Starting from the bottom: The shoes are just some plane black shoes I purchased years ago for a school girl costume. I am wearing dark tights underneath pink fishnet stockings. The cup part of the homemade cupcake costume is a large lamp shade I found at a thrift store. I had to saw out the … Read more

We started this Homemade Chocolate Cupcake Costume by looking for a hula hoop to provide the circular shape of the cup, but it’s fall here and no one sells hula hoops. So we headed to Home Depot and my engineer-brained boyfriend constructed two hoops, one slightly smaller than the other, out of plastic plumbing pipe, … Read more

My boyfriend and I love tasty sweets! He asked me to be his girlfriend using edible letters on cupcakes, so this Homemade Cupcake and Baker Costume was a MUST. For the base (the cupcake liner), I safety-pinned an old cylinder laundry hamper until it was about a foot tall. I folded 3 poster boards accordion … Read more

This homemade cupcake Halloween costume design is made of an old lamp shade in the bottom with paper folded like an accordion sewed onto the lamp shade. The pink parts are old grandma’s curtains (braces and tube top), the white tulle and lace is a gigantic skirt made of tulle just pressed upside-down in the … Read more

I choose to be a Homemade Cupcake Costume this year for Halloween. I love how it ended up coming together and was a hit all night. For the bottom, I bought a small round clothes basket. I started by just cutting the bottom out, but I soon realized it kept poking me. I ended up … Read more

If you want to be something short ‘n’ sweet for Halloween, this easy homemade cupcake costume is perfect! All you need: felt of assorted colors (I used pink for the frosting, brown for the cake and cherry stem, red for the cherry, and yellow, blue, and a different pink for the sprinkles), hot glue gun, … Read more

I was trying to think of a costume this year that would be easy and creative. I looked at a few other costumes on this site and modified those ideas with the materials I was able to find at the store. I used a collapsible laundry hamper, tinfoil, Bristol board, quilt batting, and glitter foam … Read more

For this Halloween I wanted a really cute and creative costume! I came to this website and searched the costumes for hours. I rarely eat sweets but many people often tell me how sweet I am.. So I thought to myself, what better costume should I be than something sweet and yummy! So I started … Read more

I used a $2.00 laundry basket that I cut in half for this Homemade Cupcake Costume. I folded 3 sheets of pink poster board and glued them around the edge of the basket. I used a large sheet of quilt polyfill and folded it 4 times to make a thick square. Placed cupcake base in … Read more

Who wants to spend all Halloween weekend in a boring, store-bought, slutty X costume? This year I decided to be a fancy cupcake. I made this Homemade Cupcake DIY Costume from a child’s craft apron, hot pink nylon fabric (about 3 yards), heavy-duty aluminum foil, poster board, jewel/gem stickers, safety pins, fabric glue and ribbon. … Read more

After shopping around for cupcake costumes, I decided to construct my own Homemade Cupcake Costume since 1) I was on a budget, and 2) the few cupcake costumes I’ve seen were only in kids sizes. I searched online for many ideas on where and how to start putting the costume together but in the end, … Read more

This is my Homemade Cupcake Halloween Costume Idea. I waited until the last minute to make it, so it didn’t turn out quite like I thought it would. At first I was a little embarrassed to wear it for the whole party, but I did wear it inside for a little while, then I put … Read more