Vampire Cupcakes for Halloween

Make cute vampire cupcakes for your Halloween party. These non-scary vampires are perfect for kids to enjoy at home or Halloween parties at school.

No time to bake cupcakes from scratch? Easily decorate store bought or semi-homemade cupcakes with this vampire cupcake tutorial. I’ve also included printable instructions at the end of this post.

Bats and vampires go well together and these coffee filter bats make great decorations to hang near your cupcakes. Plus, kids will have a terrific time creating them!

Want more spooky treats? Check out these mummy themed recipes and even more Halloween party food ideas.

Halloween Vampire Cupcakes Recipe

Making cupcake decorations with fondant is fun and I love how easy it is to assemble these vampire faces.

These fondant vampire heads are an excellent way to dress up and decorate store bought cupcakes. You can easily use a box cake mix or your favorite from scratch cupcake recipe too.

If you want a yummy chocolate cupcake for your vampires, check out the homemade chocolate cupcake recipe in our easy ghost cupcakes tutorial.

Besides Halloween parties, these also make sweet treats for a Halloween family movie nights.

Serve these vampire cupcakes for a Transylvania Hotel or Addams Family movie viewing party with the kids!

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Vampire Cupcake Ingredients

Printable instructions are also available at the bottom of this post for you.

• Cake mix + all the ingredients to make it**
• 5-6 oz. white fondant
• Brown gel food coloring
• 3-4 oz black fondant
• Black decorating icing
• ½ stick butter, softened
• 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
• 1 TBSP milk

Tools Needed

• 2.5 inch circle cookie cutter
• Heart cookie cutter
• Wilton decorating tip #5 round
• Pastry Mat

**Please note: This ingredient list and tutorial is for making 12 vampire faces with fondant. Most cake mixes yield approximately 24 cupcakes.

You can cut the cupcake recipe in half to make a dozen cupcakes, double the fondant ingredients to make more vampire cupcakes, or you can decorate 12 as vampires and the rest as something else.

How to Make Vampire Cupcakes

Use your favorite cupcake recipe or use a box cake mix to prepare and bake cupcakes according to package directions. Remember to allow cupcakes to completely cool before you begin decorating.

Take the white fondant and set aside about 1 ounce of it. Add a drop of brown gel food coloring to the rest of the white fondant and knead until it is completely tinted. 

Roll out the beige fondant to about ¼ of an inch thick. Use the circle cookie cutter and cut out 12 circles. These will be the vampire faces.

Next, roll out the black fondant to about ¼ of an inch thick. Use the circle cookie cutter and cut out 6 circles.

Now, we’ll make the vampire’s hair with the black fondant circles.

To create the vampire’s widow’s peak, use the heart cookie cutter to trim off ¾ of the black circle. What will be left is the top portion of the circle with a point in the middle.

Flip that black fondant circle and repeat. You should be able to make 2 widow peaks per black circle.

Place one widow peak onto each beige fondant circle. Lightly brush water on the back of each fondant piece to help secure it in place.

With the remaining 1 oz of white fondant, roll out 24 small spheres, about ¼ of an inch in size.

Roll each sphere into a small oval and flatten it slightly. Give each one a point at the bottom – these are the vampire fangs.

I suggest frosting your cupcakes and placing the fondant vampire faces before adding the final details.

To make homemade buttercream frosting, place butter, confectioner’s sugar and milk in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer. Start the mixer on slow and gradually increase the speed to high.

Once ingredients are well combined and form semi-stiff peaks, apply a thin layer of frosting with an offset spatula. (You can also use store bought frosting if you prefer).

After frosting the cupcakes, place one fondant vampire face on top of each cupcake.

Use the #5 Wilton decorating tip on the black decorating icing to add two dots for eyes on the vampire’s face and a curved line for its smile.

Place two fondant fangs on each icing smile.

Serve and enjoy your adorable vampire cupcakes!

More Ideas for Halloween:

• Creepy Monster Eye Tea Light Craft
• Monster Bookmarks Craft for Kids
• DIY Halloween Decoration Crafts
• Spooky Cookies and Halloween Food Ideas
• Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Rice Crispy Treats
• Easy Mummy Rice Crispy Treats
• Maleficent Halloween Party Printables

Printable Fondant Vampire Cupcakes Instructions