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Halloween Ghost Cupcakes

Ingredients

To make the cupcakes

  • 1 cup Plain Flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup hot water
  • 2 eggs

To decorate

  • 12 marshmallows
  • chocolate spread/marshmallow fluff to use as a glue to stick the marshmallows
  • 200 g ready to roll fondant
  • black food colour pen or black writing icing

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 160c/150c fan oven and then add 12 cupcake cakes to a cupcake tin.

  2. In a large mixing bowl measure out and add in all the dry ingredients. stir all the dry ingredients until well combined.

  3. You can mix the wet ingredients together in a separate bowl before pouring into the dry ingredients and mixing well or you can just add the wet ingredients into the dry and stir well like I do because this saves on washing up!

  4. I use my 1/4 cup measuring cup to spoon my mix into the 12 cupcake cases so that they are all an even size. You want your cake cases to be 3/4 full so if you have extra mixture after doing this you can use it to make some extra cupcakes. Don't try to over fill the cases as they will just bake over the edges and make a mess.

  5. Place the cupcakes into the oven for around 20 minutes. Insert a skewer into the centre of a cupcake to check that it's cooked. It will come out clean if they are ready.

  6. Once the cupcakes are cooled they are ready to decorate. Spread a small amount of the chocolate spread/marshmallow fluff onto the top of each cupcake and then stick a marshmallow on top of this.

  7. Roll out your fondant until it's about 1/2 a cm thick and cut out 12 circles. Again spread a small amount of chocolate spread/marshmallow fluff onto the top of each marshmallow and then drape the fondant over the top of the marshmallow so it sits centrally on the cupcake and it drapes down and covers the sides of the marsh mallow. You can arrange the fondant so that a small section of it at the front is flat so you have space to draw your face.

  8. Using your food colour pen or writing icing draw two small circles for eyes and then one slightly bigger for a mouth. Repeat this process for each cupcake and you are done and ready to enjoy your Halloween treat.