Ghostly cupcakes by Motherforlife Recipe

Name: Ghostly cupcakes by Motherforlife
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 36 Muffins
Ingredients: 750 mL (3 cups) flour; 500 mL (2 cups) sugar; 125 mL (1/2 cup) cocoa; 10 mL (2 tsp.) baking soda; 5 mL (1 tsp.) salt; 150 mL (2/3 cup) vegetable oil; 10 mL (2 tsp.) white vinegar; 5 mL (1 tsp.) vanilla; 500 mL (2 cups) cold water

Ingredients

750 mL (3 cups) flour
500 mL (2 cups) sugar
125 mL (1/2 cup) cocoa
10 mL (2 tsp.) baking soda
5 mL (1 tsp.) salt
150 mL (2/3 cup) vegetable oil
10 mL (2 tsp.) white vinegar
5 mL (1 tsp.) vanilla
500 mL (2 cups) cold water

	PREP TIME 25m	COOK TIME 25m	TOTAL TIME 50m
YIELD 36 Muffins

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
In a small bowl, combine oil, vinegar, and vanilla.
Using an electric beater, mix oil mixture and water with dry ingredients for about 1 minute, or until mixture is smooth.
Divide dough into a cupcake tin that has been pre-greased or coated with cooking spray.
Bake for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of one of the cupcakes comes out clean. Let cool completely.
Flatten and cut out a few squares of marzipan.
Place squares onto a small round object (like a salt shaker, for example) to make the ghosts.
Let stand for several hours, until marzipan has hardened.
Using tubed melted chocolate or frosting, pipe eyes and mouth.
Frost cupcakes completely with orange frosting and sprinkle with grated coconut all around.
Place marzipan ghosts on cupcakes.
Frost top of cupcakes with red frosting and sprinkle with some chocolate cookie crumbs.
To make the tombstones, spread some chocolate frosting onto finger biscuits and pipe a cross with a tube of white frosting.
Insert the decorated biscuit into the cupcakes and add some gummy worms around.
Make some mini cupcakes along with the regular cupcakes or cut out the body of the tarantula from some of the regular sized cupcakes.
Frost the body of the tarantula with chocolate frosting and cover with chocolate sprinkles.
Pipe eyes using tubed white and red frosting.
Frost the top of the regular cupcake with yellow frosting and pipe a spider’s web on top using tubed white frosting.
Place tarantula on the cupcakes and insert eight small black licorice twists for the legs.