Monster Cupcakes Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Divide frosting into five separate small bowls. Stir 1 teaspoon desired color gel food color into each bowl. Spoon each color frosting into separate decorating bag fitted with desired tip. Pipe frosting on cupcakes to look like monster's fur.
• Decorate each cupcake as desired using candy eyeballs and decorating gel.

Steps:

• Frost tops of cupcakes with a smooth, even layer of buttercream. Place toasted coconut in a bowl. Holding cupcake at an angle over the bowl, press coconut into frosted top of cupcake, letting excess fall back into bowl. Add candies to create facial features.

Steps:

• Cut the red fruit leather rolls into twenty-four 2 1/2-inch lengths. Slightly overlap 2 pieces lengthwise, pressing to adhere; repeat with the remaining pieces.
• Spread a thin coat of vanilla frosting on each cupcake. Place a red fruit leather rectangle on top of each cupcake, trimming any overhang with kitchen shears.
• Cut big fangs from a marshmallow with shears, then halve mini marshmallows on the diagonal to make mini fangs. Dab some vanilla frosting on the sticky cut sides and arrange on the fruit leather for the fangs.
• Fill a piping bag fitted with a small star tip (#17) with dark chocolate frosting. Pipe frosting around the mouth as the fur.

Steps:

• 1.Preheat the oven to 180°C (Electric oven | Electric fan oven 160°C | Gas Mark 4) and place paper cases into a muffin tin
• 2.Using an electric whisk, food processor or wooden spoon, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
• 3.Add in the egg, beating it well
• 4.Fold in the flour
• 5.Bake in the oven for 10 - 20 minutes. After 10 minutes, check to see if the cupcakes are ready by inserting a cocktail stick into one of the cupcakes. If it comes out dry then the cupcakes are done. If not, pop the cakes back in the oven for a few more minutes. Lift the cupcakes out of the muffin tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
• Butter Frosting Recipe: Mix the unsalted butter, icing sugar and vanilla
• 1.Add the tablespoons of milk, one tablespoon at a time and stir in well
• 2.Whisk for 10 minutes
• 3.Take out 4-5 tablespoons of the mixture and keep in a separate bowl
• 4.Add the blue food colouring to the remaining mixture. Stir well.
• Decoration Recipe: 1.Once the cupcakes are cooled, cover them in the blue butter frosting.
• 2.Next make the coloured coconut. Add a few drops of food colouring to the coconut and coat thoroughly. Spread the coconut out on wax paper to air dry for a couple hours. To make the coconut better resemble the Cookie Monster's furry coat, you can pulse the coconut in a food processor.
• 3.Sprinkle the tinted blue desiccated coconut over the cupcakes.
• 4.To make the eyes, pipe out two balls of white butter icing (use a baggie with the corner snipped off if you don't have a pastry bag)
• 5.Add a chocolate chip, with the flat surface facing upwards, to each ball of white butter frosting
• 6.Use a sharp knife to make a cut for the mouth and wedge in your favourite cookie
• 7.Enjoy....and try not to eat them all at once!

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups or spray with cooking spray. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and eggs. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Tint 1 container frosting with green food color. Tint second container frosting with purple food color. Place green frosting in decorating bag fitted with star tip #109. Place purple frosting in second decorating bag fitted with #109 tip. Pipe green frosting on half of the cupcakes. Pipe purple frosting on remaining cupcakes.
• Attach gummy candies for eyes. With frosting, attach candy eyes in center for eye pupils. Attach licorice pieces for mouths. With dampened kitchen scissors, cut marshmallows into small pieces for fangs. Attach candy corn above eyes for horns and on sides for ears.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with deep cake cases. Put all the cake ingredients into a large bowl and beat together with electric hand beaters until smooth. Spoon the mix into the cases, then bake for 20 mins until risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out dry. Cool completely on a rack. Can be made up to 3 days ahead and kept in an airtight container, or frozen for up to 1 month.
• For the frosting, work the butter, milk and vanilla into the icing sugar until creamy and pale. Colour with food colouring, if using, then create your own gruesome monster faces using sweets and sprinkles.