Description
Create charming full moon cupcakes perfect for Halloween or themed parties, featuring moist cupcakes topped with creamy frosting and decorated with fondant circles colored and designed to resemble full moons with spooky designs.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- Your favorite cupcake recipe ingredients (or store-bought cupcakes)
Frosting
- Your favorite frosting recipe ingredients or store-bought frosting
- Confectioners’ sugar (for thickening frosting, optional)
Decorations
- Store-bought white rolled fondant, quantity as needed for covering cupcakes
- Yellow food coloring, a few drops to color fondant
- Black edible writer (edible food marker)
- Disposable decorating bag
- Size “32” or any preferred decorating tip
- Rubber band
- 2-inch circle cookie cutter
- Confectioners’ sugar or wax paper (to prevent sticking while rolling fondant)
Instructions
- Color and Roll Fondant: Take a handful of white rolled fondant and add a few drops of yellow food coloring. Knead thoroughly, adding more drops until you reach the desired shade of yellow. Roll the fondant out like cookie dough to about 1/4-inch thickness, using confectioners’ sugar or wax paper to prevent sticking.
- Cut and Decorate Fondant Circles: Using a 2-inch circle cookie cutter, cut out circles from the rolled fondant—one circle per cupcake. Place these on wax paper and allow them to stiffen for about one hour. Use the black edible writer to draw bat, witch, or other Halloween-themed designs on each fondant circle. For best results, let the decorated fondant circles stiffen overnight.
- Prepare Cupcakes: Bake your favorite cupcakes following your preferred recipe or use store-bought cupcakes. Allow cupcakes to cool completely before decorating.
- Prepare Frosting and Decorating Bag: Prepare frosting using your favorite recipe or use store-bought frosting. If using store-bought frosting, stir in confectioners’ sugar to thicken until it is easy to pipe. Fit a disposable decorating bag with the size 32 or preferred decorating tip and fill it with the frosting. Secure the top of the bag with a rubber band to prevent leakage.
- Decorate Cupcakes: Pipe frosting onto each cooled cupcake using the prepared decorating bag. Then, gently place a decorated fondant moon circle on top of the frosting for a festive finish.
Notes
- Allowing the fondant circles to stiffen overnight helps prevent them from becoming sticky or soft when placed on the cupcakes.
- Adjust the yellow food coloring gradually to achieve a natural moon color without making the fondant too dark.
- If you don’t have an edible black pen, you can use thin black frosting or gel for decorating the fondant.
- Try different spooky designs on the fondant circles such as bats, witches, or pumpkins to customize your cupcakes.
- Keep cupcakes refrigerated if using perishable frosting, but allow to come to room temperature before serving for best texture and flavor.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 28g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 45mg
