These cupcakes are all by Jen from the blog Jersey Girl Kitchen, where you can go for the recipes to the Jack Skellington chocolate cupcakes, perfect for Halloween, and her crime scene cupcakes, which are both charming and a little disturbing (not her artwork, just the idea of crime scene cupcakes). They also work for Halloween, and you can click above to get her recipe for double vanilla cupcakes and vanilla bean buttercream.
Jen writes:
With Halloween quickly approaching, I was inspired to make some Burton-themed cupcakes, and of course, I chose to go with my favorite character of his: Jack Skellington. The cupcakes are my basic chocolate cake recipe with a simple chocolate buttercream frosting. The "Jacks" are jumbo marshmallows, with faces drawn on them using Americolor Gourmet Writer food coloring pens. (They're available in a rainbow of colors or in black only, and they're well worth the investment.) I piped the buttercream using a large open star tip, and dipped the frosting into black nonpareils, trying to get them just on the ridges of the frosting, so that it would sort of mimic Jack Skellington's neckwear. Stick a lollipop stick into the bottom of marshmallow, and the other end of it into the center of a frosted and decorated cupcake, and you've got yourself an edible Jack Skellington!
Jen writes:
With Halloween quickly approaching, I was inspired to make some Burton-themed cupcakes, and of course, I chose to go with my favorite character of his: Jack Skellington. The cupcakes are my basic chocolate cake recipe with a simple chocolate buttercream frosting. The "Jacks" are jumbo marshmallows, with faces drawn on them using Americolor Gourmet Writer food coloring pens. (They're available in a rainbow of colors or in black only, and they're well worth the investment.) I piped the buttercream using a large open star tip, and dipped the frosting into black nonpareils, trying to get them just on the ridges of the frosting, so that it would sort of mimic Jack Skellington's neckwear. Stick a lollipop stick into the bottom of marshmallow, and the other end of it into the center of a frosted and decorated cupcake, and you've got yourself an edible Jack Skellington!
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