Holidays often bring out a desire to bake in theme, and Halloween is no exception. As it is a festival of blood and gore, creative bakers reflect ghoulish themes in their concoctions, such cupcakes with spooky Halloween imagery.

This selection of Halloween cupcakes is totally and utterly awesome, including everything from spiders to witches and stops off at a Frankenstein and Mummy along the way.

Take these desserts as your inspiration and go out and bake your Halloween heart out.

I think anything I make will be horrifying as I can’t bake for fun, instead I am going to buy some from an awesome London cupcake bakery called Crumbs and Doilies.