Instructions: To make a cupcake "cemetery," spread devils food cupcakes with chocolate ganache icing. Dip the top of each frosted cupcake in crushed chocolate wafers to create the look of dirt, then insert shortbread-cookie "tombstones", piped with scary messages like "Boo!" or "R.I.P." in royal icing, in the centers.

Top more devils-food cupcakes with chocolate ganache and chocolate-wafer "dirt," make a hole in the center of each with your finger, and position half a Gummi worm to look like its slithering out of the hole.

Enlist your kids to draw scary Halloween figures, or copy Halloween images out of books. Cut the pictures out, tape them to cocktail straws (you can cut the straws shorter, if necessary), and insert them into cupcakes youve decorated with orange-tinted cream-cheese frosting.

Decorate more devils-food cupcakes with orange cream-cheese frosting, then spell out words or phrases like "Happy Halloween" by forming one to three letters out of thin black licorice on the top of each cupcake.

Serve your cupcakes on a tray covered with candy corn or spun-sugar "cobwebs."

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