Vegan Halloween Cupcakes – Chocolate Lined Katie

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October 22, 2025

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These frosted darkish chocolate vegan Halloween cupcakes are so cute and scrumptious, it’s spooky!

Simple vegan Halloween cupcakes at house

Wish to be the preferred visitor at your upcoming Halloween occasion?

Carry a batch of egg free, dairy free cupcakes disguised as monsters, pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, and chocolate cookie bats.

The cupcakes are easy to organize and enjoyable for the entire household. They make a delightfully creepy, tasty addition to any Halloween snack or dessert desk.

Additionally, you will love this Vegan Chocolate Cake

Step-by-step recipe video information

Key substances and gear

Vegan cupcakes – I’ve included the home made recipe I used beneath. If it is advisable to save time, you can even go along with a retailer purchased vegan chocolate cake combine.

Or whip up any favourite dairy free cupcake recipe, within the taste of your selection. Nobody says they must be chocolate. Attempt vanilla, pumpkin, and even Chai Cupcakes.

Frosting – As soon as once more, it’s possible you’ll purchase vegan buttercream frosting or make your individual. Surprisingly, many industrial manufacturers of frosting are unintentionally plant based mostly, together with some choices from Pillsbury and Betty Crocker.

Need home made vegan frosting that works nice for piping? I exploit the vegan cream cheese frosting recipe written out on this publish for Vegan Carrot Cake.

And for vegan chocolate icing, I like this Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting.

Icing ideas and piping baggage – These ought to be available and fairly cheap at most grocery shops or craft shops. Nonetheless, they don’t seem to be required. You possibly can lower a gap and pipe the frosting via a Ziploc bag if it’s all you’ve got available.

Inventive decorations – Googly eyes, icing writers, rainbow sprinkles, edible glitter, vegan sweet corn (if you’ll find it)… have enjoyable selecting all of the festive Halloween themed elaborations and provides your coronary heart wishes.

Methods to make the chocolate cupcakes

Begin by greasing a cupcake pan or lining the pan with cupcake liners. Put aside.
Preheat your oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit or 177 levels Celsius.
Mix the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt, and baking soda in a big mixing bowl. Stir properly with a whisk or spoon.
Pour within the water, pumpkin puree, oil, vinegar, and pure vanilla extract. Stir till simply evenly mixed.
Utilizing a spoon or massive cookie scoop, portion the batter into the ready pan. It ought to fill 9 customary measurement cupcake tins, going about 2/3 of the way in which up.
Bake on the middle rack of the preheated oven for twenty minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out largely clear.
Fastidiously take away from the warmth and let cool earlier than adorning. This step ensures the frosting doesn’t soften upon touching a scorching cupcake.
The vegan Halloween cupcakes could also be overlooked at room temperature for just a few hours if transferring in a automotive or serving at a celebration. For longer storage, preserve leftovers lined within the fridge and devour inside 4 or 5 days.
Alternatively, you may freeze unfrosted cupcakes in an hermetic container for as much as two months. Thaw earlier than including icing or different edible Halloween decorations.

Halloween Costume Cavewoman — This yr’s Halloween costume: Prehistoric cavewoman with Woolly Magnus sidekick. Magnus received the unofficial award for finest dressed on the costume occasion,

Vegan Halloween cupcake concepts

Frankenstein’s Monsters: Stir spirulina into vanilla frosting (begin small) till you might be proud of the shade of inexperienced. Pipe a blob of frosting onto a cooled cupcake. Then garnish with chocolate sprinkles, edible eyes, and mini pretzel sticks.

Pumpkins: Use pure meals coloring or turmeric and freeze dried strawberry powder to attain an orange hue within the icing. Add a pretzel stem, inexperienced vines (use leftover inexperienced frosting from the monster cupcakes), and sprinkles over prime.

Bats: Swirl chocolate frosting onto a vegan cupcake, then add a mini OREO cookie for the pinnacle and a daily measurement cookie lower in half for the wings. Create eyes with an icing author or use edible eye candies.

Scary Spider Webs: This method is a bit more superior. If you happen to really feel comfy with an icing author, you may draw black spider webs on prime of white icing. Kind sweet spiders out of home made Chocolate Truffles and licorice legs.

Ghosts: Frost a cupcake, then place a large vegan marshmallow onto the frosting. Draw on eyes and an optionally available mouth with frosting.

Halloween Vegan Chocolate Cupcake Treats

Tailored from my Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes and Wholesome Chocolate Cupcakes.

1 cup flour (120g) (spelt, white, or gf all function) (For low carb: Keto Chocolate Cupcakes)
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (20g)
2 tbsp Dutch cocoa powder or further unsweetened cocoa powder (10g)
3/4 cup sugar or xylitol (150g)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup water (120g)
1/2 cup pumpkin puree (120g)
1/4 cup oil (48g) (can sub further water for fats free)
2 tsp pure vanilla extract (10g)
1 tsp apple cider vinegar (5g)
vegan Halloween decorations of selection (see above for concepts)

1. Preheat oven to 350° F (177° C).
2. Grease or line a cupcake tin, then set this pan apart.
3. Mix all dry substances in a big mixing bowl, and stir properly.
4. Add moist substances to type a cupcake batter. Stir till simply evenly mixed.
5. Portion into 9 cupcake tins, filling every about 2/3 of the way in which up.
6. Bake on the oven’s heart rack for 20 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out largely clear.
7. Let cool earlier than frosting. See above for detailed directions on find out how to flip the cupcakes into totally different Halloween characters.