Zombie Cupcakes!

I know this is a few days past Halloween, but these are too cute not to post about! Save these for next year or for a Zombie Party! I know those are pretty popular with the kiddos at the moment.

These are pretty simple.

Here's what you'll need:

1 Box of Chocolate Cake Mix and everything you will need to make it!

Vanilla Frosting

Oreo Cookies

Milano Cookies

Black Cake Mate Frosting and Tip Set

1/4 Cup Lime Green Candy Melts

Wax Paper

Pen and Paper

Lime Green Food Coloring, I used the color from the Neon set

1, 8 oz package Philadelphia Cream Cheese

1 Egg

1/3 C. White Sugar

1/4 tsp. Salt

1. Mix your Chocolate Cake according to package directions. Set aside.

2. In a bowl mix together 8 oz. cream cheese, 1/3 cup white sugar, 1 egg, and 1/4 tsp. salt. You will want to use an electric mixer and mix for about 2 minutes. Add lime green food coloring. Set aside.

3. Put cupcake paper liners in a cupcake pan. Fill 1/2 the way with the chocolate cake batter. Add 1-2 tsp. of the "surprise filling" right on top!

4. Bake for the required time the cake mix suggests.

5. Take 1/4 cup of your lime green candy melts, add about 2 tsp. shortening and melt in the microwave.

6. While the candy melts are melting down, draw a "Zombie Hand" on a piece of paper. Mine is about 2 inches tall. Make sure to draw a long arm to stick in the "earth!" This will be your template for all of the zombie arms.

7. Take a small ziplock bag and cut a hole in it. You dont have to use a tip like I did with these Cake Mate ones, but it will only help. A small hole would also work. :D

8. Add the melted chips to the baggie and squeeze it to the tip!

9. Place the wax paper over your Zombie hand drawing and pipe away!

They don't have to be perfect, they are the "living dead" ya know! haha.
10. Put the frosting into a bowl and whip it up with an electric mixer for about a minute. Take about 12 whole Oreo cookies and put them in a blender or food processor until very fine. Add the crushed Oreos to the frosting and whip uintil thoroughly blended. Set the frosting aside.

11. Take 10 Oreo cookies, minus the cream filling, and blend until very fine. Set aside.
12. Carefully cut the Milano cookies in half, horizontally, and use the black Cake Mate frosting with the fine tip to spell out "R.I.P." for the headstone!
13. Assemble the cupcakes as follows:

I made this same idea into mini cakes using a 4 inch spring form pan! I also added Candy Pumpkins and "trees" made of chocolate licorice and black wire. =)