Ingredients

Directions

Shane Smith's ghost cupcake recipe makes 12.
  1. Preheat your oven to 180C fan and line a deep cupcake tray with 12 paper cases.
  2. In a mixing bowl, cream the Kerrygold Unsalted Butter and caster sugar together until soft & creamy.
  3. Gradually add in the eggs and scrape down between each addition.
  4. Next, add the sieved flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and mix well.
  5. Finally, carefully add the boiling water and mix until smooth & fully incorporated.
  6. Divide this mix between the 12 cases and pop into the preheated oven and bake for 18-20 minutes.
  7. Remove once baked and allow to cool.
  8. While the cupcakes are cooling, it’s time to make the chocolate ghosts. Simply melt the white chocolate in a bowl set over a pot of warm water and stir until melted.
  9. Using a teaspoon, spoon 12 spoonfuls/circles of white chocolate onto a sheet of parchment paper and using the back of the spoon, drag through the chocolate veering to one side to create a ghost shape. You can add eyes and mouth to the ghosts using melted dark chocolate. Pop these into the fridge to firm up and set.
  10. For the buttercream icing, add the room temperature Kerrygold Unsalted Butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder and vanilla into a bowl and beat for 5 minutes until soft, smooth and pipeable.
  11. To assemble, place the buttercream into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle and pipe a rosette on top of each cooled cupcake.
  12. Decorate this with the chocolate ghosts and edible sugar eyes and enjoy!

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