Happy Halloween! Need a last minute getup for your little cupcake? Check out this offering from Old Navy. It’s probably on sale this morning!

If you are looking for a last minute Halloween cupcake costume be sure to check out Kohl’s.  They have a women’s Hostess Cupcake Costume on sale for $29.69!  Kohl’s also has two dog costumes! The cupcake girl costume shown  below on the left is modeled after Katy Perry and costs $29.69.  The second dog costume is a more basic cupcake costume and it costs $25.19.

Here are my favorite Halloween cupcake printable toppers that I have found this year.  The toppers shown above are from Celebrations at Home who made the festive polkadot toppers. Ekaterina Trukhan created cute illustrated toppers.  Giggles & Grace Designs created the more grown up looking toppers. Love Party Printables designed these “Boo” costume cupcake toppers. The always creative Sweetopia came up with the Happy Howl-oween dog cupcake toppers.

Check out these eerily beautiful black velvet rose cupcakes from Diary of a Mad Hausfrau. Visit her blog to also see the severed tongue truffles. ewww…

I love these skeleton cupcakes from MyRecipes.com.  The little hat wearing skeletons made from frosting, m&m’s, mini jelly beans, mini cupcakes, and chocolate wafers! These look like the perfect Halloween cupcake recipe to make with little kids!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, I especially love seeing all the different, creative cupcakes people come up with.  My favorite Halloween cupcakes this year are the Kawaii Halloween cupcake toppers by Next to Nicx.  Instead of going with the traditional scary halloween monsters and ghoul, she chose to create really adorable little monsters, bats, and ghosts! The Next to Nicx website features detailed picture instructions and the downloadable template.

Looking for a cute centerpiece for a fall birthday?  How about making these cupcakes from pumpkins!  I saw the idea at the North Carolina State Fair and love how easy and fun it is! Best of all there is no mess since you are not carving the pumpkins.

Do you send out Halloween cards? I send Halloween cards to a few of my friends and family members that live far away.  I already have my cards picked out for this year but I’m bookmarking this set of 12 Halloween cupcake cards for next year.  The set from Milk Box Prints costs $22.00 and features two designs, a witch and a spider cupcake.

So, what are you doing with your nails this Halloween? Here’s one way to get in the spirit! This nail art is courtesy of the cleverly-named Inspirationail.

What a terrific use of pretzels! These skeletons aren’t so scary! These Halloween delights are courtesy of Buttercream Baroness.

We’re getting closer to one of cupcakes’ favorite holidays–creepy crawly time! So today, courtesy of Little Birdie Secrets, we bring you icky looking but likely delicious spider web cupcakes! The pictured spider isn’t edible, but you could probably find some spider candies somewhere if you really needed an edible spider to make your Halloween party complete!

Everywhere I go I am seeing pumpkins, scarecrows and candy corn so it must be time to get ready for Halloween! Over the years we have posted quite a few cupcake costumes for adults, kids and baby and finally we have one to post for your puppy too! Kohl’s has this sweet costume for $25.   Or your pup can sport this Katy Perry look-alike costume for $26.  A bit much for me but so hilarious!  And when you dress up Fido as a cupcake, make sure to send us a photo!

While flipping through Food Network Magazine I saw a fun Target ad for some of their Halloween products, shown in the ad was Target’s two tiered, steel wire Halloween spider web cupcake stand.  For only $19.99 this unique cupcake stand is a fun and festive display piece.  I think I might be buying one of these for myself I like it so much!

Halloweencostumes.com offers a huge selection of costumes, including several cupcake costumes.  There are cupcake costumes for babies, kids, and adults, ranging in price from $21.99 to 51.99.  ATC was sent the Women’s Cupcake Costume to review.  The costume costs $42.99, and there’s a matching toddlers cupcake costume if you were looking to match your child!

The costume arrived very quickly after it had been shipped.  My first recommendation to anyone who buys this costume is to follow the first instruction as soon as you get it.  That means taking the costume out of the bag and hanging it up!  The costume definitely needs to be hung up so it can take shape and to get the wrinkles out.  I loved the bright pink tulle top and the fun turquoise bottom.  I also liked the multicolored sparkling sprinkles although from up close they do look like Band-Aids.  I have to admit I thought the costume, which is a size 4-10 was short.  I am 5’5” and the bottom of the costume was more than halfway up my thigh.  I think if I were to wear this costume outside my house I would buy the suggested matching fishnet tights or the knee-high legwarmers. Read the rest of this entry »

St. Patrick’s Day is only two days away!  Are you baking cupcakes to make someone in your life’s day extra lucky?  Anna and Blue Paperie’s website  offers the cute, free printable download for cupcake toppers shown above.  There are four topper designs on one sheet, these include a shamrock, the word “”lucky,” or the phrases “kiss me” and “Happy St. Patrick’s Day.”

For fans of something with more color, Modern Moments also has a free printable download for cupcake toppers, shown to the right.  The Modern Moments rainbow toppers read “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day,” “Lucky You,” “Kiss Me,” and “Luck of the Irish”

I’m not sure who the mysterious “Pippindipity” is, but here are some delightful treats from her Flickr stream! I recommend a visit, as there’s more where these came from!

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I just found these Halloween delights at a local bakery, The Bankery, in Skowhegan, Maine. The decorations are all done by hand, and all in frosting. Talk about talented! My son was thrilled, because I couldn’t bring myself to eat the spider, so he got the whole thing! The cat is my favorite, paws down! Happy Halloween!

Last year we shared with you an idea from the authors of Hello Cupcake/Whats New Cupcake on how to create a mummy out of cupcakes.  For an alternative mummy cupcake Annie from With Sprinkles on Top offers the idea of making the cupcake faces look like mummies! She bought the eye from a local candy store but I’m sure white candy with a drop of chocolate will have the same effect!

Apparently, Halloween cupcakes don’t have to gross you out. This chocolate orange marbled cupcake from Monistical is gorgeous! Visit their website for detailed instructions on how to make your own marbled masterpiece!

If you didn’t see something you liked in earlier this week’s Halloween themed cupcake toppers maybe one of these other fun, free printable toppers will be more your style.  I Heart Naptime’s toppers feature simple patterns and the phrase “trick or treat.”  Paper Squid’s freebies also include cake pop decorations.

Image via Paper Crave

Looking for some free printable cupcake toppers?  We Love to Illustrate has put together a collection of printable Halloween themed cupcake toppers, free for personal use!  I came across this blog post via Paper Crave’s Free Printable Halloween Goodies, 2011 Edition post.  There are a total of seven designs to choose from, my favorites are by Bee and Tamara Henderson!

A big thanks to Zombie Wagon for letting us share these eerily awesome cupcake photos with our ATC readers! Yummy and deadly!

George Bernard Shaw wrote, “If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, then you’d best teach it to dance.”

These beauties are from Love From the Oven. BONE Appétit!

Over the past few years we here at ATC have shared several candy corn cupcake ideas.  We started with the idea of dying the cupcake batter yellow and orange and layering them to look like a candy corn.  The next year we showed you that you could take any cupcake and frost it to look like a candy corn by piping white, yellow, and orange frosting on top. This year we take it one step further, dark chocolate cupcakes with a candy corn inside!  The Sugar Turntable came up with the fun and festive idea, as she says in her description, the dark chocolate cupcake combined with the candy corn colors just screams fall and Halloween!

The directions for how to make these awesome cupcakes are included in her original post but while at the website check out her other Halloween tutorials.  The tutorials include  instructions for the fun boneyard cupcakes shown to the right, would you believe marshmallows and pretzels are used to make them?