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Remember these spider cupcakes from last year?

As Halloween approaches it’s good to stock up on some fun sprinkles and coloured icing for all those spooky baking projects you might have in mind.

Last year Sam really got into decorating Halloween biscuits and cakes, so I’m definitely going to get out the cookie cutters and writing icing again this year. It also makes a brilliant playdate activity. If you’re looking for recipe inspiration I put these spider cupcakes together last year for Parentdish, and have some recipes up my sleeve for this year which i’ll be sharing with you v.soon!

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Dr Oetker have a fab range of products for decorating your ghoulish bakes, and they’ve sent me these to try and also another bundle to giveaway to one of you lucky lot!

The Prize

1 x Regal-Ice Ready to Roll Icing – contains 5 x 100g packs
1x Writing icing – contains 5 tubes
1 x 55g Citrus Flavour Strands – vivid orange and yellow
1 x 45g Soft Gold Pearls
1 x 125ml can Cake Release Spray

 

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Comments

  1. Tracy Nixon says

    Creepy Crawly Crispy Cakes, and we are decorating small sponge cakepops as witches, ghosts and pumpkins – thought they would be nice to offer trick or treaters! There are loads of ideas out there now – Halloween is FAB!

  2. Tracy Nixon says

    Creepy Crawly Crispy Cakes, and we are decorating small sponge cakepops as witches, ghosts and pumpkins – thought they would be nice to offer trick or treaters! There are loads of ideas out there now – Halloween is FAB! (May have posted twice as server error when tried first time? – sorry!)

  3. Michelle G says

    I make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and decorate them with cola laces and other sweets to look like spiders, they go down well. Also the sausage rolls dipped in ketchup that look like bloodied fingers. I love celebrating Halloween, any excuse for a party 🙂

  4. Michelle G says

    I make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and decorate them with cola laces and other sweets to look like spiders, they go down well. Also the sausage rolls dipped in ketchup that look like bloodied fingers. I love celebrating Halloween, any excuse for a party 🙂 (Also says server error)

  6. Angela Webster says

    I’ve seen a recipe for some eyeball cakepops, the sponge for them is red so I will be having a go at that.

  8. Katie Skeoch says

    going to make jelly eyeballs as usual, daddy always gets a fright when we serve them up to him!!

  9. Cheryll H says

    Jelly worms – not exactly baking I know but I saw an article about making jelly worms using straws and grossing the kids out by eating worms for breakfast ha ha ha 🙂

  11. Bernadette Davies says

    I really want to give cupcakes a try and this would really inspire me to get going rather than just talking about it! Those spider ones look tasty!

  12. Lindsey Jones says

    Moshi Monster eyeball cakes bought a mix and they were lovely so going to give it a go myself from sctratch.

  13. Louise says

    What fun bakes are you planning on making this Halloween? – planning on making some cookies with a halloween theme

  23. Inga says

    I don’t usually bake anything special but those spider cake looks sooooo good I’m going to give them a go

  26. Caroline Clarke says

    I found a recipe for some AWESOME Jack Skellington cookies. I think they’d go down very well this Halloween.

  32. cathyj says

    we usually make cupcakes, that are blood red in colour, and the kids put their own decorations on top, a few yrs ago we found edible pictures of zombies, ghosts etc, that was great

  37. Sarah Birkett says

    spaghetti in jelly is always fun to look at and play with, homemade pizza with red or gree dye, and good old fashioned cupcakes

  38. Helen says

    I plan on making some ghostly cake pops and some cupcakes with a gooey red liquid inside to resemble blood, I want something runnier than jam but something that won’t make the cakes soggy but I’m struggling to find anything.

  44. Jenny says

    Hadn’t even thought of Halloween bakes til I saw this but the kids love baking so can’t wait to give it a go 😀

  47. Ashleigh says

    we are going to try and make pumpkin cake pops this year – my sister makes cake pops all the time but first time for us!

  58. Rachael G says

    A gorgeous chocolate cake decorated with a spiderweb pattern and rice paper spider toppers is what I am planning!

  67. Ali Thorpe says

    I”m in charge of the cake. At the moment, I’m planning a design based around a carved pumpkin (choc and orange) or a spiders web (vanilla and choc)!

  73. EMMA WALTERS says

    really want to make something with the left over pumpkin, will have to search for a recipe 🙂

  89. Clare Woodman says

    We will be making raisin muffins with chocolate icing and edible spiders, cobwebs, witches and ghosts – dead cool 🙂

  92. Cath says

    Worm cakes always go down well. I make a small hollow in the top of the cake and then cover in butter icing. I use the sugar coated sour worms and push them into the hole so it looks like they are crawling oout of the cake!

  93. Caroline H says

    Marzipan pumpkins – like the marzipan fruits you used to get at Christmas, blood red toffee apples and a witch’s hat cake.

  97. emma cella says

    I make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and decorate them with cola laces and other sweets to look like spiders

  98. Rachel Murray says

    Mini Pumpkin cakes.

    Hubby bought some silicon Pumpkin shaped (with faces) moulds, so we’re going to bake cakes and when they’re half cooked we’re going to insert some kind of ooooooozing red yummy-ness filling so when you bite into it it oozes out and looks a bit like blood (OK, a bit gruesome lol).

    • Rachel Murray says

      Would like to add that I would bake them for the remainder of the time once the red filling has been inserted

  105. Michelle Kinsey says

    We have bought some pumpkin silicone cupcake moulds from our local £1 shop, so are going to make some of those. Yum. Can’t wait. Also going to try and make some toffee apples x

  108. Joanne Mapp says

    A really easy and great treat for haloween is to make up some lime jelly and set it in a rubber glove. Once set, cut off the glove and add sultanas as warts and red smarties as fingernails.

  111. nikki lane says

    We made a Graveyard Chocolate Cake with Merengue ghosts last year, and have been asked to make again this year. Also doing Chocolate Rice Krispie Ghosts on sticks, Jelly Worms, and Pumpkin Ginger Bread Biscuits. That’s just for starters. lol. 🙂

  125. Louisa Golding says

    I always make Halloween cookies, in the shapes of skulls, spider and pumpkins and decorate them with orange and black icing!

  129. Zoe W says

    We always love decorating Halloween cupcakes in our house, using licorice strings for spiders legs and orange colouring to make pumpkins.

  135. Diana Cotter says

    I’d love to attempt some firework cupcakes instead of the good, solid Parkin I make every year 🙂

    • Diana Cotter says

      Sorry – getting tired & confused Halloween & bonfire! I think I’ll make a giant pumpkin cake and hope it turns into a beautiful carriage 🙂

  137. Caroles says

    Love the picture of spider cupcakes. I’ll make jelly belly eyeballs too and pumpkin pie.

  138. Hannah Rowley says

    Chocolate and Vanilla cupcakes with Orange and Black buttercream icing with fondant Pumpkins and Bats

  154. Emma Jackson says

    Ooh I love making Halloween food! 😀 I make severed finger chicken strips, pumpkin pie, pizza jack o lantern, black cat biscuits and spider cupcakes

  156. kim winter says

    I’m going to use the leftover pumpkin and turn them into pumpkin and chocolate brownies!

  169. ann weir says

    scary biscuits with tangfastics on top lol, not sure how many will make it onto the cakes though!

  186. Sarah Walford says

    My Son’s birthday is on Halloween so we always have a Halloween theme for his party and this year we have cakes shaped as little Ghosts!!!!

  187. carol stirmey says

    I plan to use marsh mallows, pink and white, to make ‘happy’ spiders, and decorate with icing and allsorts

  193. Yvonne Brownsea says

    We’re having our first Hallowe’en party ever. Kids first, adults later and I’m going to make all manner of gruesome treats. A big centre piece cake made to look like a bleeding heart for the adults and a big centre piece cake made to look like a brain for the kids. I’m making devil cupcakes, spider cupcakes, pumpkin cupcakes and tombstone cupcakes and also cheese straw witches fingers amongst other things!

  201. Sam says

    I usually make a chocolate cake and decorate it to look like a pumpkin – this year I might try making a cake in a pyrex bowl x 2 & ice together to make a proper round pumpkin.

  203. jo says

    i’ll be making gingerbread ghosts, monster cupcakes, pumpkin cookies and maybe some other scary biscuits! yes, we love halloween!

  208. rebecca denyer says

    We are carving a pumpkin and my son is desperate to try pumpkin pie although i dont fancy it myself hes been watching too much american kids tv

  210. NICOLA T says

    I wasn’t really planning on making anything but if i won then i could possibly make some squash cakes having picked my last 2 squashes.

  212. kerry Locke says

    Pumpkin Cobbler- Pumpkin soup – Pumpkin pie – infact anything I can put pumpkin in!!!! We even make pumpkin syrup for our hot chocolate !!!

  215. Gabrielle Svensson says

    I’m making spooky Halloween cookies decorated to look like ghosts, pumpkins and bats.

  220. Ian Dowson says

    Gooey Green Slime cupcakes, a bowl full of eyeball jelly mix, some spider leg cheese straws and if I have time, a brain jellycake 🙂

  224. Samantha Ripley says

    We found a great bat biscuit cutter in our local market so we plan to make and decorate biscuits

  227. Sarah Evans says

    The grandchildren are staying over so we’ll be making halloween biscuits of ghosts and spiders!

  231. Linda says

    A chocolate rum and raising mud cake with chocolate icing and fudge pieces – strictly for adults of course.
    Some iced buns with scary faces and Smartie cookies for the children.

  237. Dawnylou says

    I might do my usual giant cupcake spidercake with Mikado legs and baby spider cupcakes or I might try something new and go for a Gingerbread haunted house!!

  244. Sarah Ballantyne says

    We are making ginger biscuits shaped like pumpkins and witches, and creepy spider cupcakes

  246. Michelle Porter-Reed says

    I too am making gingerbread pumpkins and my sons decorate them with the icing and sprinkles etc

  247. Laura watson says

    scary cupcakes/fairy cakes but reading other comments may pinch a few of your ideas too lol x

  250. Paula Phillips says

    We’ll be making cupcakes and biscuits and will be putting lots of scary decorations on them.

  263. sandra smith says

    the spider cup cakes have inspired me – looks like I will be trying those, they look fab and am sure my grandchildren will think so too 🙂

  275. helenthemadex says

    mud pie with worms (chocolate mousse with jelly worms) and mummies (sausage rolls made to look like little mummies)

  277. Benji Collier says

    Blood and guts jelly, my son’s favourite – strawberry jelly with red liquorice mixed in

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