McCormick recently asked me to be a part of their Spooky Squad, and share some of their (and my) fun Halloween ideas with my readers, as well as host a giveaway full of great Halloween baking goodies. McCormick has a number of fun Halloween recipes up on their website and on their Monster Mash Pinterest board. I decided to make their Candy Corn Cupcakes and put my own spin on them by topping them with Candy Corn Cake Pops.
You could whip up these or some other fun treats with your own Spooky Squad Kit from McCormick.
The candy corn cupcakes were very easy to make. I followed the directions on McCormick for the cupcakes. I made half of my cupcakes in the orange and yellow combo as the directions called for, then made the rest of my cupcakes in solid yellow and solid orange. After baking, the solid color cupcakes were on their way to becoming cake pops (well, cake balls to be exact). You can see how I make my cake pops in this post.
For each cake pop/ball, I would take a bit of the yellow cake and a bit of the orange cake and work them together. The more you work them together the more of a marbled effect you will get.
After that they were dipped in chocolate coating, given a few sprinkles and topped with a candy corn. The cupcakes were frosted with vanilla frosting and topped with some sprinkles as well (can’t really get enough sprinkles).
Yay for cupcakes, cake pops and candy corn!
Yum.
Ah love a cake pop topped cupcake!
To see how I make my cake pops, check out this post! I mixed these ones with vanilla frosting and as usual I go by the consistency of the mixture versus a specific amount of frosting (as every cake/frosting is a bit unique). I always start with a little bit of frosting and add a bit at a time to get to the desired consistency.
GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED! THANK YOU! I have another fun idea using the Spooky Squad Kit to share later in the week that is a great one to do with the kids (and no-bake!). Would you like to win your own Spooky Squad kit from McCormick? To enter to win Use the Rafflecopter Widget below to enter. Open to US Residents only. Good luck and thanks for entering! A winner will be selected at random on 10/22/12.
I like to make Rice Krispies with candy corn mixed in. It’s a delicious form of sugar overload
I love candy corn and adding them to popcorn and making candy corn popcorn balls.
I love candy corn and peanuts ! Candy corn M&M’s are new favorite also !
Fingers crossed….this looks awesome!
These look wonderful … I can’t wait to give them a try
These would be great with the candy corn fudge I made last week!
omg im so excited by this prize pack
love, love love the mccormicks spooky squad kit!! can you purchase these !?!?
I love making sugar cookies decorated scary for halloween.
Those look soo good! I love everything candy corn!
I love the way chocolate cupcakes with orange frosting looks. It’s so simple, but classic!
This project looks like a lot of fun!
Candy Corn treats are the best.
These are truly amazing!
I am a sucker for the mellocreme pumpkins. My earliest Halloween memory is of recieving a cupcake (not sure what flavor) with one of those pumpkins on top. Love to munch on them.
Opps… Contest entry: My favorite Halloween treat to eat are those little candy pumpkins. They basically taste like candy corn, but slightly different.
My favorite sweet is almond joy bars.
These are so cute. I love your website.
Awesome Halloween ideas!!
Do you just mix the crumbled cake for the pops or do you mix something with the crumbs?
Gingerbread! I’m originally from England and its a firm favourite around the Autumn, specifically for Halloween and Bonfire night. Its great when cut into spooky shapes like Gravestones, ghouls and zombie Gingerbread people (arms and legs missing, perhaps even a head!).
We always make some kind of cupcake decorated for Halloween,last year we decorated chocolate cupcakes to look like little monsters.
I love to make chocolate whoopie pies with orange filling!
Love these!
OH MY GOSH! These are gorgeous, Christi! I love that you topped the cupcakes with candy corn cake balls. TOO. STINKIN. CUTE. You’re brilliant!
As for Halloween, my favorite treat has to be candy corn. I love the stuff! Though I also really, really love caramel apples.
Too cute! Great halloween treat
what an excellent idea, great to mix-um your favorites of the season…
I like to make pumpkin rice crispie treats with the Candy Corn M&Ms mixed in!
Looks like fun.
How cute. I would not be able to get my daughter to eat a candy Corn (Garcia effect), but these I am sure she will eat. I need to try these.
Such adorable cupcakes!
I love anything Candy Corn
Every year, I make a creepy Halloween layer cake. Last year was a strawberry human heart cake.
I love to make anything with pumpkin…waffles, bread, soup. Cracking open that first can of pumpkin puree is one of the best parts of Fall!
This makes me excited and hopeful that I can make a CakePop! Last time I tried it was a huge epic fail!!!
Pumpkin Bread! or Pumpkin Chili both are yummy!!
I love to make Halloween Sugar Cookies…. boring, I know! LOL
I love making pumpkin bars! With lots of cream cheese icing
mmmm
Awesome giveaway. Thank you
pumpkin spice cheesecake brownies!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies!
That all looks great! I love fall so much – apples and pumpkins and more apples and then some apples. MY favorite sweet/treat/eat? I really love those candy corn flavored Dotz but I can’t find any anywhere this year
I love making chocolate covered pretzels with spider webs on them! What a fun giveaway!!
These look so yummy and fun! I love anything baked and pumpkin!
Really cute! Love your blog!
I have to say the new caramel apple milky way is my new favorite candy!
I LOVE Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins SO much better than a regular reese’s!
I like to make anything with pumpkin! And love anything candy corn!
I love making homemade pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread!! My favorite halloween treat would be candy corn or reese pumpkins.
I make my own Reese’s PB pumpkins!
I love making Halloween colored (black, orange, purple) sugar cookies topped with bright green sprinkles. They’re always a hit – tasty and cute!
A graveyard cake.
These look great!!! I am making these tomorrow!!!
May be boring, but I love dipping apples into caramel! So delicious!!
I can’t pick one. But something with almond joy!
fave thing to make for halloween is homemade butterfinger bars!
I don’t make Halloween treats very often, but I recently made some delicious pumpkin spice cookies that would be fun to decorate for Halloween.
I don’t make Halloween treats- but thinking about PB truffles!!
candy corn is a weakness for me. in all forms and flavors. I’m in trouble!
I love to make butterscotch pumpkin cookies!!!
I made apple spice cupcakes yesterday that would easily be transformed into a halloween treat with the right decoration!
Harry Potter style butterbeer!
These look so good, I love candy corn. mmm
I have always like to make and eat popcorn balls.
Mmm! These look like a fun yummy treat for any Halloween party.
Halloween funfetti cake!
i love candy apples & anything pumpkin’y i.e. pumpkin bars, pumkin cookies…
Homemade Pumpkin bread!!
I love to make marshmallow pops – jumbo marshmallows dipped in chocolate and decorated. They are fun and easy and the kids love them. I might have to try a candy corn version now!
Pumpkin spice cookies!
All Halloween treats are my fav!! I can’t choose, luv the spooky kit!!
My little brothers are in love with pumpkin pie…it seems like I make at least one a week
cute and very creative
The sad truth is that I am dying to get my hands on that wire rack. I am so over using my stove burners to cool off my desserts. PS. Great cupcakes and cake pops! Yum x 1000!
My favorite is anything with candy corn and these are so cute!
I love making cake pops! I haven’t had a chance to do any Halloween themed yet (I started January this year), so I’m super excited!
I love love love to make pumpkin cupcakes. yum.
I love your idea of topping a cupcake with a cakepop!
My favorite treat are those yummy candy corn pumpkins!
My favorite is Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Pumpkins
*Thanks* for the giveaway!
I love to eat the halloween oreos.
Pumpkin Bread!
Caramel apples are my favorite thing to make for Halloween
My favorite is pumpkin bread!
One of my favorite Halloween treats to make is popcorn balls!
My daughter and a few of her friends love candy corn and I look forward to making some of your creative candy corn goodies.
Candy corn decorated sugar cookies served with some witch’s brew ( dry ice and rootbeer).
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I love Snickers for Halloween!
Caramel apples!
I love making caramel corn!
I love to make caramel corn or halloween chex mix
I like baking with all of the different candies that come out this time of year!
Love candy corn. Always have. In fact just purchased a candy corn candle!
I have a church halloween party next week and this is perfect to make. Thanks!
I love anything pumpkin. Candy corn, also. Especially all the treats themed after candy corn!
CARAMEL apples
I don’t really have a favorite Halloween treat but I like anything with candy corn!
I love to bake pumpkin spice whoopie pies with cream cheese frosting in the middle!!
I love making dirt cups.
I love baking and decorating Halloween cupcakes. And my two lil fartblossoms love to help, as well!
Thank you!
My favorite is pumpkin bread and pie!
I recently made pumpkin ale cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for my husband – and he loved them! They’re my favorite thing to make now because he loves them so much!
Pumpkin bread is my favorite thing to make at Halloween
My fovorite sweet for this season is Caramel Apples
Those whoopie pies look so good!!
Chocolate fudge
Reese’s pumpkins!
OMG I love it all!! I pray I win
I like to make cut out sugar cookies and decorate them for Halloween. These cupcakes are so cute! I can’t wait to make them!
Your candy corn cupcakes are adorable. Swooning!!!!
Wow! Thanks for the give-away! Love them! Beautiful cake pops!
I love all chocolate and indulge at Halloween!
My fave things to eat is Candy Corn!!
I got a bunch of 8 yr olds (one baseball team and one soccer team) that will love these!
I love Candy Corn….
My favorite is those Reese’s pumpkin shaped peanut butter. Love love! I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin flavored things, but I also enjoy making a batch of brownies and a batch of pumpkin bread, swirling the batters together and baking. Yum
I love candy corn and dry roasted peanuts mixed together. You get salty, sweet, crunchy, chewy…so yummy!!!
My favorite halloween dessert would be Pumpkin Spice cupcakes and Marshmallow Pumpkin Pops for my kids!
I like to bake halloween decorated cookies
I like making Halloween cupcakes
I love making Pumpkin Whoopie Pies!!
I love candy corn and candy pumpkins! captainliss40(at)gmail(dot)com
For Halloween I like getting creative with Rice Krispie treats!
Ooo!! What a fun idea to put cake balls ON TOP of a cupcake! GENIUS!! Def a must try!
My favorite treat to make during halloween is spooky chocolate cookies with white ghosts on top.
Those cake pops are adorable! I must make them!!
I love making graveyard brownies. My mom and I have made them almost ever year since I was a kid.
Love Halloween colors, so fun!! Thinking cake pops will be on my to-do list this Halloween!
love candy corn colored stuff, and any sweet with pumpkin! thanks for hosting–always love the sweets you come up with!
We love to decorate sugar cookies! The kids love being creative and then sharing the cookies with friends and family.
I <3 Candy Corn and cake balls!
We like to make oreo truffle eyeballs every year! Love those fun cupcakes girl!!!
So cute and they look delicious too!
I love caramel/chocolate apples in the fall, but I don’t get to make them as often as I like. The biggest item on our list is decorated sugar cookies.
love it
Love the graham cracker idea for the busy mom! You have given me some great ideas!
I love to make creative treats to share with friends and family!
I love all of these
I love love love Halloween and your ideas have given me inspiration for future parties!
Halloween iced sugar cookies!
These look yummy!
My daycare kids really liked the Frankenstein Pudding cups we made today for lunch and the Halloween Crunch Munch
These look awesome. Candy Corn has been my favorite part of fall since I was little!
Pumpkin anything!
Candy corn, cupcakes, and cake balls! Oh my! Now I just need Starbucks to come out with a Candy Corn Coffee and my life will be complete.
candy apples
My favorite Halloween treat is a nice big old Kit Kat!!!!!!
Anything with pumpkin! Yum!
I will try these with a candy corn in the center of the cake ball.
I love to make skeleton and mummy cookies cut out with gingerbread boy cookie cutters!
These are super cute cupcakes! I love candy corn, so these cupcakes are perfect for me. I might make them for a Halloween bake sale.
I love to make caramel apples!
I absolutely love cake pops and candy corn! What a perfect combination you give the best giveaways!! Hope to be able to share this on my blog as well!!
Love Candy Corn and I want to make the candy corn cupcakes they look delish
Pumpkin fluff…it’s my favorite fall treat.
Thanks for this giveaway! Love the easy treats on your blog!
My favorite is ANYTHING pumpkin…bars, cookies, bread, muffins, dip, etc!
Candy corn is my daughters favorite so I think she would love these!!
What cute items! They would make adorable Halloween treats!!
I love candy corn every halloween!!! your recipes are awesome, they are the best version of candy corn i ever seen. I am going to make ur candy corn pops, and krispies and oreos (if i can ever find them, the candy corn oreos are very rare!)
I hope to win some goodies, i love cake pops and treats to melt (no bake!)!!!!
I love baking cookies and decorating them for Halloween.
You have such cute ideas!
Love candy corn so much, I dressed my son up for Halloween one year as a candy corn. Everybody loved it!
Perfect idea for my kids Halloween party!!
awesome giveaways : )
Love all your fantastic halloween ideas! This year is the first that I’ll have multiple kids in school so I guess I’ll need to step up my halloween baking for all those room parties!
I lose the candy corn cake pop cupcakes – can’t wait to make some for the family
Thanks for always sharing such wonderful recipes!
A cake pop on top of a cupcake…yay! LOL I love it these are awesome. I like baking but with this site I’m really starting to like it more!
Sugar overload! So cute!
I love the Candy Corn cupcakes!
My favorite sweet to make and eat is anything pumpkin.
I love candy corn
we love halloween sugar cookie cutouts. we are also doing brownie covered halloween oreos. (the brownie covered oreos are from Picky Palate).
I like to make chocolate covered pretzel sticks. I have several different molds I use and they always turn out nice.
Love to eat pumpkin anything…pancakes, waffles, cake, muffins, bread…
I am a big fan of candy corn!! just plain delish!
i need the cooling rack. i’ve been using an upturned muffin tin!
Mellowcreme pumpkins! I always stock up the day after Halloween so I can enjoy them throughout the year. I don’t know if it’s just me, but not all of them taste the same.
Anything that involves chocolate and peanut butter makes me happy at Halloween time…ok…so any time really
I love candy corn
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I love candy corn & use Halloween as an excuse to add them to my brownies!
I would love to win this. I really enjoy making and decorating cakes and things…just don’t have a lot of the supplies that i need.
I love to make cupcakes with icing that looks like brains. It looks so cool!
I always make dirt cups each year and decorate it like a graveyard. So simple and delicious!
I love candy corn and caramel apples!
I am a huge believer in anything pumpkin this time of year, but these cake pop cupcakes look adorable! I’m going to have to add them to my list of things to make!
My favorite sweet to make for Halloween are sugar cookies cut into Halloween shapes with cookie cutters & decorated with colored frosting! Fun, easy, & a Halloween tradition for us!
I would so love to win. These cake pops look super yummy.
Caramel popcorn!
Pumpkin cheesecake!
My fav is rice crispy treats. I dye the marshmallow fun colors and then shape them.
I would so love to win this!
These look like so much fun! I think you could take it a step further by pushing the candy corn down into the cake pop ball and leave the yellow part out and use blue or green frosting to draw on a pupil of the eye and then some black lashes to make it look like a giant eyeball!
I love to make Franken-Krispies!
Halloween is my all time favorite !! Thats why i got married on Halloween … The cake pops are cute !!
Love the cupcakes. May have to try them!
Oh my gosh! Halloween baking is the best! i am so excited for it~
I like to make “gross” halloween foods- things that look disgusting and spooky, but taste delicious. This is pretty ironic because i’m very visual, and I can’t eat anything that looks weird- honestly i can’t even use blue toothpaste because it just grosses me out to put something that color in my mouth. But for halloween, bring on the brains and eyeballs and severed fingers =]
Cool giveaway. Hope I win.
I love to make anything with pumpkin in it for fall!
candy apples! I like making a different flavor each year!
Would loveee to win this!
Very Spooky!
I like making cupcakes. This year I’m doing neon green and purple with cute fondant accents.
My favorite sweet to eat is Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins. Just the right ratio of peanut butter to chocolate.
I love to make a graveyard cake
Would love to win this great giveaway. I could use the worms in my popcorn balls that I am making with marshmellows. Thanks
I love candy corn mixed with peanuts! MMM!!!
These look absolutely delicious!!
I made some Halloween chocolate covered pretzels for my hubbys work buddies!
Love the colors of candy corn… even more beautiful in a cupcake!
I could have tons of fun with my little gingersnap baking up all kinds of goodies if I won this!!!
I make a pumpkin layer cake with cream cheese frosting… so delish! I also love to indulge in a caramel apple or 2 around this time of year!
How fun is this giveaway! I can’t wait to win so I can bake extra special treats for my school, for my son’s Halloween party at school and for our Halloween party with friends!
So Cute!! I love it!!!
I love to make caramel apples!
My favorite halloween sweet is candy corn!!!
Looks wonderful
I would love to try these out
Wow!! So neat!! I LOVE candy corn!!
I love making spooky cupcakes!
I my favorite sweets during Halloween has to be Caramel Apples!
My favorite Halloween treat are Reeses Peanut Butter Pumpkins!
We love to make ghost cake pops. They turn out adorable and my daughter’s teachers love them!
These cupcakes look outstanding!
I love making halloween themed cupcakes for my family!!
I love popcorn balls and candy corn!!
I am for sure a candy corn girl! As a child, though, we always got cartons of orange drink from one of the houses, and so I really like that at Halloween, too!
I would love to use some of these items to make a treat for an upcoming pumpkin carving party.
Love making diff variations of apples! Decorated, caramel dipped, etc.
My favorite halloween treat is candy corn rice krispie treats!
Love your site for ideas!!
i like to make popcorn balls with candy corn in them
I love Indian corn the best. Original candy corn is pretty good too : )
I love old fashioned Popcorn Balls! I seem to only eat them around Halloween.
Love to win this for my daughter’s birthday on 10/30 which is national candy corn day…her favorite candy!
I love what you bake. it inspires me to bake more. Thanks
I love candy corn mixed with anything salty to kind of balance out the sweet.
Rice Crispies Treats with candy corn.
I love candy apples
Ive been wanting to make some apple cider glazed donuts this fall!
I like to make caramel corn and sprinkle it with Halloween sprinkles. Thanks!
I LOVE caramel apples this time of year!
I like making Halloween themed frosted sugar cookies!
Mmm.
Awesome Halloween ideas.
I love rice krispie treats and caramel apples
I like Snickers Bars and Caramel Apples
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I love all the Halloween goodies!!!!
Chocolate and pumpkin cupcakes
This is too cute! Halloween is my favorite time to make fun treats.
This has to be be one of my most favorite sites for Facebook and your blog. I love being the Grandma who has all the cool ideas (from you) for all the holidays. I also drive a school bus and love giving things to my bus students with ideas from you. Thanks for all your help making me the COOLEST!!!!
This is so adorable! I love all of the ideas and thank you for providing the opportunity for this giveaway!
I love Candy Corn. It is so addictive!
Love making pumpkin cheesecake!
I love buying up candy corn on clearance after Halloween so that I have a generous supply.
Spooky cupcakes or candy apples.
I love making all kinds of treats, but my favorite Halloween treat is honestly Baby Ruths. LOL It’s the only time I eat them. My kids all know to save me at least one!
We just love making some halloween cupcakes, the halloween graveyard cake and a jello brain
I love candy corn!
My favorite sweet treat would probably be cookies and cream ice cream, or anything that has to do with oreos!
I love caramel apples, popcorn balls, and pumpkin cookies! Thanks for the giveaway!
Carmel Apples
I love the peanut butter kisses!
Pumpkin pie!
I just love all your wonderful ideas