DIY Halloween Cupcakes for Our Doll Bakery

Our spooky treats are lined up on top of a black tin tray and displayed with purple
 bat lights, Halloween fabric, creepy eyeballs in a beaker and
comical bat shaped candy dish.

       Three Halloween cupcake designs by kathy grimm for doll sized holiday treats. Shape simple eyeballs, spider webs and witch caps using clay and puff paints. When selecting cupcake liners, choose playful patterns and Halloween colors to make these clay creations look even more appetizing!

 Supply List:

• Sculpey oven bake clay
• small wooden spools
• hot glue and glue gun or wood glue
• black puff paint
• acrylic paints: orange, purple, white, blue
• red, orange and purple sparkly glitter glue
• two types of Halloween cupcake liners
• tiny star stickers

 Step-by-Step Instructions:

• First you will need to sculpt the eyeballs and witch hats from oven bake clay. These should be baked at 275 degrees for 3-4 minutes. Read the packages instructions carefully before beginning. 
• I use Sculpey clay for my doll cupcake crafts. Sculpey will adhere to itself while baking so, you can prebake some smaller pieces and then push these into soft, unbaked clay. This process works best when shaping very tiny sculptures. Tiny clay shapes can loose definition when they are being attached soft surface to soft surface. 
• Shape the swirled icing by stacking long rope-like clay pieces on top of each other. End the swirled faux icing by pinching off the tip. Push the baked decorative hats and eyeballs into the unbaked clay icing and then bake all of these parts together again at 275 for a few more minutes.
• Glue these miniature stacked elements onto wooden spools or short stump like tubes.
• Paint the wooden spools a Halloween cupcake color. I used brown paint for chocolate cake.
• Paint the top elements in: orange, white, green, black or purple. See pictures below.
• Use puff paints and glitter glues to decorate the cupcakes with even more detail. I used a red glitter glue to add a bit of realistic color to the eyeball cupcakes. I used a black puff paint to add spider web details on some cupcakes and ribbons around the witch hats.
• Glue on remaining stickers for stars on the witch hats.
• Now seal your creations with Mod Podge.
• Use hot glue to attach the trimmed cupcake liners around the circumference of each cupcake. 
• Take remaining scraps cut away from the cupcake liners and cut/trim off covers for the bottoms of each cupcake. Glue these in place.

Left, Push the baked decorative hats and eyeballs into the unbaked icing and then
bake all of these parts together again at 275 for a few more minutes.
 Right, Use puff paints and glitter glues to decorate the cupcakes
 with even more details.

Close up views of the Halloween cupcakes for all your 18" dolls.