Description
Get ready to enchant your guests with Halloween Slime Cupcakes! These delightful treats feature a moist vanilla cupcake base with a spooky black hue, filled with gooey lime custard that delivers a fun ‘slime’ effect. Topped with vibrant green buttercream and whimsical candy eyes, these cupcakes are perfect for Halloween parties or festive gatherings. Not only do they look fantastic, but their unique flavor combination of vanilla and lime will leave everyone wanting more. Easy to make and highly customizable, these cupcakes are sure to be a hit with both kids and adults alike!
Ingredients
Scale
- 175 g Baking spread (or butter)
- 175 g Caster sugar
- 3 Eggs (large)
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 175 g Self raising flour
- 25 g Black food colouring
- 200 g Butter
- 400 g Icing sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1–2 tbsp Milk
- Green food colouring
- Yellow food colouring
- 150 g Tinned custard
- Green food colouring
- Candy eyes
- Green sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 140C Fan/325F/Gas Mark 3 and line a cupcake tin with black cases.
- In a bowl, mix softened baking spread and caster sugar until fluffy. Incorporate eggs and vanilla extract.
- Gradually fold in self-raising flour, then add black food coloring until evenly mixed.
- Divide batter into cupcake cases and bake for 25-30 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Cool completely.
- Core each cupcake, fill with colored tinned custard, and prepare green buttercream by mixing softened butter, icing sugar, milk, and food colorings.
- Pipe or spread the buttercream on top of the cupcakes; decorate with candy eyes.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 264
- Sugar: 27g
- Sodium: 119mg
- Fat: 13g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 37g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 57mg