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Home » Recipes » Desserts » Halloween Frankenstein Cupcake Cake #HalloweenTreatsWeek

October 7, 2019 / Updated September 14, 2020 / By Jade

Halloween Frankenstein Cupcake Cake #HalloweenTreatsWeek

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This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

Impress the kids and whip up this super easy Halloween cupcake pull-apart cake shaped to look like Frankenstein’s monster! It is such a fun idea for a holiday party or just for a fun family activity. 

A Frankenstein cupcake cake on a cookie sheet

Last year when I was making the Harry Potter themed cupcakes I started dreaming of other ideas for cupcakes and cakes I could make.  I envisioned simple Halloween cakes and cupcakes you could make to sell at a school harvest carnival or for a church cake walk.  This week I finally get to share some of those ideas with you!

This Frankenstein cupcake cake was so incredibly easy to put together that it would be so simple to make for a fun family activity. 

We enjoyed making this cake and then ding dong ditching it to a family friend (or boo-ing them if you would like)!  If the family has younger children you could add my Five Little Jack O Lantern’s Printables as well.

Ingredients you need to make this Frankenstein cake:

  • Pre-baked cupcakes, flavor your choice
  • black or chocolate frosting
  • green frosting
  • orange Twizzlers
  • Wilton large candy eyes
  • Oreo cookie
  • Brach’s candy corn

Substitutions

The orange Twizzlers were leftover from the Harry Potter spider cupcakes but you could easily substitute orange frosting or the classic red Twizzlers instead so those would be easier to find.

I found the Brach’s green candy corns at my local JoAnn’s but again you could swap those out for the traditional orange ones.

How To Make this Halloween cupcake cake:

circles showing how to arrange cupcakes for the cake base

  1. First, arrange 9 cupcakes into a 3 by 3 grid for Frankenstein’s face and then place 2 cupcakes on the bottom for his neck.
  2. Then, cover the entire cake with green frosting.
  3. Begin decorating the cake by adding frosting hair, candy eyes, Twizzler eyebrows, the Oreo nose, candy corn teeth, and additional frosting stitches and scars.

Labeled picture detailing the different features of the cake

Tips and Tricks

  • Squeeze the cupcakes together as best as you can and continue to push them together when frosting.  They will tend to spread out as you add the frosting so give them a little push back to get them back where you would like them.
  • If you would like you could use black sprinkles for the hair instead of frosting.  Then the frosting and the stitches would be more distinct.  
  • Note: the candy will quickly get soggy on the cake so it is best eaten on the first day.  If you do keep it till the next day, remove the candy before eating.

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A Frankenstein cupcake cake on a cookie sheet

Halloween Frankenstein Cupcake Cake

Impress the kids and whip up this super easy Halloween cupcake pull-apart cake shaped to look like Frankenstein's monster! It is such a fun idea for a holiday party or just for a fun family activity.
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Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 11 servings
Calories: 367kcal
Author: Jade Jones

Ingredients

  • 11 Pre-baked cupcakes flavor your choice
  • 1/3 cup chocolate frosting or black
  • 2 cups green frosting
  • 2 orange Twizzlers
  • 2 Wilton large candy eyes
  • 1 Oreo cookie
  • 12 Brach's candy corn

Instructions

  • First, arrange 9 cupcakes into a 3 by 3 grid for Frankenstein's face and then place 2 cupcakes on the bottom for his neck.
  • Then, cover the entire cake with green frosting. Squeeze the cupcakes together as best as you can and continue to push them together when frosting.  They will tend to spread out as you add the frosting so give them a little push back to get them back where you would like them.
  • Begin decorating the cake by adding frosting hair, candy eyes, Twizzler eyebrows, the Oreo nose, candy corn teeth, and additional frosting stitches and scars.

Notes

Substitutions
The orange Twizzlers were leftover from the Harry Potter spider cupcakes but you could easily substitute orange frosting or the classic red Twizzlers instead so those would be easier to find.
I found the Brach's green candy corns at my local JoAnn's but again you could swap those out for the traditional orange ones.
If you would like you could use black sprinkles for the hair instead of frosting.  Then the frosting and the stitches would be more distinct.  
Note: the candy will quickly get soggy on the cake so it is best eaten on the first day.  If you do keep it till the next day, remove the candy before eating.

Nutrition

Calories: 367kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 240mg | Potassium: 68mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 48g | Vitamin A: 22IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 57mg | Iron: 1mg
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Check out the amazing #HalloweenTreatsWeek recipes from our bloggers today!

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  • Vegan Halloween Cookies & Cream Fault Line Cake from The Baking Fairy
  • Halloween Corn Chip Dessert Bars from Intelligent Domestications
  • Oogie Boogie Meringue Cupcakes from A Blender Mom
  • Smores Ghost Brownies from Books n’ Cooks

 

Happy Halloween! It’s October which means it’s time for Spooky Season and this year’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event! #HalloweenTreatsWeek is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife & its a creepy and haunting week-long event is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats, recipes and some frightfully fun giveaways.

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ‘tis near Halloween.”

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For the 2nd annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 41 fantastically talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! There are going to be over 160 Halloween themed recipes shared during this year’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek and we can’t wait for you to see them all! Follow the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media and look at the bottom of each post to see all of the Halloween recipes that we’re sharing!

Plus, don’t forget that we have 6 (six) great giveaways for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsors!

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Prize #1 — Dixie Crystals is giving away a “Dinner and Dessert Set” – ONE 6-Quart Cook & Carry Programmable Slow Cooker, a Pyrex mixing bowl set plus some fun Dixie Crystals items like a Dixie Crystal Apron and Cookbook!

 

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Prize #2 — Adam’s Extract is giving away – 1 Gift Pack – including 4oz Adams Best, 1.5 oz Peppermint, 1.5oz Almond, 1 bottle vanilla cinnamon sugar, 1 bottle pumpkin pie spice

 

 

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Prize #3 —Wilton is giving away a Texturra 7-Piece Bakeware Set

 

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Prize #4 — Sweets and Treats Shop is giving away a large baking box of goodies! Sweets and Treats will send one lucky winner a large assortment of sprinkles and lines and other samples of their products!

 

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Prize #5 — Treat Street USA is giving away a set of Holiday Treat Decorations (1 Gummy Assortment, 1 Marshmallow Snowman, 1 Toy Solider and 1 Gingerbread Men)

 

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Prize # 6– Litehouseis giving away the following: 1 Litehouse® Honeycrisp Apple Cider, 1 Litehouse® Old Fashioned Caramel, 1 Litehouse® Pumpkin Spice Caramel, 1 Litehouse® Butterscotch Caramel & 1 Litehouse® Chocolate Dip, Snack Packs

 
 
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Giveaway open to US Residents 18 years or older. All entries will be verified. No PO Boxes Please. Prizes will be sent directly from sponsors to winners, bloggers are not responsible for prizes. This giveaway runs from October 7th – October 13th at 11:59PM EST. Winners will be selected soon afterward and contacted by e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. There are a total of 6 (six) prizes and therefore we will have a total of 6 (six) winners. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law.

 

Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like to Thank our amazing sponsors: Dixie Crystals, Adam’s Extract, Wilton, Sweets and Treats Shop, Treat Street USA and Litehouse! These wonderful sponsors provided the prize packs for our giveaways and also sent samples and products to the #HalloweenTreatsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes.

 

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Comments

  1. Jamie says

    November 4, 2019 at 7:38 am

    5 stars
    This cake is so cute and was something I could make without being a professional baker! My kids absolutely adored it and it tasted good too!

    Reply
  2. Sandra says

    November 2, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    5 stars
    So clever! These were a big hit! Not only are they faster than decorating each individual cupcake, the kids loved taking a piece of Frankenstein’s face to eat. Ya, creepy! 🙂 There was even a cupcake for me since it only takes 11 cupcakes.

    Reply
  3. Jenni says

    October 22, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    5 stars
    This is such a cute idea! I made this for a Halloween party for my kids, and they couldn’t stop talking about how much they liked it!

    Reply
  4. Carlee says

    October 7, 2019 at 4:03 am

    What a cute cupcake cake! I love making them and they are so fun to serve too. I can’t wait to do this Frankenstein.

    Reply

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