Recipes and Cooking Ghostly Cupcakes Ready for a break from the candy? Try one of our favorite Halloween cupcake ideas! These ghost cupcakes are hiding a donut hole under the white fondant "blanket." By BHG Test Kitchen BHG Test Kitchen The Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen has been in continuous operation for nearly 100 years, developing and testing practical, reliable recipes that readers can enjoy at home. The Test Kitchen team includes culinary specialists, food stylists, registered and licensed nutritionists, and other experts with Bachelor of Science degrees in food science, food and nutrition, or culinary arts. Together, the team tests more than 2,500 recipes, produces more than 2,500 food images, and creates more than 1,000 food videos each year in the state-of-the-art test kitchen. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Updated on July 5, 2017 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Start To Finish Time: 45 mins Servings: 12 Jump to Nutrition Facts Ingredients 12 2.5 inch White Chocolate Cupcakes or other 2-1/2-inch white cupcakes in paper bake cups 1 16 ounce can vanilla frosting 12 1.75 inch White Chocolate Cupcakes or other white cupcakes 12 small glazed or plain doughnut holes 16 ounce purchased white rolled fondant* Black candy-coated sunflower kernels or 1 tube black icing White Chocolate Cupcakes 4 ounce cream cheese, softened 1 package 2-layer-size white cake mix 1 cup milk ½ cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 1 cup finely chopped white baking chocolate with cocoa butter or miniature white baking pieces Directions Set the 2-1/2-inch White Chocolate Cupcakes on a flat surface; generously pipe some of the frosting on each cupcake. If necessary, remove paper bake cups from the 1-3/4-inch White Chocolate Cupcakes. Place them, upside down, on the tops of the large cupcakes. Generously pipe some frosting on top of each small cupcake. Top each with a doughnut hole. If desired, pipe a little frosting on the tops of the doughnut holes. If necessary, use frosting to secure any unstable parts of stacks. Shape purchased fondant into 1-1/2-inch-diameter balls. (Work with one ball of fondant at a time and keep remaining fondant covered until needed.) On parchment paper, roll one ball into a 6-inch-diameter circle. Drape fondant circle loosely over a cupcake stack, pressing or creasing the fondant in places to make the stack look more ghostly. Repeat to make 12 ghostly cupcakes. For faces, use frosting to attach sunflower kernels to the fondant for eyes and mouths or use black icing to pipe eyes and mouths. Makes 12 (2-1/2 inch) cupcakes. White Chocolate Cupcakes Preheat oven to 350°F. Line sixteen 2 1/2-inch and twelve 1 3/4-inch muffin cups with white paper bake cups.* In a large mixing bowl beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add cake mix, milk, oil, and eggs. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Stir in white chocolate. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each about three-fourths full. Bake about 20 minutes for 2 1/2-inch cupcakes, about 14 minutes for 1 3/4-inch cupcakes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in muffin cups on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove cupcakes from muffin cups. Cool completely on wire racks. Kritsada Panichgul *Test Kitchen Tip: Rolled fondant icing can be found in the cake decorating department of many hobby and crafts stores. **Test Kitchen Tip: If you prefer to make only one size cupcakes for another use, use twenty-two 2-1/2-inch or forty-eight 1-3/4-inch muffin cups. If you don't have enough muffin cups or if all of the cupcakes do not fit into the oven at one time, store the remaining batter in the refrigerator while the first batch bakes. Rate it Print Nutrition Facts (per serving) 748 Calories 30g Fat 113g Carbs 5g Protein Show Full Nutrition Label Hide Full Nutrition Label Nutrition Facts Servings Per Recipe 12 Calories 748 % Daily Value * Total Fat 30g 38% Saturated Fat 11g 55% Cholesterol 72mg 24% Sodium 461mg 20% Total Carbohydrate 113g 41% Total Sugars 92g Protein 5g Calcium 90.9mg 7% Iron 1.1mg 6% Potassium 95mg 2% Fatty acids, total trans 1g Folate, total 28.2mcg Vitamin B-12 0.2mcg Vitamin B-6 0mg *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.