Oreo-dipped cupcakes.
  • Ghost: Melt 1/2 cup white chocolate. Spoon melted chocolate onto a parchment-lined sheet pan. Spread the chocolate with the back of a spoon to form ghost shapes. Add 2 mini chocolate chips for eyes. Freeze until set, then press into frosted, Oreo-dipped cupcakes.
  • Spider: Place an unwrapped Lindt candy and a Whopper candy on frosted, Oreo-dipped cupcakes. Add chocolate-covered pretzel pieces as legs.
  • Spiderweb: Dye cream cheese frosting in your preferred color. Pipe frosting onto cupcakes. Melt 1/2 cup white chocolate and pipe spiderweb designs onto parchment paper. Freeze and add to cupcakes with small plastic spiders.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 462kcal | Carbohydrates: 58g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 58mg | Sodium: 246mg | Potassium: 208mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 46g | Vitamin A: 447IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 65mg | Iron: 2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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3 Comments

  1. Annettte Mary Vaughan says:

    want to make theses

    Reply
    1. Chelsea says:

      You’re going to love!

      Reply
  2. Christian says:

    5 stars
    SO GOOD!!!

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