Divide batter among the cupcake liners and bake until a toothpick comes out with a few crumbs only, about 22 minutes. Add to the batter and mix until incorporated. In a small bowl or measuring cup, combine the vinegar and baking soda. Alternate until all of the dry ingredients and buttermilk have been added. Add 1/3 dry ingredients to the mixer and blend until just combined, then add 1/2 of the buttermilk. In a medium bowl, sift together the cake flour and cocoa powder. Add the egg and mix on medium speed until just incorporated. In an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or paddle, if necessary), mix the sugar, butter, oil, black colour, vanilla, and salt on medium speed until very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Line a muffin tin with 12 standard cupcake liners. Here's the recipe for these dark and delightful treats: I found these toppers on one of my favourite shop websites, Hey Yo Yo, but I'm pretty sure any clown topper would add the eery-factor. So there are exceptions.īut, for the most part clowns = scary. I want to hang this on my wall and be with it always. This image ( from Flickr) is so hauntingly beautiful that I can honestly say it's the only clown photo that I have ever seen that is almost creepiness-free. Despite their being creepy and evil, though, I can't help but being strangely drawn to them. Which, again, is why they adorn my cupcakes. Evil. At least this is how I feel about them, and why they adorn my Halloween cupcakes. Don't be fooled by their smiles-they are pure evil. There they sit perched atop the otherwise innocent cupcake staring at us. Who said Halloween was scary?Įesh, you're right-creepy clowns are watching us. Or just do what I do and eat a few of the cupcakes warm from the oven, sans frosting, and then take your time later with one (or two) fully frosted version and a strong cup of good coffee. That being said, I'm pretty sure that the classic cream cheese frosting would be magical in its own right. You could certainly omit this step, but it's kind of a magic pairing, if I do say so. Rather than topping them with a completely classic cream cheese frosting, I decided to add a few tablespoons of Bonne Maman Cherry Preserves. Paired with an almost-traditional Cream Cheese Frosting, these cupcakes are like tradition-with-a-twist. I've posted about a Red Velvet Cake in the past, but this time I started with a recipe I found from King Arthur Flour, and I played around with it. I'm usually pretty disciplined, but I could not stop eating these. With your eyes open, the deep, dark colour (whether it's red, black, or purple) somehow makes the whole experience that much more decadent and luxurious. 
With your eyes closed, it's really a slightly chocolate, buttermilk cake that's super tender, moist, and rich. But if you've not had "velvet" cake of any kind before, don't be fooled-this just isn't chocolate cake tinted with copious amounts of food colour. If you've not made Black Velvet cake before, you've probably figured out that it's just like the southern delight, Red Velvet cake, but very black, rather than red.
Since they reminded me of a pink circus, I thought they'd be fun to use for these creepy-but-sweet carnival cupcakes, but really, any fun cupcake liner would do. Because they're rigid, I wasn't sure how they would work in terms of actually eating the cupcake, but with a little pull of the seam, it's easily removed. I found these amazing Robert Gordon Australia cupcake liners last week while shopping at our Canadian shop, Winners (kind of similar to the American Marshall's), and I was eager to try them out. There's a good chance that these would have been a cake (and still may be), but every time I think I'm over cupcakes, I go and find cupcake-related doodads that steal my heart. (Kind of like this not-so-eery-but-whimsical confection from my last post.) So I decided to create another treat this week that's been on my mind: Black Velvet Cupcakes topped with Cherry Cream Cheese Frosting. It should be as intriguing as it is eery. It's possible that it's a little backwards, but to me Halloween should be as enchanting as it is creepy.
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