- Prep Time: 30m
- Cook Time: 18m
- Yield: 12 Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 & 3/4 cups flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup boiling water
FOR THE FROSTING:
- 1 stick of butter, melted
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 6 cups powdered sugar (may need more to thicken depending on preference)
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
For Poison Apples
- 9 -12 of the baked cupcakes
- 12 ounces Red Candy Melts
- 6 ounces Green Candy Melts
- Brown Bar Type Sprinkles
- 1 tablespoon frosting
Also Need:
- Halloween Sprinkles
- 3/4 cup Caramel Dip
- Large Star Piping Tip
- Small #2 Piping Tip
- Piping Bags
- Foil or Parchment Paper
Instructions
Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- In the bowl of a mixer, mix together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add in the eggs and mix.
- Add in the milk, oil and vanilla; mix until everything is combined. Mix for 2-3 minutes.
- Mix in the boiling water. (Batter will be very VERY thin!)
- Line a muffin/cupcake tin with liners.
- Fill each cupcake liner with a little less than 1/4 cup of batter. (About 2/3s of the way full)
- Bake for 18 minutes or until done. Cool Completely.
Frosting:
- Pour melted butter into the bowl of a mixer.
- Mix in the cocoa.
- Add in 3 cups of powered sugar. Mix well.
- Add in 1/3 cup of milk and mix well.
- Add in the rest of the powered sugar and mix well.
- Add in the rest of the milk and mix well. Stir in vanilla.
- To make the frosting thicker add more powdered sugar.
- To make the frosting thinner add more milk.
How to make the mini Poison Apples:
- Take some of the cooled cupcakes and crumble them into a bowl. Mix in about a tablespoon of frosting. Mix well.
- You're looking for the constancy of play dough, add a little more frosting if needed but don't make it too soggy.
- Roll tablespoon size balls of dough into ball/apple shapes. Pop them into the freezer for about 20 minutes.
- Once chilled, melt red candy melts according to package directions. Dip each cake ball into the melted candy melts, tap off excess and set on a piece of foil or parchment paper to harden.
- It doesn't matter if they're smooth, you're going to cover most of it with green "poison".
- I can normally cover about 12 apples with 12 ounces of red candy melts.
- Adding The Poison to the Poison Apples:
- Now, it's time to add the green poison drip to the apples.
- Melt the green candy melts according to the package directions. I normally only do half of the bag at a time with the green because you don\'t want it all to harden in the piping bag while you\'re working on them.
- Fill a piping bag, fitted with a small #2 tip, with the green candy melts. Piping 2 circles and a upside down tear drop onto the front of the \"apple\". This will be the eyes and nose. .
- Next, pipe some drips around the apple and fill in the top half of the apple with the green candy melts.
- Add some green candy melts to a brown sprinkle and stick it on top for the stem.
- Let them sit for about 10 minutes or so until the candy melts harden.
Assemble Cupcakes:
- Starting off with the chocolate cupcakes, use a small knife and carefully cut out a plug of cake from the center of the cupcake.
- Now spoon in some caramel dip!
- Then pop the plug of cupcake back and close up that caramel center. Next, spread on a thin layer of frosting.
- Pour the Halloween sprinkles into a bowl and dip the cupcake into the sprinkles.
- Filling a piping bag, fitted with a large star tip, with the chocolate frosting and pipe a swirl onto the center of the cupcake. Add a Poison Apple to each cupcake.
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