Description
Create spooky and delightful Vampire Cupcakes featuring white Reese’s Cups transformed into vampire heads with black and white candy melts, perched on rich chocolate cupcakes topped with black frosting and decorated with fruit roll collars and bow ties. Perfect for Halloween parties or themed celebrations.
Ingredients
Scale
Vampire Heads
- 6 White Reese’s Cups
- 2 ounces Black Candy Melts (melted)
- 1 ounce White Candy Melts (melted)
Frosting and Cupcakes
- 2 cups chocolate frosting, colored black
- 6 chocolate cupcakes
- 1/3 cup white frosting
- 3 red fruit roll sheets
- 6 Pocky Sticks (for lollipop sticks)
Instructions
- Prepare Vampire Heads: Unwrap the White Reese’s Cups carefully. Using a food-safe paint brush, paint a widow’s peak hairline on each Reese’s Cup with melted black candy melts. Add two eyes, a mouth, and two eyebrows using the black candy melts for facial features.
- Harden Candy Melts: Place the decorated Reese’s Cups in the freezer for 1–2 minutes to allow the black candy melts to harden properly.
- Add Highlights and Fangs: Using melted white candy melts, add a tiny highlight dot in each eye for a gleaming effect and pipette two fang shapes onto the mouth. Allow the white candy melts to harden completely.
- Attach Lollipop Sticks: Dip a Pocky Stick halfway into melted black candy melts and lay it on parchment paper. Place one vampire Reese’s Cup on top so the Pocky Stick acts as a lollipop handle. Let this set until the candy melts harden securely.
- Frost Cupcakes: Pipe a large swirl of black-colored chocolate frosting onto each chocolate cupcake to create a dramatic base for the vampire decoration.
- Insert Vampire Lollipops: Carefully insert the Pocky Stick with the vampire head into the center of the frosting swirl on each cupcake, ensuring it stands upright.
- Create Ruffled Shirts: Using white frosting, pipe ruffled details onto the black frosting swirl to resemble a vampire’s shirt front.
- Make Collars and Bow Ties: Cut collar shapes and bow ties from the red fruit roll sheets. Wrap one collar piece around the white frosting ruffle just beneath the vampire’s head and attach a bow tie on the front to complete the vampire’s attire.
Notes
- Use a small food-safe paint brush to paint the candy melts accurately for detailed vampire features.
- Freezing the candy melts briefly helps them set quickly and maintain shape.
- If Pocky sticks are unavailable, substitute with lollipop sticks or pretzel rods for support.
- Color the chocolate frosting using food coloring to achieve the deep black needed for the vampire theme.
- Be gentle when inserting the vampire lollipops into the frosting to avoid breaking the candy decorations.
- The fruit roll collars and bow ties add a festive and elegant touch and can be customized with other colors.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 500
- Sugar: 38g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 28g
- Saturated Fat: 14g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 58g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 25mg
