This year is going to be completely different to any other Halloween we have ever experienced. No kids trick or treating and knocking on their neighbours doors for sweets and chocolate, no reason to decorate your house with carved pumpkins to encourage the knocking (or switching off all the lights and pretending you aren't home either...).
So, what can you do to make Halloween more exciting for you and your kids? Dress up at home, decorate the house inside and have a party as a family. And what does every party need? CUPCAKES!
The easiest way to make any cupcake gory and Halloween-worthy is with red food colouring. Be careful, it can get messy (that red food colouring in the video has never 100% come out of my wooden dining table...) but it's totally effective. To make your food colouring the right consistency, you may need to add a little water, then use a pipette or spoon to drizzle on the top of the cake. These are red velvet cupcakes for that extra bloody-ness.
These ones use a Wilton 4B decorating tip, and just add a little orange food colouring to your icing, sprinkle with skull sprinkles, which I have sprayed with edible silver spray paint and then topped with spider cake toppers on toothpicks. You can make these from scratch with your kids by cutting out eight thin spider legs and gluing them to the centre of small black tissue paper balls (you can buy these from Amazon, Hobbycraft or even Etsy.
These are just three REALLY SIMPLE cupcake ideas that you can do together with the kids this Halloween. But if you don't want to get busy in the kitchen, then drop me a message to order your Halloween cupcakes, ready for collection on the morning of Saturday, 31st October.
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