Mini Monster Cakes for Halloween

Hi guys!

Are you ready for Halloween? It’s only one week away now…

I love Halloween baking because you can go a little crazy and turn everything into monsters and vampires etc. I must say, not the bravest one around. At all. Put me in a house in the woods with windows overlooking the dark nothingness and you’ll find me piss my pants… So no, I don’t watch horror movies on Halloween. I will be watching Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie tho

What else I love about Halloween? These Mini Monsters for instance! In normal circumstances, I’d be taking these to work to share with my coworkers. Unfortunately that’s not happening this year. Should I send them a picture of them? Or would that just be cruel… You tell me

These Mini Monsters are made of 2 cupcakes stacked together and decorated with buttercream and eyes. Lots of them. Because, why not.

I must say, these Mini Monsters aren’t that easy… I would totally get it if you prefer to make a bigger cake and turn that into a monster. These things are so tiny they don’t have enough weight to stand tall. So you can’t just cover them with buttercream like a regular cake. Yes, your hands will become smootchie. Oh well… :p

What we need for 9 mini monsters

Cupcakes

250 g soft, unsalted butter
250 g caster sugar
4 eggs
250 g self-raising flour
cupcake wrappers
cupcake baking tin
toothpicks

Buttercream

250 g soft, unsalted butter
500 g powder sugar
3 tablespoons of milk
food coloring (pick any colors you like your monsters to be)
sprinkles
eyeballs
piping bags
various piping tips

How to

Mini Monster body parts

Preheat the oven at 180°C
Mix together butter and sugar
Add the eggs and mix until combines
Add the flour and give it a quick mix to make sure everything is well combined
Line the baking tray with cupcake wrappers
Use an ice cream scoop to fill the wrappers
Bake for about 23 minutes
Done? Gently push the top of the Cupcakes. If they bounce back, they’re done
Let them cool completely
Make pairs because you’ll need 2 cupcakes per monster

Buttercream

Beat the butter with half of the powder sugar
Add the other half of the powder sugar
Add 3 tablespoons of milk and mix until fully combined
Divide into separate bowls (depending on how many different colors you want to make)
Add a little food coloring per bowl and mix well
Pick your piping tips and prepare your piping bags to start assembling!

Mini Monsters

Unwrap the cupcakes and stack 2 by 2 on top of each other. Use a toothpick to secure them. Careful tho: you don’t want your guests to swallow these… So either pick large tootchpicks you can remove after making the monsters or warn them
Cover the little stack with buttercream as if it were a cake
Pipe some furr on the monsters
Decorate with eyes and accessories such as sprinkles, bones, scars, … Go crazy!