Graveyard Cupcakes

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Graveyard Cupcakes a try. This recipe serves 12 and costs $1.47 per serving. One portion of this dish contains around 3g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 299 calories. It will be a hit at your Halloween event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 25 minutes. 113 people were impressed by this recipe. This recipe from Leites Culinaria requires Spice Rub, chocolate frosting, oreo cookies, and food coloring. This recipe is typical of American cuisine. With a spoonacular score of 17%, this dish is rather bad. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Graveyard Cupcakes, Graveyard Cupcakes, and Pull-Apart Graveyard Cupcakes.

Servings: 12

Preparation duration: 60 minutes

Cooking duration: 25 minutes

 

Ingredients:

1 batch roll-out cookie dough, any flavor, whether sugar or butter or gingerbread or chocolate or Swedish spice

1 batch chocolate frosting

12 cupcakes

Black food coloring paste

Royal Icing

6 Oreo cookies

Equipment:

muffin liners

muffin tray

wire rack

baking paper

baking sheet

oven

cookie cutter

knife

food processor

ziploc bags

rolling pin

Cooking instruction summary:

1. Prepare your cookie dough recipe, cover, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or according to the recipe instructions.2. Meanwhile, make and bake your cupcake recipe, using a standard 12-hole muffin pan lined with cupcake liners. Let the cupcakes cool on a wire rack.3. When the cookie dough is ready, preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and arrange a rack in the center position. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.4. Lightly dust a clean, dry surface with flour and roll the cookie dough to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Use a cross cookie cutter or place a cross template on the dough and carefully cut around it with a small, sharp knife. You will need 12 crosses, plus a couple extra to allow for breakages. Arrange the dough on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or as the recipe instructs—essentially until they are firm and lightly browned at the edges. Let cool completely on the baking sheets.5. To decorate, thin the royal icing if necessary to create a consistency for writing and tint it black with a smidgen of the food coloring paste. Spoon the icing into a piping bag and pipe an outline around each cross-shaped cookie headstone. Pipe dates or names on the headstones, too, if you like. Let the icing set. 6. Crush the Oreo cookies finely in a food processor or put them in a resealable plastic bag, seal, and crush with a rolling pin. They should be fine enough to resemble dirt.7. Cover the top of each cupcake with the chocolate frosting, scatter the crushed cookies over the top, and insert the bottom of the headstone, er, cross-shaped cookie headstone, into the cupcake. If desired, decorate with mini pumpkins.

 

Step by step:


1. Prepare your cookie dough recipe, cover, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or according to the recipe instructions.

2. Meanwhile, make and bake your cupcake recipe, using a standard 12-hole muffin pan lined with cupcake liners.

3. Let the cupcakes cool on a wire rack.

4. When the cookie dough is ready, preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and arrange a rack in the center position. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

5. Lightly dust a clean, dry surface with flour and roll the cookie dough to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Use a cross cookie cutter or place a cross template on the dough and carefully cut around it with a small, sharp knife. You will need 12 crosses, plus a couple extra to allow for breakages. Arrange the dough on the prepared baking sheet.

6. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or as the recipe instructs—essentially until they are firm and lightly browned at the edges.

7. Let cool completely on the baking sheets.

8. To decorate, thin the royal icing if necessary to create a consistency for writing and tint it black with a smidgen of the food coloring paste. Spoon the icing into a piping bag and pipe an outline around each cross-shaped cookie headstone. Pipe dates or names on the headstones, too, if you like.

9. Let the icing set.

10. Crush the Oreo cookies finely in a food processor or put them in a resealable plastic bag, seal, and crush with a rolling pin. They should be fine enough to resemble dirt.

11. Cover the top of each cupcake with the chocolate frosting, scatter the crushed cookies over the top, and insert the bottom of the headstone, er, cross-shaped cookie headstone, into the cupcake. If desired, decorate with mini pumpkins.


Nutrition Information:

Quickview
299k Calories
2g Protein
11g Total Fat
47g Carbs
1% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
299k
15%

Fat
11g
17%

  Saturated Fat
2g
16%

Carbohydrates
47g
16%

  Sugar
35g
39%

Cholesterol
0.86mg
0%

Sodium
219mg
10%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
2g
5%

Vitamin B2
0.2mg
12%

Selenium
5µg
8%

Vitamin K
7µg
8%

Iron
1mg
7%

Manganese
0.13mg
7%

Vitamin B1
0.09mg
6%

Calcium
58mg
6%

Folate
22µg
6%

Phosphorus
51mg
5%

Vitamin B3
0.85mg
4%

Vitamin E
0.64mg
4%

Copper
0.05mg
2%

Magnesium
8mg
2%

Fiber
0.52g
2%

Potassium
64mg
2%

Zinc
0.21mg
1%

Vitamin B5
0.11mg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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