Not only is halloween about dressing up but getting drunk and eating yummy food is also a must. What could possibly be better than cupcakes and jelly shots? Throw in some festive Halloween decorations and you've got yourself the perfect party treats!
Halloween Cupcakes
What you need:
Basic vanilla cupcake ingredients
Spooky cupcake cases (poundland) Ready to use black icing and orange food colouring (Tesco)
Firstly
Bake your cupcakes, I'm not going to bother writing it all out here, you should know how to make cupcakes but if not just Google it.
Leave them to cool while you get onto the serious business
Roll out about a third of a pack of the black icing, make sure you flour the rolling pin before but try and use as little as possible since it will turn the black into a grey.
Cut out a load of triangles, trying to keep them the same size but if not it's not the end of the world. These will be your pumpkins eyes so make sure theres enough for 2 on each cake.
Using the same icing, roll out your icing again if there isn't enough space. Cut out little mouths for your cakes you can do the same or different styles for each cake. This is very fiddly and takes ages but I promise you it's worth it.
Make some butter icing by mixing icing sugar and butter together until it's nice a thick. Slowly add in drops of the food colouring so it spreads evenly and mix until you like the colour. To get it this orange we used a whole tube of it.
Assemble all your decorations once the cupcakes have cooled completely on top (otherwise this will turn into a big orange mess) We piped icing for 3 of the cakes and released we didn't have enough icing for that luxury so we just spooned on the rest.
Then stick on your triangles and mouths evenly while the icing is still wet.
And tada, the cutest little pumpkins you've ever seen!
Spooky Shots
What You Need:
Peach Schnapps (any alcohol) , Halloween (gummy worms/teeth), Blackcurrant Jelly (you can also use orange or apple jelly as they are halloweeny colours too), Bowl and Shot Glasses.
Firstly make jelly how you normally would by mixing it with half a pint of boiling water. Instead of pouring another half pint of cold water which is what your supposed to do, mix a 1/4 pint of cold water with 1/4 pint of Peach Schnapps. This makes the jelly set normally but still have that alcoholic kick!
Throw your gummy's into the mix to make it a little more festive and let the jelly set over night or for a few hours.
Set aside some gummy's for a little decor later ;)
You could pour the jelly mixture into the shot glasses firstly and let them set in there but it's actually super hard to actually get the jelly out. Instead we spooned the set jelly into the glasses.
Yeah that decor I mentioned earlier really saves this shot, otherwise it'll just look like a normal jello shot but now its magically festive!
Firstly make jelly how you normally would by mixing it with half a pint of boiling water. Instead of pouring another half pint of cold water which is what your supposed to do, mix a 1/4 pint of cold water with 1/4 pint of Peach Schnapps. This makes the jelly set normally but still have that alcoholic kick!
Throw your gummy's into the mix to make it a little more festive and let the jelly set over night or for a few hours.
Set aside some gummy's for a little decor later ;)
You could pour the jelly mixture into the shot glasses firstly and let them set in there but it's actually super hard to actually get the jelly out. Instead we spooned the set jelly into the glasses.
Yeah that decor I mentioned earlier really saves this shot, otherwise it'll just look like a normal jello shot but now its magically festive!
Happy Halloween xx
