Gluten free and moist, these fun Chocolate Witches’ Leg Halloween Cupcakes will get you in the mood.
Everyone loves a chocolate cupcake, without question, and with this recipe, everyone can join in. Have a fun Halloween!
Let’s make Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes with cute witch’s legs
What’s not to love about having fun? If you’d like to make these special upside down Witch Leg Chocolate Cupcakes, then let’s get into it!
You will need:
- Butter, soft, preferably unsalted
- Sugar, fine caster sugar
- Vegetable oil ( for extra moistness)
- Eggs
- Almond meal or flour
- Gluten free flour
- Cocoa powder
- Xanthan gum ( optional)
- milk
- Deep Cupcake papers
- Straws
- Black roll-out icing or licorice
You will need to use a handheld or stand mixer to get the butter and sugar light and fluffy. This is a gluten-free recipe, and without gluten, a cake lacks some of the stretchiness that flour provides and can sometimes result in a crumbly texture. In this recipe, I have added 1/4 tsp of Xanthan gum. This helps to make the cake a little less crumbly. The recipe works without the addition of gum, but it is better with it added. Find it in the health section of the supermarket
Below:
Creamed butter and sugar, light and creamy. How I weigh my cupcake batter, filling the wrappers. A sample of how the cakes looked when cooked
This is what the crumb of a just-cooked cupcake will look like. And Xanthan gum!
Girls just wanna have fun
On the wrong side of 40 something clicks in your brain, and you just don’t care anymore. It’s a short and slippery slope from here in, and I am afraid that I want to laugh as I slide my way into the never never. Didn’t you always wonder why the older people in the family relished a wedding or a BBQ or a gathering and reunion? It is an old saying that fun is wasted on the young, and it’s true. By the time you really start looking forward to social events, that’s about the time they seem to dry up.
I was invited to a Christmas BBQ. It was billed on the invitation as a “Retro Party,” which of course means you dress up. My sister was visiting, and she also loves a bit of fun (must be a family trait). While out and about making a nuisance of ourselves, she helped me assemble a costume from treasures at the second-hand store and items from my wardrobe. This gave us hours of entertainment, snickering and laughing at the various additions to my costume, playing the music to match, and making memories that we can refer back to when I tell you what happened next.
Party Fun
The day of the party dawned warm, and everyone was out at the pool when I arrived late. I met several other party goers at the front door, who were looking just like themselves – in jeans and T-shirts. They looked at me with surprise but said nothing as we entered the house. I felt that was a bit worrying as I walked up a set of stairs and down a long straight walkway with the pool on one side and the garden fence on the other. Everyone was up under a tree in the far corner, and all stopped talking to stare at me as I walked towards them dressed as Madonna with my fishnet singlet, headscarf, heavy makeup, black boots, and skirt. All that could be heard was the jangling of my crucifixes and chain belts. As I approached the group, I could see that not one other person had bothered to dress up. What on earth do you do with a situation like that?. When your heart stops beating out of your chest and you just wanna’ have fun. Well…..you ask where the hell your drink is…?
Try these other Halloween bakes
Chocolate Halloween Cake with style 
I do hope that if you dress up at Halloween you won’t be the only fun one in the room.
Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes
Ingredients
Method
- Oven 170 C /340 F 12-14 cupcake papers in black, brown or green
- Use a bowl to whisk together the almond meal, gluten-free flour, cocoa, baking powder, and xanthan gum, set aside.
- Beat the softened butter, oil and the sugar and keep beating till white and fluffy.
- Add the room temperature eggs one at a time, mixing until emulsified.
- Add half of the dry ingredients and 1/2 the milk, mixing very slowly as this could create flour flying everywhere. Mix well and then add the remaining flour and milk. Beat together well, scraping down the bottom. Then mixing again very well.
- Drop spoonfuls into cupcake papers ( I put the papers onto the scale and measure 60 gm each). If there are no scales, fill to 3/4 full and smooth down the top. The cakes will rise well and stay flat on the top. Bake for 25 minutes. A skewer inserted will come out clean, but the top will feel a little soft. This will firm up when they cool. Cool. Before spreading with icing.
- Beat the second lot of softened butter till light, then add the softened cream cheese and beat again until smooth, then gradually add icing sugar 1/2 at a time. Taste, if you like it sweeter, add a little more sugar (up to 1/4 cup) and beat well. Add lemon juice to taste.
- Put into a piping bag or spread icing onto cooled cakes.
- You can make the boots by moulding the soft liquorice or roll out icing into shoe shapes with your hands. Use a pointy object like a skewer to make enough of a round hole to slot the straw into the boot.
Notes
G’day Tania! love your Halloween cupcakes, true!
I hope you saved one for me too! lol
Great photos!
Cheers! Joanne
Viewed as part of Nancy’s YBR Oct Round Up
Guilty as charged. I’m afraid I’d be the one in jeans looking like me. Love the cupcakes though, they’re very cute! And I never knew you could mould liquorish what a great idea!