Some special candy corn cupcakes for Halloween, which is this Sunday. Anyone dressing up as a cupcake?
Candy corn cupcake by Heavenly Cupcake Shop on Flickr:
The 2 photos below are both by Flour & Sun Bakery in Pleasantville, New York. via Flickr.
"For Halloween we turned our Rainbow Cloud Cupcakes into Candy Corn colored - both the cupcake and the icing"
These cupcakes below are from the blog The Celebration Shoppe, which you should check out for more Halloween desserts, and they're allergy-free.
All of my desserts that night were inspired by the yummy candy corn and the first on my list was a cupcake… imagine that! By the way, Brach’s candy corn has milk in it, but the Kroger brand is dairy free!
Since I was going the quick route that afternoon, using a Duncan Hines Butter cake mix and Smart Balance Light vegan butter (be careful that you get the light; the others have dairy in them) I whipped up these cupcakes. My only advice on the butter is to use a little less than the recipe calls for because it has a very buttery taste.
And if your little one also has an egg allergy, which my little guy did for the first three years of his life, try making your cupcakes out of a Duncan Hines brownie mix instead. Just make according to the recipe and fill your cupcake liners higher than normal. I would also suggest that you either use the tin/silver liners or you use cupcake wrappers, like we create for our collections, to hide the wrapper as brownies have oil in them and will discolor your wrappers.
For the icing I simply used Pillsbury Cream Cheese icing and tinted it using gel food coloring (liquid food coloring thins your icing). Using resealable bags with a slit corner (for easy cleanup) I just piped one layer at a time. It was as simple as that!
Hoosier Homemade not only made candy corn cupcakes and give us the recipe (click on their name for it) but also has them in candy corn wrappers! (via Flickr)
Candy corn cupcake by Heavenly Cupcake Shop on Flickr:
The 2 photos below are both by Flour & Sun Bakery in Pleasantville, New York. via Flickr.
"For Halloween we turned our Rainbow Cloud Cupcakes into Candy Corn colored - both the cupcake and the icing"
These cupcakes below are from the blog The Celebration Shoppe, which you should check out for more Halloween desserts, and they're allergy-free.
All of my desserts that night were inspired by the yummy candy corn and the first on my list was a cupcake… imagine that! By the way, Brach’s candy corn has milk in it, but the Kroger brand is dairy free!
Since I was going the quick route that afternoon, using a Duncan Hines Butter cake mix and Smart Balance Light vegan butter (be careful that you get the light; the others have dairy in them) I whipped up these cupcakes. My only advice on the butter is to use a little less than the recipe calls for because it has a very buttery taste.
And if your little one also has an egg allergy, which my little guy did for the first three years of his life, try making your cupcakes out of a Duncan Hines brownie mix instead. Just make according to the recipe and fill your cupcake liners higher than normal. I would also suggest that you either use the tin/silver liners or you use cupcake wrappers, like we create for our collections, to hide the wrapper as brownies have oil in them and will discolor your wrappers.
For the icing I simply used Pillsbury Cream Cheese icing and tinted it using gel food coloring (liquid food coloring thins your icing). Using resealable bags with a slit corner (for easy cleanup) I just piped one layer at a time. It was as simple as that!
Hoosier Homemade not only made candy corn cupcakes and give us the recipe (click on their name for it) but also has them in candy corn wrappers! (via Flickr)
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