Looking for more Halloween treats to try this year? Check out my skeleton Halloween cupcakes and this cute spider cake!
Frost the cupcakes. Now, spread a thin layer of frosting over the top of each cupcake. Prepare the donuts. If needed, use the tip of a sharp knife to hollow out the centers of the mini donuts, enough so the pretzel rods will fit into the holes.
Create a “broom” shape. Place a mini donut on top of each cupcake. Stick a pretzel through the donut and into the cupcake to make the broom handle. Use the yellow frosting to cover the outside of the donuts.
Decorate the outside. Using a piping bag fitted with a basket weave tip, pipe additional frosting over the donut to make the broom bristles. Finish and enjoy! Lastly, wrap a piece of Fruit Roll-up around the base of the pretzel. Pipe a small ring of frosting around the top of the Fruit Roll-up, and your witches’ brooms are ready to eat.
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Perfect for parties. These cupcake brooms look so sweet on a Halloween dessert table! They’re great for parties and they don’t take a ton of prep. Make them from scratch, or not. Use your favorite homemade cupcake recipe or a box of cake mix, it’s up to you. The same goes for the buttercream frosting. Easy technique. You don’t need to be a pro cake decorator to master these witchy cupcakes. The technique is very simple, and you don’t even need a piping bag to create the broom design. A Ziploc bag with the corner snipped off works, too!
Cupcakes – Any cupcake recipe you’d like! I have easy recipes for vanilla cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes, and these pumpkin cupcakes are great for Halloween. You can also use a store-bought box of cake mix. Frosting – Choose your favorite store-bought or homemade vanilla frosting. Food Coloring – I recommend gel food coloring, for dying the frosting bright yellow, like the head of a broom. AmeriColor and Wilton make popular gel colors. Pretzels – You’ll need the pretzel rods, for the broom handles. I recommend the plain or salted rods and not any funny flavors. Mini Donuts – Any type you’d like, frosted or unfrosted, like the mini donuts from Hostess or similar. Fruit Roll-Ups – Who remembers these from childhood lunchboxes? You’ll need one roll-up, which you’ll cut into thin strips to wrap around the broom handles. Pull-and-peel Twizzlers are another good option, or you can pipe red or black frosting instead. Piping Bag and Piping Tips – I use the Wilton #48 basket-weave tip to pipe straw-like bristles onto my broom. You can also use a small open-round detailing tip to pipe individual frosting bristles.
Bake the cupcakes. Prepare and bake a batch of cupcakes following the recipe directions, or the instructions on the box if you’re using cake mix. I bake mine in a mini cupcake pan. Make the frosting. Next, whip up a batch of vanilla frosting. Color the frosting yellow using gel food dyes or similar.
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