Gluten-Free Ghost Cupcakes (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

These cute and spooky Gluten-Free Ghost Cupcakes are perfect for Halloween! These super easy cupcakes are vegan, allergy-free, and perfect for kids! Made with a simple black chocolate cupcake base and dairy-free vanilla buttercream frosting. Whether you need a unique Halloween party treat or a simple non-candy dessert, these are a must!

Are you ready for a CUTE (and spooky) overload? Just in time for Halloween, these ghost cupcakes are THE thing you need to bake! Halloween may be all about "the candy", but a homemade non-candy and allergy-free treat is way more fun, right? With celiac disease and food allergies, we need out non-candy Teal Pumpkin goodies and having an edible sweet treat to enjoy that's allergen-free is even better! (Plus, what's cuter than these little ghosts!?)

Perfect Allergy-Free Halloween Treat

The Teal Pumpkin Project is an effort by the food allergy community to signal to trick-or-treaters that "this house" is food allergy-friendly and provides non-food toys and trinkets in addition to or lew of candy. But if you want to throw an allergy-friendly Halloween party, the addition of a free-from treat is a must! These adorably spooky cupcakes are:

• Gluten-Free
• Vegan
• Allergy-free (Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free, Peanut-Free, Wheat-Free, Sesame-Free, Corn-Free, Coconut-Free)
• Low in Sugar

Black Chocolate Cupcakes

The cupcake base for these Halloween Ghosts is a simple chocolate cupcake with BLACK food coloring! Extra dark and spooky, but still super easy to make!

Ingredients you need:

• Gluten-Free Baking Flour
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• Baking Powder
• Granulated Sweetener
• Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer
• Pure Vanilla Extract
• Black Food Coloring
• Neutral Flavored Oil
• Unsweetened Non-Dairy Milk

Black Food Coloring

You have a few options for the coloring. I'm all about natural food dyes, but if that's not a necessity for you, have no fear!

• You can use plain old black food colorings.
• You can use natural powdered black coloring.
• You can ditch the dye and use BLACK cocoa powder. You would use this in place of the normal cocoa powder called for in the recipe.
• You can try blending a bunch of natural colors together (I did not try this, but...)
• You can use a small amount of activated charcoal.

Dairy-Free Vanilla Buttercream

What makes these ghosts, is the spooky swirl of white frosting! All you need to do is whip up a batch of my classic vegan vanilla buttercream frosting, nothing fancy!

• Stick of Vegan/Soy-Free Butter
• Powdered Sweetener
• Touch of Water or Non-Dairy Milk
• Pure Vanilla Extract

Piping the Frosting

Since you want big swirls for the frosting, you can fill a plastic Ziplock bag with the prepared frosting, snip the corner and apply the frosting. I taped 0.6" circle tip to the end of the piping bag for better guidance.

Decorating the Cupcakes

But wait, there's one last thing! The EYES! I saw this pack of Wilton Candy Eyeballs at Walmart, which actually inspired this entire recipe. The large candy eyes are "a great way to put a face on a cupcake" as the package says. Yes, indeed and these eyes are what makes these cupcakes so darn cute! The pack comes with 24 eyes so you have enough for a dozen cupcakes (but this recipe only yields 10 cupcakes). You want the large size, not the small size.

Additional Baking Tips and Storage Instructions

• I always like to make my cupcakes ahead of time, the day before, and then frosting them once they are 100% cool. Simply store them in an airtight container at room temperature once they've cooled from the oven on a wire rack (Pro Tip: place a napkin or paper towel in the container to prevent moisture.)
• Once you frost the cupcakes, you'll need to store the cupcakes in the fridge in a closed container to prevent the frosting from spoiling.
• Make sure you stick the eyes in the frosting while the frosting is still "wet" and hasn't dried and set.
• Before serving the cupcakes, bring them to room temperature for best taste!
• You can store the finished cupcakes in the fridge for up to 1 week. You can freeze unfrosted cupcakes for up to 6 months. Thaw them in the fridge and then frost and decorate as instructed.

Gluten-Free Ghost Cupcakes Recipe

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Now that you have a recipe for perfect gluten-free ghost cupcakes for Halloween, that hardest decision you'll need to make is...Are these too cute to eat or...?

More Halloween Treats To Try:

• 4-Ingredient Homemade Mounds Bars
• Easy Gluten-Free Chocolate Covered Pretzels
• Pumpkin Spice Roasted Chickpeas
• Healthy Peanut Butter Cup Muddy Buddies
• Mini Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins

So tell me:

+ What was your favorite Halloween candy to get when you went trick-or-treating? Junious Mints, Mounds/Almond Joys, Mini Utz Halloween Pretzel Packs

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