Halloween Witch Hat Cupcakes
These adorable witch hat cupcakes look ultra-impressive—but they’re so easy! How to make Halloween witch cupcakes with colorful frosting, a basic metal piping tip, and a hat topper made from Oreo cookies and chocolate kisses.
Ingredients
Cupcakes Ingredients
- 24 cupcakes of choice (I prepared 1 box chocolate cake mix)
- 12 Oreo sandwich cookies, separated
- 1 tub orange frosting*
- 1 tub purple or green frosting* (or 1 of each!)
- black & orange sprinkles (optional)
- 24 chocolate kisses
- *I used premade tubs of orange, purple, and green frosting for ease and convenience. You can also create your own colors at home using white frosting + food coloring.
Decorating Equipment
- 24 cupcake liners
- 2-3 decorating bags
- open star metal piping tip #1m
- open star metal piping tip #199 (optional)
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Bake cupcakes in cupcake liners, according to package directions. (Or bake homemade cupcakes of choice.) Allow to cool completely.
Hat Toppers
- Separate Oreo cookies from the crème, so you’ve got 24 individual cookies.
- Add orange frosting into a decorating bag with a metal piping tip. (I used a Wilton open star tip #199. The metal tip is optional here, but I prefer to use it.)
- Pipe a dollop of orange frosting onto the top of an Oreo cookie. Add sprinkles if desired, then press a chocolate kiss on top.
- Repeat to create 24 witch’s hat toppers.
Frosting & Assembly
- Add purple or green frosting into a decorating bag with a metal piping tip. (I used a Wilton open star tip #1m.) Or, use 2 separated ecorating bags if you want to use 2 different colors on your cupcakes.
- Pipe frosting onto cupcake in a spiral pattern, starting from the outside and circling inward to create a dollop.
- Place a prepared Oreo cookie hat topper on top of the frosting, pressing gently so it sticks.
- Repeat to complete remaining witch hat cupcakes.