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Delectables with Dan: Spooky Skull Cupcakes! 💀



Halloween is right around the corner and my lovely assistant Pork Chop and I are baking up some skull themed delectables for you to share. (Or you can just eat them all yourself, who are we to judge?) This one is a simple one. Nothing really fancy. Cake, icing, jimmies/sprinkles and some candy. As always, links to where to buy some of the things featured are linked below.
What You Will Need: 

Cake
1 devil's food or dark chocolate cake mix 
(and all the things you need to make one; oil, eggs & water)
40g/ 1/4c Halloween jimmies (sprinkles) 

Icing 
140g/5oz butter (softened)
280g/10oz icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
orange food colouring or (red and yellow food colouring)
(you can also use an orange store bought icing if you can find one)

Decorating
6-8 Butterfinger Peanut Butter Skull Cups 
and or
Spooky edible candy skulls 

Make Your Cupcakes!
Empty the contents of your pouch *winks* into a large mixing bowl. Add your eggs, oil and water to the dry mix. With an electric mixture on medium-high speed beat together ingredients. Add in the jimmies to the cake batter and hand stir them in. DO NOT USE MIXER.


Once jimmies have been stirred in or folded into the batter, pour into your cupcake knickers. Fill them up nice, like Chubbs does his. Oh yes, if that doesn't raise one from the dead-What? I'm staying with a spooky, Halloween them...though there isn't anything spooky about some decidant lovemaking. Now I've fucking forgotten where I was going with this. Oh, right the cupcakes. Using a ladle, pour in batter until cupcake's panties are 3/4 full. (You have no idea how much writing that sentence hurt me.) 



Put in to bake at 180C/350F for roughly 20 minutes. (You may need 1-2 minutes more depending on your oven.) After testing to ensure cupcakes are fully baked, remove from baking tin and put into icebox to chill. Once all of your cupcakes are chilled, think Snoop Dogg level of chill, its time to ice these motherfuckers. As in top with icing, not kill. Though, interestingly enough, you will be murdering them as you bite into them and chow down on their delicious flesh.
Make Your Icing!
In a large mixing bowl, like your meat, you're going to beat your softened butter. (In another word, using an electric mixer on low-speed beat/cream your butter. Once your butter is soft, like you are after a good session wither singular or with a friend, add in half of your icing sugar. And like you're with a delicious co-ed who's begging for more, prepare to whip your mixture once again on medium speed until mixture is well blended. Add in 1-2 teaspoons of milk (depending on the thickness of your mixture) and the remainder of the icing sugar. Add in your orange food colouring or your red-yellow food colouring mixture. Your mixture should be a pale, pastel orange in colour. 

*I didn't take photos of making the icing because let's face it, it's not a complicated icing and nobody really gives a fuck.* 

Decorate Me, Dark Daddy Daniel 
No, that's not a request of mine....well, it's not at the moment, but it will be soon enough. Anyway, once you've made up your icing, fill an icing bag or icing tool with your icing and use a medium-sized star tip. I just love the effect of a star tip. It's amazing what it can do with cake; almost as amazing as what I can do with cake. *winks at Chubbs* Slowly and carefully, hold your nozzle steady and in a clockwise motion, slowly squeeze your icing out onto the top of the cupcake, swirling gently inward to the centre. 



After icing the tops of your cupcakes, the icing should chill for about 5 minutes, until stiff...much like I am now. Okaaay, that was a bit of an overshare, but after most of the stuff I've said on this blog, it's not unexpected. Alrighty, once your icing is stiff and ready to perform, it's time to add the garnish and no that is not a euphemism for vagina. Carefully, take one of your peanut butter candy skulls and press it into the centre of the icing. The icing will fold down underneath and puff up slightly around the edges of the candies. Much like the sight of Chubber's hips when he wiggles into some skinny jeans. Continue the until you've done this with half of your cupcakes. With the other half, rather than using the peanut butter skulls, use your candy skulls or other Halloween treat toppers to decorate the other half of the cupcakes.

And there you have it! 2 dozen beautifully iced and decorated cupcakes to make your Halloween as delicious as it is fun! 



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