Description
These Werewolf Cupcakes combine rich chocolate cupcakes with creatively decorated Reese’s Cup werewolves made from candy melts and mini candies. Perfect for Halloween or themed parties, these spooky treats feature furry candy-coated werewolves with candy bone accents and malted milk ball paws, all topped with a crescent moon candy decoration.
Ingredients
Scale
Werewolf Decorations
- 4 ounces light cocoa candy melts, melted
- 6 full size Reese’s Cups
- 6 Reese’s Cup Minis
- 6 black M&M’s
- 12 yellow candy eyes
- 12 light cocoa candy melt wafers
- 4 ounces white candy melts, melted
Decorating the Cupcakes
- 6 chocolate cupcakes
- 1 ½ cups thick chocolate frosting
- 12 Whoppers (small malted milk balls)
- 6 candy bones (bone sprinkles)
Instructions
- Prepare Reese’s Cup Werewolves: Spread melted light cocoa candy melts evenly over each full size Reese’s Cup. Using a food-use-only paintbrush, press the brush into the wet candy melts and quickly pull up to create furry spikes texture across the candy surface.
- Add the Snout and Details: Attach a mini Reese’s Cup as the snout on each full size Reese’s Cup, brushing candy melts all around it to make it furry as well. Adhere a black candy nose and yellow candy eyes onto each snout using additional candy melts as glue. Freeze the completed werewolves in the freezer for 1 minute to set.
- Attach the Ears: Cut two triangle-shaped ears from the light cocoa candy melt wafers and attach them to the top of each Reese’s Cup werewolf. Use more melted candy melts and the paintbrush technique to make the ears furry, consistent with the werewolf’s texture.
- Create Fangs: Using white candy melts, either pipe on small fang shapes or attach four small white heart sprinkles per werewolf to serve as fangs, securing them with more light cocoa candy melts.
- Make Candy Moons: Pipe six crescent moon shapes from white candy melts onto a piece of parchment paper, attaching a pick to each. Freeze these candy moons for 3-5 minutes until hardened.
- Decorate the Cupcakes: Pipe a generous swirl of thick chocolate frosting onto each chocolate cupcake. Place one Reese’s Cup werewolf on top of each frosted cupcake.
- Assemble Final Touches: Insert one candy moon pick behind the werewolf into the frosting on each cupcake for a moonlit effect. Position two Whoppers on either side of the werewolf to resemble its paws, and press a candy bone between the Whoppers to complete the werewolf’s look.
Notes
- Store the decorated cupcakes at room temperature for up to 3 days to maintain freshness and candy texture.
- Use a food-safe paintbrush for texturing the candy melts to create the furry werewolf effect.
- Freezing the candy elements briefly helps to set and stabilize the decorations prior to assembling on cupcakes.
- Ensure candy melts are fully melted and smooth for easy application and adhesion of decorations.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 30g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
