Halloween Orange Cupcakes

When Kristofer told me his coworkers were going to bring in food on Halloween, I started ranting about how we weren’t going to bring in another dessert, but would instead make a savory dish for everyone to enjoy!

…then the deadline started creeping up on me, and I realized that I needed to use my Halloween cupcake liners anyway, plus Target had those fake fangs on sale at like 6 for a buck, so how could I miss the opportunity to buy those for a bunch of adults who wouldn’t use them? The answer: I couldn’t.

So I bought some Wilton orange food dye and a surprisingly good batch of cookies and cream icing.

5.0 from 1 reviews

Halloween Orange Cupcakes

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

20 mins

Total time

30 mins

 

Author: Lauren Gray

Serves: 18

Ingredients

• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1¼ teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ⅔ cup whole milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl
3. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy
4. Beat in eggs one at a time
5. Mix in vanilla
6. Beat in half the flour
7. Add milk
8. Add food coloring to preference, about 2 tbsp
9. Beat in remaining flour until just combined
10. Fill cupcake liners about ½ to ¾ full
11. Bake 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
12. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes
13. Remove from pan and cool completely on write rack before frosting

3.2.2807

After seeing my insides turned blue from my TARDIS cupcakes, I was a little more conservative with the food dye this time around. I didn’t like that my cupcakes were so flat – next time I’ll probably just do 12, and fill them more.