These Halloween Unicorn Cupcakes are made with boxed cake mix, homemade vanilla frosting and edible unicorn icing decorations for an easy treat to serve at your next Halloween party.
1box French Vanilla cake mixplus ingredients as listed on the back of the cake mix box
Purple gel food coloring
Orange gel food coloring
For The Frosting:
3Cunsalted sweet cream buttersoftened
6Cpowdered sugar
5-7tbsp.heavy whipping cream
2tsp.vanilla extract
Neon Green gel food coloring
Halloween sprinkles
For The Decoration:
Wilton Unicorn Icing decorations
Instructions
Cupcake Instructions:
Preheat oven per directions on the box of cake mix.
Put the liners in the muffin pan. Set aside.
Following the directions on the box, add ingredients into a large bowl and mix all ingredients as instructed.
Divide the batter into two bowls.
In one bowl, mix in a few drops of purple food coloring. In the other bowl, mix in a few drops of orange food coloring.
Alternate between the purple batter and the orange batter and scoop about 1 tablespoon of batter into the cupcake liners until ⅔ full.
Put in the oven and bake for 22 minutes.
Check for doneness. (Insert a toothpick into the center of a cupcake, it should come out clean.) If they are not done, check again every three minutes until they are done.
Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting Directions:
Using a standing mixer combine the butter, powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, vanilla, and mix on medium speed until combined and smooth.
Mix in a few drops of neon green gel food coloring and mix until combined.
Scoop 1 cup of frosting into the piping bag.
Decorating Directions:
Using the medium ice cream scooper, scoop some frosting onto the top of the cupcake.
Using a butterknife, lightly spread the frosting into a thick smooth disk.
Pour the halloween sprinkles into a small bowl and dip the entire frosting into the sprinkles.
Using the piping bag, pipe a dollop of frosting into the center of the cupcake.
Using the Unicorn Horn icing decoration, place it into the top middle of the frosting.
Place 1 "Ear" on both sides of the horn.
Serve and Enjoy!
Nutrition information is a rough estimate only; actual values will vary based on the exact ingredients used and amount of recipe prepared.