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Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes + video tutorial!

Updated 9 October 2024 Published 17 October 2018 52 Comments

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Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes on a baking try - Pinterest Image.
Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes on a baking try - Pinterest Image.
Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes on a baking try - Pinterest Image.
Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes - delicious chocolate & coffee flavoured sponge topped with chocolate spread & a handmade white chocolate ghost. Easy recipe which is perfect for kids to make with a little adult help if needed! #cupcake #Halloween #chocolate #coffee #baking #kidsrecipe #Halloweenrecipes #TrickorTreat #ghost #spooky #cake

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes are delicious, chocolate-flavoured cupcakes with a hint of coffee, topped with chocolate spread and a white chocolate ghost topper. They are easy enough for kids to make with a little adult help.

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes - delicious chocolate & coffee flavoured sponge topped with chocolate spread & a handmade white chocolate ghost. Ghost, candle and pumpkin background.

With Halloween just around the corner, it would be rude not to share a spooky-themed recipe, so I have conjured up some Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes  (which I made by adapting my Chocolate Cupcakes)

They are chocolate cupcakes with a dash of coffee as my daughter loves the mocha flavour which just seems to boost the chocolate experience to a new level.

If you feel your younger kids wouldn’t like it then feel free to use just cocoa powder!

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes - delicious chocolate & coffee flavoured sponge topped with chocolate spread & a handmade white chocolate ghost. Teeth marks in the cake in the forefront!

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes are perfect for kids to make as they’re so easy to prepare and mix in a bowl.

The chocolate ghost toppers need a little adult help with chocolate melting if your kids are very young.

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes - delicious chocolate & coffee flavoured sponge topped with chocolate spread & a handmade white chocolate ghost. Ghost and pumpkin background.

My ghost piping skills aren’t the best and perhaps resemble Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ more than ghosts so you and your kids can probably do better!

My daughter did walk in from school and have a go at piping one and probably could have done a better job had I let her start them off but she had to copy what I’d already done!

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes - delicious chocolate & coffee flavoured sponge topped with chocolate spread & a handmade white chocolate ghost. Ghost and pumpkin background.

We love Halloween here, I have an enormous carrier bag full of Halloween paraphernalia that gets brought out each year to decorate our front window and door.

Sadly my daughter is 15 now and too old for Trick or Treating and my son is at university so we’ll just be handing out treats this Halloween!

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes - delicious chocolate & coffee flavoured sponge topped with chocolate spread & a handmade white chocolate ghost. Ghost and pumpkin background.

This year I’ll try my best not to make any trick-or-treaters cry which I managed last year.

A mum with her young son pointed out that he hadn’t said the magic words “Trick or treat” before taking a sweet.

Stupidly I said he could try again and put the sweet back in the bowl! Well, he got so upset and then I found myself getting upset that I’d upset him so much. Never again!

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes - delicious chocolate & coffee flavoured sponge topped with chocolate spread & a handmade white chocolate ghost. Ghost and pumpkin background.

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Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes

Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes are delicious, chocolate flavoured cupcakes with a hint of coffee, topped with chocolate spread and a white chocolate ghost topper. Easy enough for kids to make with a little adult help.
Course Snack, teatime
Cuisine American, British
Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time 17 minutes minutes
30 minutes minutes
Total Time 37 minutes minutes
Servings 16 cupcakes
Author Camilla Hawkins

Equipment

  • 1 sieve
  • 1 mixing bowl
  • 1 Digital scales
  • 1 Balloon whisk large
  • 1 rubber spatula
  • 2 Bun trays
  • 16 Cupcake cases
  • 2 Squares of baking paper
  • 1 small saucepan
  • 2 Small heatproof glass bowls

Ingredients

  • 85 g Self raising flour
  • 25 g Cocoa powder
  • 5 g Coffee powder
  • 115 g Caster sugar
  • 115 g Buttery spread margarine
  • 2 large Eggs lightly beaten

Topping:

  • 16 tsp Chocolate spread (heaped teaspoons) I used chocolate & hazelnut
  • 100 g White chocolate broken into pieces
  • 40 g Dark chocolate broken into pieces

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 180⁰C.
  • Line 2 bun trays with 16 cupcake cases.
  • Sieve the flour, cocoa and coffee powder into a large bowl.
  • Add the sugar, buttery spread and beaten eggs.
  • Beat with a wooden spoon or large balloon whisk until forms a smooth batter.
  • Spoon equal quantities of batter into the cupcake cases.
  • Place on middle shelf of oven and bake for 13 minutes.
  • Meanwhile make the chocolate ghost toppers by melting the white chocolate in a glass bowl over a pan of barely simmering water – a bain-marie. (Don’t let the bowl touch the water and don’t heat for longer than necessary or chocolate can cease).
  • Place chocolate into a piping bag with small nozzle (you can easily make one out of grease proof paper and snip end off).
  • Pipe ghost shapes onto a sheet of grease proof paper (small enough to fit onto the cupcakes) and place in fridge to set.
  • Remove cakes from oven, they’re ready when they spring back to the touch.
  • Allow the cupcakes to sit for a couple of minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
  • Next prepare the eyes and mouth decorations by melting the dark chocolate over a bain-marie.
  • Spoon the melted chocolate into a piping bag and pipe eyes and mouths onto the white chocolate ghost shapes.
  • Pop back in fridge to set.
  • Top each cake with a spoonful of chocolate spread and spread towards the edge.
  • Then place a chocolate ghost topper on each cupcake.
  • Enjoy! Will keep for 2 days in a cake tin.

Video

Notes

If you’d prefer to not use coffee powder then just substitute with more cocoa powder.

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Comments

  1. Kat (The Baking Explorer)

    02/11/2018 at 9:25 am

    I absolutely love these, they’re so fun!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      02/11/2018 at 2:01 pm

      Thanks Kat, they were fun to make too:-)

      Reply
  2. All That I'm Eating

    24/10/2018 at 10:23 am

    These look great Camilla! And icing made from chocolate hazelnut spread?! Yes please!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      24/10/2018 at 5:35 pm

      Thank you:-)

      Reply
  3. Katherine

    22/10/2018 at 5:09 pm

    These look awesome. I love the spooky ghosts!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      22/10/2018 at 9:55 pm

      Thank you Katherine:-)

      Reply
  4. Elizabeth

    22/10/2018 at 4:42 pm

    These are so cute, and I totally see the Munch scream going on too, lol! I like it! My kids would LOVE these!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      22/10/2018 at 10:01 pm

      Thanks Elizabeth, yes I’m sure your kids would love them:-)

      Reply
  5. Shaun

    21/10/2018 at 9:27 pm

    have you thought about some kind of “blood” filling that oozes out when bitten into?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      21/10/2018 at 9:52 pm

      Perhaps if they were zombie cupcakes, but ghosts wouldn’t bleed:-) That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it:-)

      Reply
  6. Shaun Baird

    21/10/2018 at 9:25 pm

    Do you know what, Ive been looking at some halloween ideas the last few days and this simple offering really stands out. It looks frightfully good (lol)

    This is one of those recipes that I can honestly see being made at many a kids halloween party across the Uk… NIce!

    Shaun

    Reply
    • Camilla

      21/10/2018 at 9:50 pm

      Thank you Shaun very kind:-)

      Reply
  7. Kavita Favelle

    21/10/2018 at 4:43 pm

    They are super adorable! And it did make me laugh that you mention Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ as that’s what came to my mind immediately when I saw the first picture. I think that’s wholly appropriate for Halloween cakes, they may be the ghosts of the screaming man!!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      21/10/2018 at 7:12 pm

      Thanks Kavey and that’s a great theory, I’ll go with that:-)

      Reply
  8. Noel Lizotte

    20/10/2018 at 12:37 am

    I love that your ghosts look like the painting “The Scream”! These are a great treat to take to school or the office during Halloween week.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      20/10/2018 at 11:43 am

      Thanks Noel, yes I think “The Scream” must have been a subconscious influence:-)

      Reply
  9. Melissa

    19/10/2018 at 7:17 pm

    These are boo-tiful!!!! I love that you used a Hazelnut Chocolate spread for the icing too, YUM!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 11:33 pm

      Thank you Melissa:-)

      Reply
  10. Jenni LeBaron

    19/10/2018 at 6:47 pm

    These are super clever decorations for Halloween cupcakes and that chocolate ganache looks absolutely delicious! I would definitely gobble these up!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 11:34 pm

      Thank you Jenni:-)

      Reply
  11. Veena Azmanov

    19/10/2018 at 4:16 pm

    These cupcakes are so cute. My kids would be all over this. Bet it would be a perfect project for kids activity as well. So much fun.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 6:39 pm

      Thanks Veena, yes I definitely made it easy enough for kids to make:-)

      Reply
  12. Marisa Franca

    19/10/2018 at 12:52 pm

    Your cupcakes are so cute — you’re very creative! I imagine that the kiddos go nuts over them and I bet the adults do too. I’m pinning the recipe – I love how you did the ghosts.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 1:54 pm

      Thank you Marisa, you’re very kind! They were delicious:-)

      Reply
  13. Lauren Vavala

    19/10/2018 at 12:37 pm

    These are so adorable! I love that you use Nutella for the icing – such a great idea!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 1:55 pm

      Thanks Lauren, it wasn’t actually Nutella, I found a new spread that was free of palm oil so used that!

      Reply
  14. Dan Zehr

    19/10/2018 at 8:43 am

    Oh yum! My whole family would go crazy for these!
    These Cupcakes are really impressive! Wow and wow, this is so delicious and it makes my mouth watering

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 1:55 pm

      Thanks Dan, I’m sure you and your family would love them:-)

      Reply
  15. Mahy Elamin

    19/10/2018 at 7:55 am

    A good and tasty idea for the Halloween. This is a great idea, even for picky eaters! It is really impressive. Looks very tasty. Yum. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 1:56 pm

      Thank you Mahy, they are super tasty:-)

      Reply
  16. Michelle

    19/10/2018 at 3:23 am

    These are so cool! I love the ghost decoration so much 😀

    Reply
    • Camilla

      19/10/2018 at 1:57 pm

      Thank you Michelle:-)

      Reply
  17. Claudia Lamascolo

    18/10/2018 at 7:38 pm

    You are sure creative and these are just adorable as well as I am sure delicious. I just love Halloween treats!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 8:44 pm

      Aaw, thank you Claudia:-)

      Reply
  18. Edyta at Eating European

    18/10/2018 at 5:24 pm

    These ghost cupcakes look so beautiful! Such a fun project to make with the kids 🙂

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 8:45 pm

      Thank you Edyta:-)

      Reply
  19. Stephanie

    18/10/2018 at 4:52 pm

    Wow.. Love this idea for Halloween cupcakes and of course with these being chocolate you know everyone would love these..

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 5:14 pm

      Thank you Stephanie, I think you’re right!

      Reply
  20. Natalie

    18/10/2018 at 4:41 pm

    These cupcakes are adorable! Perfect treat for Halloween! Can’t wait to try your recipe 🙂

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 5:13 pm

      Thank you Natalie, I’m sure you’ll love them:-)

      Reply
  21. Kate

    18/10/2018 at 4:17 pm

    So spoooooky! This is such a great, eye-catching Halloween cupcake recipe. 🙂

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 4:37 pm

      Thank you so much Kate:-)

      Reply
  22. Sonal

    18/10/2018 at 4:16 pm

    Omg this is super cute. I would love to try these out with my kids.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 4:38 pm

      Thank you Sonal:-)

      Reply
  23. Elaine Benoit

    18/10/2018 at 4:07 pm

    These cupcakes look adorable and delicious!! And perfect for Halloween! Sending this to my niece as she’s having a party for all the kiddies in her neighborhood!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 4:38 pm

      Excellent Elaine and thank you so much:-)

      Reply
  24. Christina | Christina's Cucina

    18/10/2018 at 3:54 pm

    I think you did a stupendous job! Love these and sharing!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 4:39 pm

      Aaw, thank you so much Christina:-)

      Reply
  25. Corina Blum

    18/10/2018 at 10:00 am

    I love the way you’ve done the ghosts on these Camilla! I’ll have to try them in half term for my kids although maybe without the coffee.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2018 at 11:48 am

      Thank you Corina – yes younger kids would probably prefer all cocoa:-)

      Reply
  26. Ali - We Made This Life

    17/10/2018 at 10:06 pm

    These look amazing! My children would love making these with me (and eating them I bet!)

    Reply
    • Camilla

      17/10/2018 at 10:40 pm

      Thanks Ali, I’m sure they would:-)

      Reply

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