Happy Halloween Week Everyone!
One of my favorite things about visiting a Disney Park during the holiday seasons is the festive cupcakes and treats that Disney sells. While visiting Disneyland Resort I enjoyed seeing the Halloween creations made by Disney’s talented Cast Members and as usual, they did not disappoint. Here’s a look at some of my favorites!
Anytime of the year you can find amazing character apples, but I think during the Halloween season the selection is Spooktacular!
As soon as I saw Mickey Mummy treats I wanted to run home and make them!
However, first I decided to make my version of these adorable Mickey Mouse pumpkin cupcakes! They were so easy to make. It took less than a half hour for 20 cupcakes. Would you like to make some during this week of Halloween?
My simple version of Disneyland’s cupcakes have a marshmallow based icing. I used the “Super-Easy Marshmallow Icing” recipe by King Arthur Flour. You can check out the photo tutorial on how I made the cupcakes, including the icing below.
Gather your supplies. The icing recipe is for 24 cupcakes so that’s how many cupcakes I made. However, I was only able to transform 20 cupcakes before running out of icing.
You’ll need the recipe for the “Super-Easy Marshmallow Icing” and you can find it here:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/super-easy-marshmallow-icing-recipe .
- Tootsie Rolls (Not Shown Below) are used for the pumpkin stem.
- Chocolate wafer melts (Not Shown Below) are used for Mickey’s Ears.
- Green icing- optional (Not Shown Below) is used to make the leaf.
- The photo below shows you the ingredients I used to make the icing: Salt, Vanilla Extract, Heavy Cream, Powdered Sugar and Marshmallows.
As the recipe states, make sure you continuously stir the ingredients while they are heating or the marshmallows will stick. It took a bit longer than I expected for the marshmallows to start to melt and then all of a sudden it started sticking at warp speed.
Once the marshmallows, heavy cream, sugar, and salt have blended together this is what the icing looked like.
After I poured the mixture into a large mixer bowl, I added the vanilla AND equal amounts of red and yellow food coloring to create orange icing.
As the recipe suggested, I covered the orange icing and refrigerated it overnight.
You did a beautiful job on these!! I had one of these Mickey Pumpkin cupcakes on my last #HalloweenTime trip and it was yummy 🙂 Hope your cupcakes were as tasty as they were pretty!
Thank you Julie! I’m curious, what type of icing did Disney use in making their Pumpkin Mickey Cupcakes? They looked wonderful! My husband and kids inhaled my version of the cupcakes so I’m taking it as a sign they were yummy 🙂 Thanks for visiting the blog and have a Happy Halloween!
So cute! I’m going to have to try to make the frosting sometime. It sounds too good!
Thanks Lisa! The kids really liked eating the icing and I enjoyed decorating with it because it has a thick consistency to it. Thanks for stopping by the blog! ope you and your family have a Happy Halloween!
These are so cute! I’m going to have to make them sometime!
I’ve never heard of marshmallow icing. I’m not a huge icing fan, in general, but I’ll have to give this recipe a try. Your cupcakes turned out FABULOUS (as do all your creations!)
Everything about these look amazing. I love the idea of marshmallow frosting, yum. Thanks for sharing!
This is awesome! I live the mash up of the pumpkin and mickey mouse, and it’s so simple to do!
Thank you Kayla! They are super easy to make and chocolate is always welcome in my book. Thanks for stopping by the blog Kayla and for leaving a comment.