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    Home » Recipes » Halloween

    Vampire Cupcakes

    Modified: Mar 4, '24 · Published: Sep 2, '17 · By: Beth Klosterboer · Commission earned on paid or sponsored links.

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    Top a chocolate cupcake with a big swirl of chocolate frosting and a white Reese's Cup vampire. These Vampire Cupcakes are frighteningly cute for Halloween.

    vampire cupcakes decorated with white Reese's Cup vampires.

    I am always so excited when Halloween season rolls around. I know many of you are thinking it's way too early to be sharing Halloween desserts, but I just can't help myself. I had so much fun designing these Dracula Cupcakes to share with you.

    For the past few years, I have been designing a lot of cupcakes using Reese's Cups. I just love how the Reese's Cups add dimension to the cupcakes. Perched atop a big swirl of frosting they make the perfect head for an animal or in this case, a vampire.

    To make these frighteningly cute Dracula Cupcakes I used White Chocolate Reese's Cups. They were the perfect color for the pale-faced vampires.

    cute Halloween cupcakes including vampires, werewolves, and a black cat.

    Aren't they sweet? They will go great with a pack of Reese's Cup Werewolf Cupcakes and Black Cat Cupcakes for your Halloween party.

    These desserts will definitely take some time to decorate, but they are showstoppers. They look spectacular on a food table. Plus they are very filling so there's really no need to serve any other dessert to your party guests. Actually, some people will think they are too big to eat and will want to share.

    NOTES:

    • When making black frosting it's best to start with chocolate frosting. It already has a deep dark color, it tastes great and is much easier to color using black food coloring.
    • I love homemade frosting but when I'm designing and making just a few treats I find it much easier to use Wilton's ready-made icing. Both the chocolate and vanilla versions taste great and are quite stiff so they hold a nice peak on cupcakes like this.
    • If you have nice firm frosting you don't absolutely need to add the Pocky Stick to the back of the Reese's Cup. They do add support and will keep your peanut butter cups upright on the cupcake even during transportation.
    • I use Pocky Sticks because they taste great and are long enough to poke into the cupcake for support.
    • If you prefer, you can use Candy Clay or fondant to create the bow tie and collar for your vampire cupcakes.

    Supplies

    Find the supplies needed to make these Dracula Cupcakes on Amazon (commission earned for sales).

    Wilton Black Vanilla Candy ...Shop on AmazonWilton Bright White Candy M...Shop on AmazonBETTY CROCKER FRUIT ROLL UP...Shop on AmazonWilton Creamy White Decorat...Shop on AmazonWilton Ready To Use Decorat...Shop on Amazon

    Video

    Be sure to watch the video in the recipe card below to see how to decorate these vampire cupcakes.

    RECIPE

    vampire cupcakes decorated with white Reese's Cup vampires.
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    Vampire Cupcakes
    Prep Time
    45 mins
    Total Time
    45 mins
     
    White Reese's Cups decorated like vampires top a big swirl of frosting on chocolate cupcakes.
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: Cupcakes
    Keyword: dracula cupcakes, halloween desserts
    Servings: 6 people
    Calories: 500 kcal
    Author: Beth Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    • 6 White Reese's Cups
    • 2 ounces Black Candy Melts, melted
    • 1 ounce White Candy Melts, melted
    • 2 cups chocolate frosting, colored black
    • 6 chocolate cupcakes
    • ⅓ cup white frosting
    • 3 red fruit roll sheets
    Instructions
    1. Unwrap Reese's Cups.
    2. Using a food use only paint brush, paint a black candy melts widow's peak (hair) onto each Reese's Cup.
    3. Add two eyes, a mouth and two eyebrows.
    4. Pop the candy into the freezer for a minute or two until the black candy melts harden.
    5. Add a tiny white candy melts highlight in each eye and add two fangs to the mouth.
    6. Allow the candy to harden.
    7. Dip a Pocky Stick in black candy melts.
    8. Set it on a piece of parchment paper.
    9. Set one Reese's Cup vampire on top so the Pocky Stick acts like a lollipop stick.
    10. Allow that candy to harden.
    11. Pipe a big swirl of black frosting on a chocolate cupcake.
    12. Insert the Pocky Stick with the vampire into the frosting.
    13. Pipe white frosting onto the black frosting swirl to make a ruffled shirt for the vampire.
    14. Cut collars and bow ties out of fruit rolls.
    15. Wrap one collar around the frosting swirl just under the vampire's head.
    16. Add a bow tie to the ruffled white frosting.

    Recipe Video

    Recipe Notes

    Store your vampire cupcakes at room temperature for up to 3 days. 

    Find over 100 cute and creepy Halloween treats and snacks. Follow the Halloween recipes step-by-step & video tutorials to recreate the most amazing Halloween cupcakes, cookies, rice krispie treats, chocolates, candies, appetizers, and more. Kids of all ages will go nuts over these fun Halloween food ideas .

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    1. tavette says

      September 20, 2018 at 2:20 pm

      It's NEVER too early to think about Halloween goodies and you have the best deas! These little Draculas are sweet in their own way.

      Where did you find the white Reeses Cups? I typically have trouble finding them. Haven't looked at Walgreens yet which has been where I've seen them sometimes. Thanks.

      If all else fails, I guess you could get chocolate Reeses cups and dip them in white chocolate. DOUBLE chocolate - whoa...…..

      Tavette - S. Fla.

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      • Beth says

        September 20, 2018 at 4:00 pm

        Hi Tavette, if you can't find the White Reese's Cups in stores, you can get them from amazon here - https://amzn.to/2xLiFXt.

        Sadly they aren't as easy to find as they used to be. If you can't find the white ones you could attach a circle of white modeling chocolate to a regular Reese's Cup. I hope you are able to find some!

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    2. The Partiologist says

      September 07, 2017 at 10:04 am

      These are to DIE for, I love how cute Dracula can be!

      Reply
      • Beth says

        September 09, 2017 at 9:54 am

        You are too funny!

        Reply
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