Description
Festive Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes decorated with green buttercream grass and topped with candy pumpkins, perfect for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or any autumn celebration.
Ingredients
- 12 baked chocolate cupcakes (using your favorite recipe)
- 2 cups vanilla buttercream
- Americolor Soft Gel Paste in Leaf Green (for coloring buttercream)
- 24 Halloween Mellowcreme Pumpkins (candy pumpkins)
- Disposable pastry bags
- Decorating tip #233 (grass tip)
- Decorating tip #3 (small round tip for stems and vines)
Instructions
- Tint the vanilla buttercream with Leaf Green gel paste until a vibrant green color is achieved.
- Fill a piping bag fitted with decorating tip #233 and pipe tufts of grass over each cupcake by holding the bag at a 90-degree angle, squeezing, and pulling up.
- Place two candy pumpkins on top of each frosted cupcake, securing with extra buttercream if needed.
- Fill another piping bag with green buttercream and fit with decorating tip #3. Pipe curly stems and vines on top of and around the pumpkins for added detail.
- Repeat with all cupcakes until decorated and festive.
Notes
- You can swap chocolate cupcakes for spiced pumpkin cupcakes for extra fall flavor.
- Different candy toppings (candy corn, gummy worms) can make them more Halloween-themed.
- Store at room temperature up to 2 days, or refrigerate up to 5 days. Bring to room temperature before serving.
- Undecorated cupcakes can be frozen, but decorated ones do not freeze well.
- Decorating can be simplified with a star tip or even just spreading the frosting if you don’t have the grass tip.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking and decorating
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 36g
- Sodium: 210mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 45g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 40mg
