Vegan Halloween Cupcakes – Chocolate Katie

Posted on October 22, 2025

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These Frosted Darkish Chocolate Vegan Halloween Cupcakes are so cute, scrumptious and spooky!

Adorable Spooky Vegan Halloween Cupcakes

Simple Vegan Halloween Cupcakes to Make at Dwelling

Need to be the most well-liked visitor at your upcoming Halloween get together?

Carry a batch of egg-free, dairy-free cupcakes disguised as monsters, pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, and chocolate chip cookie bats.

Cupcakes are simple to make and excellent for the entire household to take pleasure in. They make a spooky scrumptious addition to any Halloween snack or dessert desk.

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Vegan Cupcakes – I’ve included the selfmade recipe I exploit under. If it is advisable save time, it’s also possible to go for store-bought vegan chocolate cake combine.

Or make any of your favourite dairy-free cupcake recipes within the taste of your selection. Nobody stated they needed to be chocolate. Attempt vanilla, pumpkin, and even chai cake.

Frosted—— Once more, you should purchase vegan buttercream frosting or make your individual. Surprisingly, many industrial manufacturers of frosting are surprisingly plant-based, together with some choices from Pillsbury and Betty Crocker.

Need selfmade vegan frosting that’s excellent for piping? I used the vegan cream cheese frosting recipe written on this put up to make my vegan carrot cake.

For a vegan chocolate frosting, I really like this Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting .

Icing ideas and piping baggage – These must be available and pretty low-cost at most grocery or craft shops. Nonetheless, they don’t seem to be required. If you happen to simply have a Ziploc bag readily available, you’ll be able to minimize a gap and pipe the frosting by means of the Ziploc bag.

Artistic ornament—— Googly eyes, frosting, rainbow sprinkles, edible glitter, vegan sweet corn (if you will discover it)…have enjoyable selecting all of the festive Halloween themed decorations and satisfying your coronary heart’s wishes.

How you can Make Chocolate Cupcakes

Start by grease the cupcake pans or line the cupcake pans with cupcake liners. Put aside.
Preheat oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit or 177 levels Celsius.
Place flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt and baking soda in a big mixing bowl. Combine properly with a whisk or spoon.
Pour within the water, pumpkin puree, oil, vinegar and pure vanilla extract. Stir till mixed.
Utilizing a spoon or giant cookie scoop, portion batter into ready pans. It ought to fill 9 customary dimension cupcake tins, about 2/3 full.
Bake on the middle rack of the preheated oven for twenty minutes, or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out largely clear.
Fastidiously take away from warmth and permit to chill earlier than adorning. This step ensures that the frosting doesn’t soften when it comes into contact with the new cupcakes.
If being transported in a automotive or served at a celebration, vegan Halloween cupcakes could sit out at room temperature for just a few hours. To increase storage time, cowl leftovers within the fridge and eat inside 4 to 5 days.
Alternatively, you’ll be able to freeze the unfrosted cupcakes in an hermetic container for as much as two months. Thaw earlier than including frosting or different edible Halloween decorations.

halloween costume caveman — This 12 months’s Halloween costumes: a prehistoric cavewoman and Magnus’ furry sidekick. Magnus wins the unofficial award for Finest Dressed on the Masquerade,

Vegan Halloween Cupcake Concepts

Frankenstein’s Monster: Stir the spirulina into the vanilla frosting (begin small) till you are pleased with the inexperienced tint. Pipe a dollop of frosting onto the cooled cupcakes. Then enhance with chocolate chips, edible eyes, and mini pretzel sticks.

pumpkin: Use pure meals coloring or turmeric and freeze-dried strawberry powder to offer the icing an orange hue. Add pretzel stems, inexperienced vines (utilizing leftover inexperienced frosting from Monster Cupcakes), and sprinkle on high.

bat: Swirl the chocolate frosting onto the vegan cupcakes, then add a mini Oreo cookie for the top and a regular-sized cookie minimize in half for the wings. Use icing pens or edible eye sweet to create eyes.

Scary spider net: This expertise is barely extra superior. If you happen to’re blissful together with your frosting marker, you’ll be able to draw black spider webs over the white frosting. Make sweet spiders with selfmade chocolate truffles and licorice legs.

ghost: Unfold frosting on cupcakes and place an enormous vegan marshmallow on high of the frosting. Use frosting so as to add eyes and non-obligatory mouth.

Tailored from my Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes and Wholesome Chocolate Cupcakes.

1 cup flour (120 g) (Spelled, White or All-Function Wheat Flour) (Low Carb: Keto Chocolate Cupcakes)
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (20g)
2 spoon Dutch cocoa powder or further unsweetened cocoa powder (10g)
3/4 cup sugar or xylitol (150g)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup water (120g)
1/2 cup pumpkin puree (120g)
1/4 cup Oil (48g) (water might be added for defatting)
2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (10g)
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar (5g)
Vegan Halloween Decorations Alternative (see concepts above)

1. Preheat oven to 350° F (177° C).
2. Grease or line cupcake tins and put aside.
3. Place all dry substances into a big mixing bowl and blend properly.
4. Add moist substances to kind cupcake batter. Stir till mixed.
5. Divide into 9 cupcake tins, filling every tin about 2/3 full.
6. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 20 minutes, or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cupcake comes out largely clear.
7. Cool earlier than frosting. See above for detailed directions on how one can remodel cupcakes into completely different Halloween characters.