Halloween Cupcakes - Midnight Madness

Halloween cupcakes can often be complicated.  Here is a simple one that is still impressive.

What you need:

Cupcakes
White or vanilla icing
Black food coloring (preferably black gel from Wilton)
Autumn colored non-pareils
Candy corn pumpkins

How to do it:

Take your Icing and add the food coloring until the icing is black.  You can leave it white if you want.  The flavor will not be effected.

Ice your cupcake.

This is the white icing version

Place the non-pareils in a dish.

Place the edge of the cupcake in the dish to cover with non-pareils and twist until the entire edge of the cupcake is covered. 

This is the white icing version

Place the candy corn in the middle of the cupcake and press into place.

The completed black version is located on the upper right