Halloween Spiced Cupcakes with Black Velvet Buttercream 🎃👻💀🦇

Great ooglie booglies and Happy Halloween! 🎃👻💀🦇

Subtly spiced cupcakes for fall, with ghosts and goblins and all!

 
Halloween Spiced Cupcakes with Black Velvet Buttercream 🎃👻💀🦇

Cupcakes:
1½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
½ tsp. ground ginger
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
¼ tsp. ground cloves
½ cup unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
½ cup sour cream
¼ cup milk

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes.

Beat in the eggs one at a time, then add the vanilla extract.

Mix in the sour cream until smooth.

Add the dry ingredients in three additions, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.

Fill cupcake liners about two-thirds full.

Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Black Buttercream Frosting:

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
4 cups powdered sugar
3 Tbs. heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp. salt
black gel food coloring

Beat the butter until creamy and smooth.

Gradually add the powdered sugar, one cup at a time.

Mix in the vanilla, salt, and enough cream to achieve a fluffy piping consistency.

Add black gel food coloring a little at a time until a deep black color is achieved.

Beat for several minutes to develop a silky texture.

Decorations:
candy corn
pumpkin candies
edible gold glitter and sparkles

Pipe generous swirls of black buttercream onto each cooled cupcake. Garnish with candy corn and pumpkin candies, then finish with a sprinkle of edible gold glitter for a touch of Halloween magic.