My Adventures in Pinterest: Halloween Cupcakes

I needed to bake some cupcakes for our Fall Festival at church. Because I am super mom (and I use that term loosely), I wanted them to be semi-homemade and very cute. There are thousands of pins for Halloween themed goodies on Pinterest. I lack in the baking department so I needed something even a "caveman" could do. Mostly because I am the most impatient person EVER! Most of my "creations" turn out horrific because I can't wait for the cake to cool so that I can frost it. So here is my inspiration for my cupcakes.

Now my cupcakes don't look at all like these cupcakes, because I took this idea and ran with it. Isn't that what Pinterest is all about...to inspire you to create. If they don't have a motto, I just gave them one. "Pinterest... a place for inspiration and creativity."

Ingredients:

1 box Devil's food cake mix

2 jars of white frosting

Food coloring (yellow and red)

Gummy worms

Chocolate cookies

*Makes 24 cupcakes*

Step 1: Bake cupcakes according to package directions

* This is important - you MUST let them cool Miss Antsy Pants*

These are the ingredients I used to decorate the cupcakes.

Step 2: Pour the frosting into a bowl and add the food coloring

Directions for making orange came on the food coloring pack that I bought; however I had to add more and more to get the shade of orange I wanted.

Step 3: Mix the frosting and the food coloring well. I used a hand-mixer, but you can go old-school and use a wooden spoon or spatula. I heard that it makes for an awesome arm work-out. However, I wouldn't know, because I AM LAZY.

Step 4: Put a gallon plastic bag into a tall cup and fill with frosting.

Step 5: Push all the frosting to one corner, snip the end with scissors and Ta-Da.. You have a homemade piping bag.

Step 6: Frost the cupcakes. I started in the middle and swirled around to the edges. Disclaimer: I have no "Baking School" education so I just did the best I could. Don't stress over perfection. You are about to cover it up anyway.

Step 7: Crush up the chocolate cookies. Now in my head, I wanted them to be more crumbly, and had I not used my last plastic bag for the frosting, I would have put them in the bag and used a rolling pin to crush them. Well people, I am fixing to you give you a very valuable life lesson. ADJUST. I used the tip of my rolling pin to crush the cookies in a pasta bowl.