Chocolate Mummy Cupcakes

These Chocolate Mummy Cupcakes are dressed up for Halloween! An easy technique helps you create a festive dessert for the holiday!

Chocolate Mummy Cupcakes

There are SO many creative Halloween recipes. These yummy mummy cupcakes are super easy. You can even use a box chocolate cake mix to streamline the process even more.

I toyed with piping frosting stripes to make the mummy wrappings, but decided that fondant would be even simpler to decorate each mummy cupcake. Fondant isn’t as tasty as frosting, but I love the way it looks.

I’m all about a low stress decorating technique. If you’re making these for those with discriminating palates, feel free to use my homemade cupcake recipe listed below and pipe or drizzle vanilla buttercream for the mummification process.

Easy Halloween Cupcake Recipe

My Halloween memories are filled with bags of candy, trick or treating with my best friends as well as birthday festivities. My birthday is actually the day before Halloween, but since I grew up in a small college town, our trick or treating schedule was adjusted.

Some wise soul thought that having both wild college students and young children on the streets on All Hallows Eve might not be prudent. We went house to house on the 30th instead of the 31st.

So my birthday ended with eating Tootsie Rolls, Milk Duds, and Milky Way Bars. Not too shabby. I don’t recall my mother making any special treats for Halloween but she, as the artist in the family, could have made some amazing Halloween cupcakes, maybe even Halloween mummy cupcakes. I recommend these easy yummy mummy cupcakes if you want to make a special holiday treat for your kids!

The Halloween Project!

I’ve been with a group of bloggers posting Halloween recipe for the past 3 years. We were all trying to post this week, and here I am the first to go live and it’s Friday! So I will add links and photos of all their amazing holiday recipes as they are posted next week. For now I’ve linked a few from the past for inspiration. And, of course, if you’re looking for an easy peasy idea, keep these mummy Halloween cupcakes in the back of your mind!

Black Velvet Cupcakes from A Cookie Named Desire

Melting Monsters Halloween Punch from The Speckled Palate

Bloody Good Pancakes from Sugar Dish Me

Glow in the Dark Jello Shots from Feast + West

More Halloween Recipes You’ll Love:

• Bloody Good Cheesecake from Sugar Dish Me
• Spiderweb Cookie Cake from That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• Jack Skellington Macarons from Big Bear’s Wife
• 20+ Halloween Treats from That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• Bloody White Cake with Raspberry Jam from A Cookie Named Desire
• Going Batty Cupcakes from Sugar Dish Me
• Spiderweb Cupcakes from That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• More of the Best Holiday Recipes

Used in This Recipe:

• Wilton Fondant, White
• Wilton Candy Eyeballs (These are the smaller ones, but the packaging shows what you want to look for)
• OXO Dusting Wand

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The Recipe:

Chocolate Mummy Cupcakes

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 21 minutes

Total Time 51 minutes

Yield 14

An easy way to dress up your cupcakes for Halloween!

Ingredients

For Cupcakes

• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
• 1/3 cup strong coffee
• 1/2 cup butter melted

To Garnish

• 1 box of white fondant
• Powdered sugar
• A small amount of white frosting (from the grocery store or you can make a paste from powdered sugar and water)
• Sugar eyes

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350º. Line muffin tin with cupcake liners.
2. Whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt together in small bowl. In a medium bowl, whisk together egg, brown sugar, and white sugar. Whisk in the milk, coffee, and melted butter. Whisk in the dry ingredients. Divide batter into 12 spots in the muffin tins (fill about ¾ full). I usually have enough batter to make 2 more cupcakes.
3. Bake for 15 minutes (mine took 21 minutes) or till tester inserted in middle of cupcake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and continue cooling on wire rack.
4. When cupcakes are cold, remove some of the fondant from the box.
5. Dust your work surface with powdered sugar, and knead the fondant using the base of your palms. Roll the fondant to about 1/8-inch thickness or less.
6. Use a biscuit cutter that's about the size of the top of your cupcakes and cut out a round. Roll again just to make the diameter slightly larger than your cupcake top.
7. Cut strips from the round, then arrange them over the cupcake to resemble a mummy.
8. Determine where you want the eyes and place a small dab of frosting in two locations as glue. Cover the frosting with the eyes. Repeat with the rest of the cupcakes.

Notes

Feel free to make cupcakes from a box mix to save time.

Fondant and sugar eyes are available at stores like Michaels and Jo-Ann Fabrics

Cupcake recipe adapted from Ghirardelli.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

14

Serving Size:

1 cupcake
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 180Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 216mgCarbohydrates: 28gFiber: 0gSugar: 26gProtein: 1g

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