Halloween Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

These Halloween Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes are super adorable, very easy to make, and are perfect for a Halloween party or school class Halloween treat.

When Allison’s preschool teacher appointed me “Cupcake Mom”, at first I was flattered and then I was scared.  We had a lot to live up to since the Little Fishy Cupcakes were such a huge hit.  Laurie and I have been brainstorming about what would be fun for the kids for Halloween.  We thought about what we liked to do as kids and what Allison loves to do – go to the pumpkin patch.  (To be fair young Laurie and Nancy would have loved the modern-day pumpkin patches too. Bounce houses, pony rides, face painting.  What’s not to love?)   We loved the way these Halloween Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes turned out.  They were fun and easy, and the kids in Allison’s class are going to love them.

Make a Batch of Cupcakes

Step 1: Make a batch of cupcakes.  You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe.  We used vanilla cupcakes but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too.

Make the Buttercream Frosting

Step 2: The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe.   It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here.  One batch of frosting will be enough to frost 18 cupcakes. 

Color the Frosting

Step 3:  Now it is time to tint the frosting. We like the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.  It is concentrated and you can get a bright color without having to use too much food coloring. We split the frosting into two portions, added food coloring, and Green and Orange frosting with the following food coloring formulas:

Green: 8 drops of blue food coloring and 3 drops of yellow food coloring.
Orange: 5 drops of orange food coloring and 1 drop of red food coloring

How to Create the Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

Steps 4-5: Cover the top of the cupcake in green Buttercream Frosting.  We used a pastry bag and a Wilton Frosting Tip #233 to get this “grass” effect.  But this cupcake would also look great if you just smoothed on some green frosting with a knife.

Steps 6-9:  Using our fingers, we pulled off 1/3 of the marshmallow from the top. Using a knife, we covered the marshmallow in Orange Buttercream frosting.  You don’t need a lot of frosting here – apply just enough to give the M&M’s something to stick onto. Then, place a dollop of the orange frosting in the center of the cupcake and place the frosted marshmallow on that frosting as shown in the pictures above.

Steps 10-13: Pull out all of the orange M&M’s from a large bag of M&M’s.  You’ll need about 20-25 M&M’s for each Halloween Pumpkin Patch Cupcake. With the “M” side down, start placing the orange M&M’s around the Marshmallow.  Start with the first row before moving on to the second row.  As you can see in these pictures, you can angle the first row of M&M’s to replicate the rounded edge of a bottom of a pumpkin. For the top of the pumpkin, add five orange M&M’s and then a single green M&M to represent the pumpkin stem.

Other Halloween Cupcakes You Will Love

• Bewitched Marble Cupcakes
• Bewitched Halloween Swirl Cupcakes
• Brownie Cupcakes

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