Just Halloween Crafts

Chocolate orange cupcakes are sweet and zesty at the same time. They have a classic flavour combination with the chocolate cupcake base and delicious citrus orange buttercream frosting. These chocolate orange cupcakes are the perfect treat for Halloween and Thanksgiving with their beautiful Fall and autumnal colors. It is a taste that is hard to beat with the melt-in-the-mouth chocolate cake and smooth yet tangy frosting. A divine pairing of flavors. Discover how you can bake these delicious chocolate cupcakes with orange buttercream frosting for Fall, Halloween or anytime you want to. For added indulgence, add a couple of slices of Terry's Chocolate Orange on top.

Discover how you can make some deliciously hairy Hobbit feet cookies for Halloween. Novelty vanilla sugar cookies with chocolate hair are a fun project for Lord of the Rings fans to bake and eat. Hobbit feet cookies, which luckily have a delicious fragrance of chocolate and vanilla instead of feet, are a really fun baking project. Easy to do, make some foot shaped vanilla biscuits or cookies and add on some melted chocolate icing. Using a foot shaped cookie cutter makes this nice and simple. You'll find step-by-step photos on this page which show you exactly how to make some feet that you'd expect to see on Bilbo or Frodo Baggins. Perfect little sweet treats for kids birthday parties, Hobbit themed Halloween events and more.

Here's some ghoulishly good zombie cookies recipe for Halloween. This easy recipe features gruesome zombie feet with a marbled green and yellow fondant "skin" which is covered in festering sores. Eat the cookie body parts before the zombies come and feast on you. Zombie cookie feet are a ghastly but very easy to make sweet treat for Halloween and zombie themed parties. The gross looking zombie feet cookies should really get your guests spooked. These are quick and easy to make using a foot shaped cookie cutter. Luckily the feet taste a whole lot nicer than they look because they're vanilla sugar cookies topped with sweet fondant icing. They're a really fun project for which you use ready to roll icing. Assembling the gruesome feet is an easy and fun task.

Rustle up some eerie looking edibles for your Fall party this year. Here's plenty of chilling and creepy yet easy ideas for decorating some themed Halloween cupcakes in an easy step by step format. Included are ideas for quick and easy to make spider, witch, zombie, eyeball, alien, chocolate orange creepy cakes and more. All these terrifying treats are nice and easy to make but look hauntingly good for any spooktacular party or event.  Even if you can't cook, then cheat. Buy some ready-made chocolate cupcakes and use the ideas on this page to decorate them up in style. No one needs to know that you didn't make them right from scratch. Here's 7 quick and easy Halloween cupcake ideas with instructions on how to decorate.

I'll show you how to make some very easy and quick pirate cupcakes for a themed pirate Halloween party or birthday celebration. You'll find out how to decorate either your own homemade or some ready-made cakes that you've bought with a simple, fun and easy treasure theme. These really eye-catching pirate cupcake designs can be made by anyone from young kids with supervision to adults. They look tempting enough to go on show for a birthday or other occasion. You can create these cake designs even if you can't actually cook. The whole focus is on getting the decoration right and not whether or not you're great at baking. So come and see how you can make this popular sweet treat for your budding little swashbucklers. Above all, enjoy it and have fun.

If you're hosting a fun party for Halloween, making up some Fall season or even Thanksgiving themed savory snacks, here's a selection of great ideas for serving dips that work beautifully with this celebration. You'll discover how you can make your own cute miniature style pumpkins that can hold edibles for this occasion as well as being presented with a novelty range of themed containers and bowls. Carving mini faces with your choice of expression into orange fruit makes a fun Halloween craft that adults and older children can enjoy. Come see how to make these mini snack holders which every bit as good as the Jack ‘O’ Lantern style bowls that you can buy online.

Last Halloween, I needed to come up with some sweet treats for an impromptu little party that we had. I'm not much of a baker and I'm really impatient with cooking too so whatever ideas I came up with had to be quick and easy to create. The spider theme seemed like a good choice to go with for Halloween since pretty much everyone associates these with the spook-time season. So I came up with an idea that involved just a little amount of work and looked fun on the day. Since I was in a bit of a hurry, I just made up some plain little vanilla sponge cakes, popped them into bright orange cases and added my chocolate web designs on top.

Here's some easy to make and fun ideas for Halloween party snacks and appetizers to satisfy savory cravings. I know from previous experience how hard it often is to get some sensible ideas and inspiration for savory food. Not everyone has a sweet tooth. Last year, I hunted for savory Halloween snack and appetizer ideas but ended up having to rustle up my own. So this spook-time season, you won't have to look to the exact same extent that I did seeing as there are already suggestions here for you to use. With this particular fun time of year, you can definitely get away with relying on the presentation of the food. You don't have to learn a ton of new recipes because you can easily buy in items and just present them in a manner which will suit the season.

If you're looking for a perfect sized container to hold dips for a Halloween party or occasion, large orange fruit are just the perfect shape and size to use and they can easily be carved to look just like a small version of a Jack O' Lantern too. These DIY mini pumpkin dip bowls are much more inexpensive to use than real pumpkins and means you can use many different ones for all your snacks and appetizers. Luckily making this mini pot or dip bowl is fairly easy to do and makes for a fun DIY job. First, you need 1 large orange for each dip that you’re going to have. I made my containers on the actual day of the party, but you could make them the day before and then store them in the refrigerator.

Some truly eerie cupcakes to use for your Halloween treats are ones that are sure to give your friends and visitors a bit of an evil eye before they tuck in! I am, of course, talking about ones that have prominent eyeballs stuck on top. Luckily Halloween eyeball cupcakes are nice and easy to make and they look great for those zombie themed parties and events too. You'll discover how to make these gruesome but ghoulishly good treats right here. These creepy little delights are perfect for all spooky parties and occasions. If you'd love to freak out your guests a lot more then think about using some bloodshot eye toppers or some that glow rather eerily in the dark. You need to watch out for the cakes that are quite literally watching you.

Making a zombie themed cupcake is a hauntingly good idea to use for Halloween and other spooky occasions. Perhaps just because you're a fan of The Walking Dead even. You can get a fiendishly good feast of ideas and inspiration on decorating these zombie cakes here on this page with some simple instructions and images to view. You don't need to spend all your time baking because these are easy to cook up in a flash.  Alternatively, try the no-bake version by simply purchasing some ready made little cakes in chocolate or vanilla and then decorating them using the gory ideas shown below.

English Trifle is a dessert dish that we love to eat. In case you don't know what this is, it normally comes either in one large glass dish for sharing or in separate glass dishes. There are many variations on these English desserts but Jello, Custard and Cream are the three main parts. Using the Jello brain made in our previous post (link in the ingredients) you can make this Zombie brain jello trifle.  Trifle has a layer of jello (Jelly UK) set right at the bottom and sometimes this has pieces of sponge cake in there although we prefer to leave that out. The middle section is really thick custard and the top is whipped cream.

Jello (known as Jelly in the UK) is quick and easy to rustle up for parties, dinners and events and many kids and adults like to eat it. There are lots of fun shaped molds that you can buy for occasions such as Halloween. One of my favorite molds is this brain shaped one which I've used a number of times and in different color combinations. Learn this fun Jello brain mold recipe to use for your Halloween entertaining and parties. Solid colors look fine but by adding evaporated milk into the mix, you can turn your plain translucent Jello into something that looks more like real flesh. I managed to get this rather two-tone effect with mine which looked pretty cool.

Making really awesome looking cupcakes for specific occasions and themes such as Halloween can be quite a frightful challenge for those of us who are not what you'd call natural bakers. I'll admit that when I'm really pressed for time I will happily  cheat  and go out and buy some ready or pre-made cupcakes which are already frosted. That's most of the hard work taken care of! Then I'll just add on a few little decorations to make them into more of my own creation.  And also, I'm sure many people will agree, it can be pretty time consuming to just whip up a nice batch of cakes and then spend an age decorating them. That's when I'll use clever little toppers, cupcake picks and also edible sprinkles and decorations like candy.

Chocolate spider webs are fairly quick to make up and lots of fun too, especially for themed parties and for spooky celebrations such as Halloween. Although you can certainly enjoy eating these just as they are, they do really work much better used as fun and edible decorations. These chocolate spider webs look great decorating cakes and cupcakes where they can be applied as rather creepy and edible cupcake toppers. You can see a demonstration of that in my photo. Apart from eating the chocolate spider webs whole or using them as cake toppers, these intricate designs also look good for other desserts and puddings. Use them placed on the top of desserts such as trifle, homemade cheesecakes and chocolate pot puddings too.