Halloween Baking – Kids baking Halloween fun treats

Kids love baking, especially during holiday time. Halloween is particularly fun because you have so many spooky, creepy, scary themes to choose from. You don’t have to be a master baker to be able to make amazing sweets that the kids will love. By using a box of cake mix and muffin tin, you can create many different and ‘spooktacular’ Halloween cupcakes.

Make the cake according to box directions. Devil’s Food is most appropriate, but you can make white cake for a ghostly look, or add in food color to change the look. Orange is the color of fall, with the leaves, pumpkins, and halloween. Whenever you want to make a dark, halloween orange, you will need to add a lot of red and yellow food coloring to the cake mix or icing. Cake supply stores also sell a multitude of colors, including a dark orange, so you don’t have to try to mix the color.

Pumpkin faces: Make orange icing and spread it over the cupcakes. Take chocolate chips and make a pumpkin face: 1 chip for each eye and the nose, and a line of chips for the mouth. You can make the pumpkin, happy, sad, or experiment with other expressions.

Spiders: Cover cupcake with white or orange frosting. Use a gel tube or a an icing bag with a tip to make a big dot of icing in the middle of the cupcake for the spider’s body. Make a smaller dot in front for the spider’s head. You can either make legs by drawing 8 lines coming out of the body, or make a web around the spider.

Worms in dirt. Put some baking coconut in a small plastic bag. Add a few drops of black food coloring. Knead the color into the coconut, then remove it to dry on some wax paper. Spread icing (black, orange, purple or green) on the cupcake and then put the coconut on top. Place the gummy worms on to finish. (If you don’t like coconut, you can also use grated chocolate or chocolate cookie crumbs).

Watch kids making pumpkin face cupcakes to get you inspired. Nothing is better than art you can eat!

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