https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/chocolate-skull-cupcake-toppers • Posted by Cassandra
I made these to top some cupcakes I made my friend for his birthday (to match the other assorted skull themed goodies) but I think they're just a perfect for a Halloween treat. You can serve them alone or use them as toppers like I did. It's all up to you.
I made these to top some cupcakes I made my friend for his birthday (to match the other assorted skull themed goodies) but I think they're just a perfect for a Halloween treat. You can serve them alone or use them as toppers like I did. It's all up to you.
Cover your baking sheet with wax paper. This will be your work surface. Once your chocolates have dried they will slide neatly off of the wax paper with no problem.
Put some of the white chocolate chips into one of your microwave safe bowls.
Melt the white chocolate chips in the microwave. You'll need to check on them occasionally and stir them with a spoon to make sure that they are melting evenly. Don't heat them for too long or at too high of a setting because they will begin to burn and you'll end up with a crusty yucky mess like I did my first try >.< Just play with the power settings and times on your microwave until you get it right.
Use a spoon to fill a plastic sandwich baggie with the chocolate. Close it up and then squeeze the chocolate towards one end. To get a good number of skulls you may have to melt more chocolate and fill multiple bags so have them handy.
Cut the corner you squeezed the chocolate towards off and viola, you have a make-shift icing bag! (If you already have icing bags and/ or tips you can use those instead. I'm sure you could come up with some really cool effects.)
Use your make-shift (or real) icing bag to make a basic skull shape.
Repeat until you have the desired number of skulls. I didn't count and ended up with less skulls than cupcakes (oops).
While you let your skulls dry put some of your dark chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl.
Microwave them until they're nice and melted. They shouldn't give you as much of a hard time as the white chocolate chips but I'd still suggest checking on them and stirring them a few times.
Flip your skulls over so that you have the nice flat side then take a toothpick and coat them with dark chocolate. You don't have to do this step, I just thought it would be nice to balance the flavor of the white chocolate with some extra dark chocolate on the backs of the skulls.
After letting your skulls dry again, flip them back over so you can start working on the details. I started by using a toothpick to create an outline of dark chocolate. It makes the white pop a little bit more.
Once that's done you can use a toothpick to create the face. There are a bunch of different ways you can do this. You can even incorporate candy, different colored icing, sprinkles, and pretty much anything you can think of.
You're all done! Either serve your chocolates as they are, use them to top some cupcakes, or do something else creative with them.