As it is close to Hallowe’en here is a tutorial on how to decorate your own spook-tacular graveyard cupcake(s)! Wow your friends, family and party guests with these ghoulish cupcakes; they’re sure to liven up a Hallowe’en do!
What you need:
Green buttercream ready in a piping bag with a grass tip ( we used Wilton’s Leaf Green colouring with our Ateco grass tip… for piping bags why not try our Ateco disposable bags!)
A pizza cutter
Grey sugarpaste (We coloured ours with a little bit of Black by Wilton)
A medium size circle cookie cutter
Icing sugar
Paintbrush
Fondant rolling pin
Cookie crumbles or black chocolate crumble
Cupcake(s) (We used our Halloween cupcake kit by Meri Meri)
Step one: Roll out your grey sugarpaste rather thick
Step two: Use your circular cookie cutter to cut half a circle out of your paste. To do this tilt the cutter in and do not press the full cutter down.
Step three: Use the pizza cutter to cut the straight sides of the gravestone including the bottom.
Step four: Brush icing sugar onto your ‘stone’ to create an aged look.
Step five: Using the end of your brush carefully write out R.I.P. You can also use small letter cutters for this! Now wait for your ‘stone’ to set and harden upon an icing sugar dusted surface.
Step six: Take your cupcake(s) and your piping bag of green buttercream and pipe your grass detail atop the cake(s)!
Step seven: Take your gravestone and press it into your buttercream. For extra support you can stick two toothpicks behind the ‘stone’.
Step eight: Take your cookie crumble or black chocolate crumble and sprinkle along the the gravestone to mimic soil! Hurrah! Now enjoy your fiendishly fun cupcake(s)!
