Chocolate Ghost Cupcake Toppers are a hauntingly delightful way to dress up your cupcakes for Halloween! These spooky little spirits are made from smooth, melted chocolate and shaped into charming ghostly figures that float perfectly atop your favorite treats. Whether you're planning a spooky soirée or just want to surprise your kids with a fun baking project, these toppers are easy to make, fun to decorate, and irresistibly cute. With just a few ingredients and a bit of imagination, you'll have cupcakes that are more treat than trick. One BOO! and everyone will be reaching for seconds!

Ingredients:

1 x Roberts Edible Craft Halloween Mould 82

1 x 300g White Melting Buttons
1 x 1g Black Powder Dye
1 x 1g Orange Powder Dye
12 x Vanilla Cupcakes baked into Orange or Purple Foil Cases
Swiss Meringue Buttercream coloured purple
Sprinkles (optional addition)

Step 1. Melt white chocolate using your preferred method (our melting buttons come with some options written on the back side of the button pouch).

Step 2.  Paint the ghost only section of the mould using a fine tip paint brush and place the mould into the fridge to set.    

Tip:  when working with chocolate moulds, you always start with the deepest part of the mould first and fill that in.  Then you work backwards up to the top of the mould.  To ensure you have filled in all the small cavity area, you can hold the mould up, and look at the underside.  You dont want to see any air pockets or void spaces.    We also find a toothpick is a handy tool to push the melted chocolate into the small cavitiy spaces.  

Mould 82 comes with lots of different shapes on it.  Its easy to repeat these steps to use the other shapes on the mould.  See our recipe for PUMPKIN POPs also.

Step 3.  Put approx 50g of the melted chocolate into another small bowl and a small amount of the black powder dye. Using the back of a spoon to mix into a paste first, then add it into the remainder of the melted chocolate.  Why do we do this?  By mixing a small amount of white chocolate with the powder dye first and making a paste, it will be easier to incorporate that paste into the remaining white chocolate.  It will disperse easier and create a stronger colour.

Paint the BOO section of the mould and return to the fridge to set.

Step 4.  Colour the remaining melts with the Orange Powder dye, following the step you did for the Black. Fill in the rest of the mould ensuring you cover the White and Black sections. Return to the fridge to fully set. Depending on how thick you want your topper to be, will determine how much you fill up the mould.  If you fill all the way to the top the topper will end up being approx 1 cm thick.  If you do not want them this thick, just fill halfway.  As long as you can not see any of the black or white created in the prior steps. you will be good to go.  

Step 6.  Tip out the finished pieces, and place onto your baked and decorated cupcakes.

We used our Vanilla Mud Cake Mix to make the cupcakes baked into our Orange Foil Cupcake Papers.  Purple would also look good. 

500g will make 18 cupcakes using our standard foil cupcake cases  (Size 550 case).  If you want all of them to have a ghost topper, you can double the quantities or its just as visually stunning to decorate only 12 with the toppers, and 6 with just coloured icing and sprinkles. 

We also created some orange spider webs by putting any left over orange chocolate into a piping bag and piping the webs onto some baking papers.  Once set they can be used as a topper.  We also have lots of Halloween Sprinkles to select from or choose one of our single colour options.  All our sprinkles can be found here.