Witch's Broom Halloween Cupcakes | Cookies & Cups

By: Shelly
Posted: Oct 7, 2024

Make enjoyable and straightforward Halloween cupcakes embellished to appear to be witch’s brooms! They’re the proper deal with in your Halloween occasion or spooky celebration.

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Witch's broom Halloween cupcakes on a wooden platter lined with black and white striped paper.

Why I Love These Halloween Cupcakes

How cute are these witch’s broom Halloween cupcakes?! As somebody who grew up traumatized by the Depraved Witch of the West, I’ve come a good distance. These are a enjoyable and EASY Halloween occasion dessert which you could make with a batch of your favourite cake batter, embellished to appear to be witchy broomsticks. Right here’s what makes this tutorial so nice:

Good for events. These cupcake brooms look so candy on a Halloween dessert desk! They’re nice for events they usually don’t take a ton of prep.
Make them from scratch, or not. Use your favourite home made cupcake recipe or a field of cake combine, it’s as much as you. The identical goes for the buttercream frosting.
Straightforward method. You don’t have to be a professional cake decorator to grasp these witchy cupcakes. The method may be very easy, and also you don’t even want a piping bag to create the broom design. A Ziploc bag with the nook snipped off works, too!

What you need to decorate witch's broom Halloween cupcakes with text labels over each ingredient.

What You’ll Want

Let’s have a fast take a look at what you’ll have to make these witchy cupcakes, both from scratch or semi-homemade. Scroll all the way down to the recipe card for a printable record together with the total tutorial.

Cupcakes – Any cupcake recipe you’d like! I’ve simple recipes for vanilla cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes, and these pumpkin cupcakes are nice for Halloween. You can too use a store-bought field of cake combine.
Frosting – Select your favourite store-bought or home made vanilla frosting.
Meals Coloring – I like to recommend gel meals coloring, for dying the frosting vibrant yellow, like the top of a brush. AmeriColor and Wilton make fashionable gel colours.
Pretzels – You’ll want the pretzel rods, for the broom handles. I like to recommend the plain or salted rods and never any humorous flavors.
Mini Donuts – Any kind you’d like, frosted or unfrosted, just like the mini donuts from Hostess or related.
Fruit Roll-Ups – Who remembers these from childhood lunchboxes? You’ll want one roll-up, which you’ll lower into skinny strips to wrap across the broom handles. Pull-and-peel Twizzlers are one other good choice, or you possibly can pipe purple or black frosting as a substitute.
Piping Bag and Piping Suggestions – I take advantage of the Wilton #48 basket-weave tip to pipe straw-like bristles onto my broom. You can too use a small open-round detailing tip to pipe particular person frosting bristles.

Side view of a witch's broom cupcakes on a wooden tray.

How you can Make Witch’s Broom Cupcakes

This tutorial is tremendous simple, so even when it’s your first time adorning Halloween cupcakes, they’re nearly foolproof! Listed below are the steps. You’ll discover the printable particulars within the recipe card under the put up.

Bake the cupcakes. Put together and bake a batch of cupcakes following the recipe instructions, or the directions on the field in case you’re utilizing cake combine. I bake mine in a mini cupcake pan.
Make the frosting. Subsequent, whip up a batch of vanilla frosting. Colour the frosting yellow utilizing gel meals dyes or related.

A cupcake frosted with yellow frosting on a white plate. — Frost the cupcakes.

Frost the cupcakes. Now, unfold a skinny layer of frosting excessive of every cupcake.
Put together the donuts. If wanted, use the tip of a pointy knife to hole out the facilities of the mini donuts, sufficient so the pretzel rods will match into the holes.

These easy Halloween cupcakes are decorated to look like witch's brooms! It's the perfect fun treat for a Halloween party or celebration. — Add a donut to every cupcake.

Create a “broom” form. Place a mini donut on prime of every cupcake. Stick a pretzel via the donut and into the cupcake to make the broom deal with. Use the yellow frosting to cowl the surface of the donuts.

A piping bag fitted with a basket-weave tip pipes frosting over a mini donut on top of a cupcake. — Pipe frosting over the surface.

Enhance the surface. Utilizing a piping bag fitted with a basket weave tip, pipe extra frosting over the donut to make the broom bristles.
End and revel in! Lastly, wrap a chunk of Fruit Roll-up across the base of the pretzel. Pipe a small ring of frosting across the prime of the Fruit Roll-up, and your witches’ brooms are able to eat.

Close up of witch's broom Halloween cupcakes on a wooden platter lined with black and white striped paper.

Suggestions for Success

For those who don’t have a piping bag or piping suggestions, you possibly can nonetheless embellish these Halloween cupcakes. Fill a small Ziploc baggie with the yellow frosting and snip off the nook. Use the tip to pipe skinny “bristles” over the mini donuts as a substitute.
Exchange the donuts. As an alternative of donuts, you possibly can create a “broom” form utilizing Reese’s Minis, which have a taller form than common Reese’s peanut butter cups. Add a Reese’s Mini to every cupcake, stick a pretzel within the heart, and frost the surface as regular.
Add sprinkles. You may get inventive with any additional decorations you’d like! End these Halloween cupcakes with a sprinkle of black and orange jimmies or nonpareils or sanding sugar.

Side view of a witch's broom cupcake with more decorated Halloween cupcakes on a wooden tray in the background,

How you can Retailer Frosted Cupcakes

At room temperature. The embellished Halloween cupcakes will final for 3 days at room temperature. Retailer the frosted cupcakes in an hermetic container.
Freeze. I like to recommend freezing the cupcakes earlier than frosting and adorning. Retailer them in a freezer-safe container or freezer bag and freeze them for as much as 2 months. Thaw the cupcakes within the fridge earlier than adorning.

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Description

These witch’s broom Halloween cupcakes are a enjoyable and straightforward deal with to make in your Halloween occasion or spooky celebration. Make them with home made cupcakes or use your favourite boxed cake combine!

Cupcakes
Frosting
Yellow meals coloring
Pretzel rods
Mini donuts
Fruit Roll-Ups, lower into skinny strips

Bake your cupcakes in a mini cupcake pan following the recipe instructions, or the directions on the field of cake combine.
Put together a batch of vanilla frosting and add a number of drops of yellow meals coloring. Combine to mix.
Unfold a skinny layer of frosting over every cupcake.
Use a pointy knife to hole out the facilities of the mini donuts so the pretzel rods match into the holes. Place a mini donut on prime of every cupcake and press a pretzel via the donut and into the cupcake.
Frost the surface of the donuts with yellow frosting. Then, use a piping bag fitted with a basket weave tip to pipe frosting over the donut.
Wrap a small strip of Fruit Roll-up across the base of the pretzel. Lastly, pipe a small quantity of frosting across the prime of the Fruit Roll-up.