Easy Chocolate Halloween Mummy Cupcakes Recipe

Let’s make some fun Halloween Mummy Cupcakes! These adorable cupcakes are perfect for classroom parties, playdates, birthday parties, and your next Halloween party.

Halloween offers many things: costume fun, celebrations with friends, and a fantastic excuse to bake adorable and delicious goodies!

Every year, our family has so much fun with Halloween! We make fun crafts like Toilet Paper Roll Monsters and play exciting games like Ghost Pong Minute To Win It.

And we host Halloween parties and gatherings and let the kids play Halloween Bingo.

Of course, we make cute and delicious treats like Easy Halloween Wicked Witch Cupcakes, Witches Cauldron Easy Halloween Cake Pops, and

Along with a few savory or gory eats such as Zombie Guts Cinnamon Rolls and Mummy Jalapeno Poppers With Bacon.

There are many fun images from which to gain inspiration, but few Halloween images are as fun to create as mummies!

Now, when you do a Google search on mummy cupcakes, you will find lots of examples that have frosting criss-crossed over the top of the cupcakes. I wanted to make some fun mummy cupcakes, but I wanted to approach them a little differently from everyone else.

So I used Nutter Butter cookies to create my mummies, and I love how these cupcakes turned out! Aren’t they fun?

Why you’ll love these mummy cupcakes

• They’re super easy! If you need a recipe that’s ideal for any level of baker/decorator, this is IT!
• It’s flexible – make delicious homemade cupcakes from scratch, use an easy cake mix, or get pre-made cupcakes from your grocery store or local bakery.
• They’re adorable instead of super scary, so kids of ALL ages will enjoy them!

Nutter Butter Mummy Cupcakes

These fun Halloween cupcakes are a breeze to make – so much easier than they may look at first glance! Here’s the entire process from start to finish.

Ingredients Needed

Gather up these simple ingredients:

• Prebaked cupcakes
• Buttercream icing
• Nutter Butter cookies
• White almond bark (or white candy melts)
• Candy eyes

Equipment Needed:

• Cupcake liners
• Piping bags
• Piping tip 1M
• Scissors

Note: For the full recipe, please check the handy printable recipe card at the bottom of the post!

How To Make Mummy Cupcakes

Even if you don’t have cupcake decorating experience, you CAN make these easy mummy cupcakes! Just follow these simple steps.

Step 1

Add almond bark to a microwave-safe bowl.

Step 2

Melt in increments of 30 seconds, stirring between each until smooth (about 1.5-2min).

Step 3

Dip Nutter Butter Cookies fully in the candy coating.

Step 4

Place on parchment paper and place in the fridge for 5 min.

Step 5

Add the remaining chocolate to a piping bag.

Step 6

Once cookies are beginning to set, draw the mummy wrapping bandages across the top.

Step 7

Attach the candy eye balls for mummy eyes.

Step 8

Let set completely.

Step 9

Add buttercream frosting to a piping bag fitted with a tip 1M.

Step 10

Make a swirl on top of the cupcake, raising the bag slightly above the cupcake.

Step 11

Add a Nutter Butter mummy to the side, as shown in the image.

Enjoy!

Premade or Homemade Chocolate Mummy Cupcakes?

When it comes to cupcakes, I personally LOVE the taste of homemade cupcakes. But unfrosted cupcakes from the store taste incredible too, and they are a GREAT time-saver! (no judgement!)

The same thing goes for icing. Homemade frosting is fresh and amazing, but you can save time by using store-bought frosting. Unless you’re a culinary expert (and how many kids are?), you won’t notice the difference without them being side by side.

Other frosting alternatives include cream cheese frosting on the cupcakes and strips of fondant as the mummy bandages. Personally, I don’t love the method of using fondant because, in this instance, it’s MUCH more time-consuming and produces (I think) inferior results.

Mummy Halloween Cupcakes Tips

• Use ANY flavor of cupcakes that you want, but I highly recommend using chocolate cupcakes for this recipe!
• Your cupcakes need to be completely cooled before you decorate them.
• You may need to use a tiny dab of frosting on the back of the eyes to attach them to the cookies (or set them into the lines of frosting that are the mummy’s wrappings.
• Swap out the candy eyes for mini chocolate chips or small dabs of black frosting.

Mummy Cupcakes FAQs

Wouldn’t these mummy cupcakes be SO cute at your next Halloween get-together? And they’d be a hit at a Halloween classroom party!

More Halloween Inspiration

• Breakable Halloween Mummy Candy Bombs
• Halloween Snow White Poison Apple Cocktail Or Mocktail
• Bone Breadsticks For Halloween
• Graveyard Oreo Halloween Dirt Cups Dessert