Halloween Cupcakes

So, the other day I was hired to make some halloween cupcakes for my friend's party. I decided to make a graveyard with headstones, a fence around it, and an entrance. I also colored the cupcake batter yellow and orange and mixed them in the cupcakes so it would make the cupcakes more halloween-ish. Below I included pictures and the how- to on making these graveyard cupcakes. Oh yeah, for ingredients I used 1 box of white cake mix, yellow and orange food coloring, chocolate and white chocolate melting wafers, chocolate frosting, oreo cookies, milano cookies, white frosting, black gel frosting, and candy corn (optional)

First, I made white cupcake batter so that it could easily be colored. I separated the batter about half and half and colored them orange and yellow. Then I poured the orange batter in each cupcake about one fourth and then I poured the yellow batter a little more so each cupcake was about 2/3 full of batter.

Then I cooked the cupcakes for the time listed on the box, about 20 minutes I think. They came out looking like the picture above. Then I let them cool for a while. Whilst they were cooling, I started making the fence to go around the graveyard. I did this by melting some chocolate wafers in a ziplock bag, no sealed, in the microwave with 10 second intervals. Then I sealed the bag up and snipped a hole in one corner. I covered a cookie sheet with wax paper and then just drew out some fences and a gate for the graveyard. I also melted some white wafers and wrote CEMETARY onto the sign for the graveyard. Too bad I'm retarded and thats not how you spell cemetEry. Whatever. Then I stuck those in the fridge and left 'em overnight.

While those puppies were getting cold in the fridge, I frosted the cupcakes with chocolate frosting. Then, I crushed up some oreos in a bowl and took each cupcake and rolled the top to cover it in oreos to look like dirt. 

Then i started to make the headstones. I did this by taking some milano cookies and cutting the bottom half to a point so it could easily be stuck into a cupcake. I then frosted the cookies with vanilla frosting, and then took some black gel frosting and wrote scribbles or R.I.P.

Then I stuck the headstones into the middle 6 cupcakes. Then I took the fence and entrance to the graveyard out of the fridge and stuck those into the cupcakes. I broke the fence a little in random places to make it look old and scarier. Then I sprinkled some candy corn onto the bottom of the cupcake holder and stuck some plastic cats into some cupcakes. You could also go crazy and add some pumpkins or something else to the graveyard.