These Frankenstein Candy Cups will make frightfully fun treats for Halloween. Each bright green-colored chocolate cup can be filled with your Welch's Fruit Snacks or your favorite Halloween candy. They make great party favors for kids of all ages.
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I am so excited to share this fun Halloween snack with you today. I am going to share these chocolate Frankenstein Cups and Zombie Candy Cups at my Halloween party. I can't wait to see how my guests react!
Each of these Frankenstein cups is made out of green candy melts and is decorated with candy eyes, black candy melts hair and mouth, and fudge candy bolts.
To get a perfect cup shape, I used a silicone shot glass mold. You simply fill it with melted neon green candy melts, chill it, and unmold it. Then it's ready to be decorated and filled.
The treats are easy to decorate too with candy melts and candy. You will pipe melted black candy melts over the cup to create Frankenstein's hair. Then, you add a scar and a silly smile. Add two candy eyes and two chocolate candy bolts and the cups are ready to fill with candy.
I filled my chocolate cups with Welch's Mixed Fruit Fruit Snacks. One small pouch fits perfectly in a cup.
So, let's make some Frankenstein cups.
Ingredients
neon green candy melts
black candy melts
jumbo candy eyes
Tootsie Roll Midgees
Welch's Fruit Snacks or other candy to fill the cups
Supplies
silicone shot glass mold
disposable pastry bag, squeeze bottle, or zip-top bag
Instructions
Make green-colored chocolate shot glasses.
- Set a silicone shot glass on a baking tray that will fit into your freezer.
- Pipe melted green candy melts into a silicone shot glass mold.
- Tap the mold a few times to allow the air bubbles to rise to the surface and pop.
- Fill the mold completely.
- Freeze for 10-15 minutes until the chocolate shot glasses are hard.
- Remove and unmold.
Decorate the cup to look like Frankenstein.
- Fill a disposable pastry bag, squeeze bottle, or zip-top bag with melted black candy melts.
- Pipe drips of black candy melts over the top edge of the green cup to create Frankenstein's hai.
- Cut a Tootsie Roll Midgee in half. Pipe a dot of black candy melts on the cut side of one half and press it onto the cup. Attach the second half on the opposite side of the cup.
- Use candy melts to attach two candy eyes to the front of the cup.
- Pipe a squiggly mouth and a scar onto the cup.
- Freeze for 3 minutes just long enough for the black candy melts to harden.
- Repeat, creating more chocolate Frankensteins.
Fill with fruit snacks or candy.
I filled each of my candy cups with one small 0.9-ounce pouch of Welch's Fruit Snacks. I love how the colors pop against the bright green-colored cups.
Video
Watch this video to see how you can quickly make and decorate your own Frankenstein Snack Cups filled with Welch's Fruit Snacks.
Tips
- It's best to pop the snack cups in the freezer to allow the black hair to harden before decorating further.
- Don't allow your snack cups to sit in the freezer for more than about 15 minutes otherwise, they can get sticky.
- You can, if you prefer, just use a plastic cup as a mold like I did when I made my Santa Suit Candy Cups. I have a video tutorial showing you how to use that method too.
Storage
Store your candy cups at room temperature in a cool dry place for up to 2 months. They will taste best if eaten within a few weeks. They will be safe to eat for up to six months but will start to lose their sweet vanilla flavor over time.
Variations
You can also decorate these green candy cups to look like zombies. Check out the recipe to make these Zombie Candy Cups filled with bloody candy bones.
Related Recipes
You can make edible cups or bowls using other items like plastic cups, bowls, or balloons.
Red Solo Cup Truffles are made using plastic shot glasses as molds.
Pumpkin Chocolate Bowls are made using plastic bowls as molds.
White Chocolate Jack Skellington Bowls made using balloons.
Recipe
- 24 ounces vibrant green candy melts, melted
- 4 ounces black candy melts, melted
- 16 candy eyes
- 8 Tootsie Roll Midgees
- 8 (0.9 oz) pouches Welch's Fruit Snacks, Mixed Fruit (or other Halloween candy)
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Pour the melted green candy into a disposable pastry bag.
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Pipe the candy into 8 cavities of a silicone shot glass mold.
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Tap the mold to remove air bubbles.
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Freeze for 10-12 minutes until the candy hardens.
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Remove and push snack cups out of the mold.
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Set aside for 10 minutes so the candy comes to room temperature.
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Pour black candy melts into a disposable pastry bag.
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Pipe dribbles of candy over the top edge of the snack cups forming the monster's black hair.
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Use the black candy to attach two candy eyes to each snack cup just under the black hair.
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Attach two chocolate fudge rolls on either side of the snack cups, placing them near the bottom edge.
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Pipe on a scar using black candy.
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Freeze for 3 minutes until the candy hardens.
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Fill with Welch's Fruit Snacks.
Store these chocolate Frankenstein cups at room temperature for up to 2 months.
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Dianne A Russell says
These are so creative,adorable and no doubt, will delight children (young and old). I asked my lovely neighbour, prior to Halloween this year, if she had preferences for her beloved older daughter to recieve as a Halloween treat. She told me Gabby was NUTS about STRAWBERRIES, which I presented in a rugged albeit beautiful oversized ceramic tea cup with black & white florals (as I could NOT find any non plastic/scented receptacle). I bedecked the cup with orange and black handtied ribbons. Gabby loved not only the whole food treat (which she genrously shared with her friend) but the cup itself...which surprised..and delighted me. I typically deliver flowers from my garden in vases/footed crystal glasses etcetera owned by me, which she cheerfully returns, and she loves the presentation of these small (floral) gifts. I'm going to reproduce a ceramic version INSPIRED by your design (yet not copied, as I respect your creative process & origionality). I am also sending a chop of your recipe to my friends (with your name/webpage etc retained). I know they will love this (and the zombie cups). Well done.
Beth Klosterboer says
Hi Dianne, I'm so glad you like the Frankenstein Cups. I think they will make a great design for a ceramic version. I do hope your friend likes her festive gift. It sounds like you put a lot of love into your gifts. Your friends are lucky to receive such unique treasures.
Jackie says
Cant wait to start making all the goodies
Jane Andujar says
I can’t wait to get started 😊
Beth says
Have fun!!!