Vegan Halloween Cupcakes – Chocolate Lined Katie

By Dr. Mike

October 23, 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 residence

Wish to be the preferred visitor at your upcoming Halloween social gathering?

Convey 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 components and tools

Vegan cupcakes – I’ve included the do-it-yourself recipe I used beneath. If it’s good to save time, you too can go together with a retailer purchased vegan chocolate cake combine.

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

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

Need do-it-yourself vegan frosting that works nice for piping? I exploit the vegan cream cheese frosting recipe written out on this submit for Vegan Carrot Cake.

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

Icing ideas and piping luggage – These must be available and fairly cheap at most grocery shops or craft shops. Nonetheless, they don’t seem to be required. You’ll be able to reduce a gap and pipe the frosting by a Ziploc bag if it’s all you’ve available.

Artistic 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 gildings and provides your coronary heart needs.

Find out how 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 effectively 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 giant cookie scoop, portion the batter into the ready pan. It ought to fill 9 normal measurement cupcake tins, going about 2/3 of the best way 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 principally clear.
Rigorously take away from the warmth and let cool earlier than adorning. This step ensures the frosting doesn’t soften upon touching a sizzling cupcake.
The vegan Halloween cupcakes could also be neglected at room temperature for just a few hours if transferring in a automotive or serving at a celebration. For longer storage, maintain leftovers lined within the fridge and eat inside 4 or 5 days.
Alternatively, you’ll be able to 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 12 months’s Halloween costume: Prehistoric cavewoman with Woolly Magnus sidekick. Magnus gained the unofficial award for finest dressed on the costume social gathering,

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 reduce 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. In case you really feel comfy with an icing author, you’ll be able to draw black spider webs on prime of white icing. Type sweet spiders out of do-it-yourself Chocolate Truffles and licorice legs.

Ghosts: Frost a cupcake, then place an enormous 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 goal) (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 alternative (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 components in a big mixing bowl, and stir effectively.
4. Add moist components to type a cupcake batter. Stir till simply evenly mixed.
5. Portion into 9 cupcake tins, filling every about 2/3 of the best way up.
6. Bake on the oven’s middle rack for 20 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out principally clear.
7. Let cool earlier than frosting. See above for detailed directions on find out how to flip the cupcakes into completely different Halloween characters.