Skeleton Cupcakes made with marshmallows, yogurt covered pretzels and straws– so fun and easy! I have a ton of Halloween recipes just waiting for all of you, I hope you’re ready for lots of Frankensteins and spooky treats!
And don’t forget about my Reese’s Frankenstein Cupcakes or Monster Whoopie Pies from Halloweens past!
And don’t forget to enter my KITCHENAID GIVEAWAY that’s going on right now! (It will be at the bottom of that doughnut post!)
I can’t take credit for this fun idea, I’ve seen it a few places online but I’m not sure where it came from originally. I finished up a few baking projects and I wanted to give this one a shot last minute, so I’m sorry I don’t have any process shots for you! The trickiest part is using the melted almond bark (or white Melts) to secure the pretzels to the straw and it wasn’t even that tough. Just put a generous dot of melted chocolate on the straw and then slide the pretzel over and onto it! This also gave me a good excuse to finally buy some edible markers! I got mine at Michael’s and used a 40% coupon so the pack of 4 were only a few bucks and they are so much fun! The next birthday cake I have to make I’m going to write on marshmallows and put them into the frosting 🙂
The cute greaseproof liners and straws came from Sweets & Treats!
I’m going to make some easy pumpkin cupcakes soon too! Can’t wait!
My Frankenstein Cupcakes are so cute!
Wicked Witch Cupcakes using straws and paper!
Skeleton Cupcakes
Ingredients
- CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES:
- 1 box devil's food cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 C. oil
- 1 C. sour cream
- 1/2 C. milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- FROSTING:
- 1/2 C. butter softened
- 8 oz. cream cheese or another 1/2 C. butter
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3-4 C. powdered sugar
- FOR SKELETONS:
- sprinkles
- straws or dowels
- white almond bark
- yogurt covered pretzels
- large marshmallows
- edible marker bought mine at Michael's
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
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2. Sift cake mix into a large bowl to remove any lumps and add the remaining cake ingredients. Stir until smooth.
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3. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Let cool.
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4. Frosting: Beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add vanilla extract and slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.
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5. Roll frosting in sprinkles.
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6. To make skeletons cut your straws or dowels into about 4-inch pieces. Melt a few squares on your almond bark, you'll use this as glue. Put a dollop of melted almond bark onto the straw near the upper half and thread a pretzel onto the straw and into the dollop of melted chocolate. Do this with two other pretzels to make your ribcage. (Holding the straw on each side and letting pretzels hang down, I could rest my ribcage on the table to let set. I hope that makes sense...) Use your edible marker to draw on your skeleton face, then push it onto the top of the straw. Push the whole straw into your cupcake. Break two pretzels to make your arms and wiggle them into the top pretzel! You can secure them with more almond bark if you need to!
It says to bake for 25-20 minutes. Did you mean 15-20 minutes or 20-25 minutes? Thanks to your display of beautiful cupcake liners, I ordered about $100 worth of them from Sweets & Treats. I’m so excited to start using them! They are gorgeous. I have this skeleton pinned to make as one of six varieties for a Halloween party in a couple of weeks along with your Frankie and a few others. They’re going to be so cute!
One other question- can you draw the faces on in advance? Do the markers fade or bleed over time to make last minute application necessary rather than doing it way ahead of time? Thanks for your help!
And yes you can do it ahead of time! Mine didn’t bleed, but you may want to check your markers when you buy them, Just put a line on a marshmallow and see how it does!
Whoops! Thanks for catching that! 15-20, I fixed it! You will LOVE those liners, they’re seriously the best.
Lizzy, these are so cute! What a neat dessert for Halloween parties!
So fun, I Hope these will not scare my kids hhh, it’s so lovely
Yay Lizzy!! Can’t wait for all your Halloween stuff!! Thank you so much for your incredible recipes!!
This idea is toooo cute!
Thanks Patty!
These are so cute! What a fun idea for skeletons. Love these. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!! They were so much fun to make!
So friggin cute! These are definitely on the menu for our Halloween party! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Aw thanks! They were so fun to giveaway to my neighbors and their cute kids!
This is so fun and great for kids!
Oh my Gee! These are the cutest Halloween cupcakes ever. When I first saw them I thought you must have done all this crazy piping voodoo magic. I can’t believe they were constructed with everyday snacks. So genius.
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These cupcakes ideas are so great thanks for sharing them. I’m going to make some of these for my grandkids. It’s going to be a blast.
So cute. I’m gonna try using a Pocky candy stick as the spine to make it 100% edible.
Adorable! Great instructions. The original idea came from Woman’s Day magazine, I believe. They used sucker sticks for their main support. Your orange straws make a cute addition. I’m not big on Halloween, but these are temptingly cute!
I made these for my daughters harvest party at school and they turned out great. The only issue I had was the arms, every time I tried to break/cut the pretzels the whole top part would break so I couldn’t use them. My skeletons ended up armless. Any advice on how to beat cut/break the pretzels so they don’t completely break and are unusable?
So cute and easy. Perfect to serve to little kids in the party. I made a batch of it this Halloween. So yummy recipe. You must try making it.
Sumptuous and cute, thanks for sharing one should try it.
This is so cute cupcake!! I will try making them this Halloween.
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