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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
Unwrap Reese's Cups.
Using a food use only paint brush, paint a black candy melts widow's peak (hair) onto each Reese's Cup.
Add two eyes, a mouth and two eyebrows.
Pop the candy into the freezer for a minute or two until the black candy melts harden.
Add a tiny white candy melts highlight in each eye and add two fangs to the mouth.
Allow the candy to harden.
Dip a Pocky Stick in black candy melts.
Set it on a piece of parchment paper.
Set one Reese's Cup vampire on top so the Pocky Stick acts like a lollipop stick.
Allow that candy to harden.
Pipe a big swirl of black frosting on a chocolate cupcake.
Insert the Pocky Stick with the vampire into the frosting.
Pipe white frosting onto the black frosting swirl to make a ruffled shirt for the vampire.
Cut collars and bow ties out of fruit rolls.
Wrap one collar around the frosting swirl just under the vampire's head.
Add a bow tie to the ruffled white frosting.
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Recipe Notes
Store your vampire cupcakes at room temperature for up to 3 days.