Name: Frankenstein Cupcakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2½ cup all purposeflour; 1 cup milk; 1 cup vegetable oil; 3 eggs; 1 Tablespoon baking powder; 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract; 3 Tablespoons cocoa powder; 1 cup butter, softened; 3 cups powdered sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 Tablespoons milk; Green food coloring; Chocolate sprinkles (for decoration); Candy eyes (for decoration); Brown Chocolate M&M’s (for decoration)

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Frankenstein cupcakes are such a cute Halloween treat. Whip up a super easy batch of homemade chocolate cupcakes and green buttercream. Then with just a couple of minutes of no skill required decorating, you can have a fun dessert.

Chocolate cupcake decorated like Frankenstein for Halloween.

Holiday treats are so much fun to make. Halloween treats are especially fun.

There are so many ways you can go with them. From cute Frankenstein pudding cups to gorier recipes like shrimp on the brain cracker spread.

Cute Frankenstein cupcake with chocolate sprinkle hair and candy eyes.

Rich chocolaty ghosts in the graveyard trifle has been a perennial favorite. Last year we added easy mummy rice krispie treats and monster rice krispie treats to the mix.

You can even go the pumpkin patch route and make pumpkin dirt pudding cups. And if you like dirt pudding, you are going to love the fun recipe that is coming soon!

Lots of Frankenstein cupcakes in front of coffee cup.

But with all of those options, these Frankenstein cupcakes are among the cutest. The best part is you don’t need a ton of cake decorating experience or skills to make.

They are so easy and so darn cute. They are sure to be a hit at your holiday festivities.

Making the cupcakes

There is a super simple recipe for homemade chocolate cupcakes below. The batter comes together in just a few minutes.

You don’t need any special equipment outside of a cupcake pan and the ingredients are pantry staples. They are so easy and tasty you might keep making them for all sorts of events throughout the year.

Ingredients for making chocolate cupcakes and buttercream frosting.

Bowl of homemade green buttercream frosting.

However, you can use your favorite cupcakes. Feel free to use a cake mix if you want or make whatever flavor you want.

Just be aware that you may need more frosting if you are making a larger batch of cupcakes.

Frosting your Frankensteins

Start by whipping up some simple homemade American buttercream frosting. It is so simple, there is no reason to not make your own.

Plus homemade frosting tastes so much better. And that way you can make it just the consistency you like.

Freshly baked chocolate cupcakes with piping bag filled with green buttercream, small thing candy eyes and chocolate sprinkles.

Use food coloring gel to make old Franky green and you are ready to go. Make what amounts to a high top on your cupcake.

Add little candy eyeballs and some hair and Frank is ready to go. It doesn’t get any easier than that!

More cute holiday cupcakes

Instead of making individual cupcakes, make a Jack Skellington cupcake pull apart cake. It is fun to pull a cupcake out of the bigger dessert.

For Easter, make cute Easter bunny cupcakes. They are super fun and really easy to do as well!

When Christmas rolls around, make fun Rudolph cupcakes. Or decorate some Santa’s belt cupcakes instead.

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Yield: 12 Cupcakes