You Can Eat an Evil Mr. Cupcake From Five Nights at Freddy's for HHN 2025

Five Nights at Freddy’s is coming to Halloween Horror Nights 2025, and at Universal Orlando, you can eat an Evil Mr. Cupcake before the event has even begun.

FNAF Evil Mr. Cupcake – $9

Vanilla cupcake with buttercream frosting, cherry filling, and fondant decoration

A hand holds an Evil Mr. Cupcake, inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's, with big eyes, sharp teeth, and a lit candle on top.

This little guy wasn’t available yesterday when we had the Mr. Cupcake Macaron, Chica Chocolate Cookie, and Freddy Fazbear Caramel Apple. But when we spotted them this morning, we had to grab one.

Hand holding a Mr. Cupcake with red icing and a yellow candle in a retro-style diner with red and white decor.

The Mr. Cupcake cupcake is cute in a creepy sort of way. Of all of the fondant-covered treats we’ve had this week (and it’s been a lot — Universal could lay off the fondant, please), this was the best, which isn’t saying much. It had a little bit of sweetness, rather than the blandness of the other offerings, and it was softer.

A hand holds an Evil Mr. Cupcake with a jagged mouth and flame candle, inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's.

It also really, really smells like Play-Doh. It’s so off putting, we almost didn’t want to try it, because it looks like salt dough and smells like salt dough, and we were not in the mood to eat salt dough. Luckily, it doesn’t taste like much at all, and definitely not like Play-Doh.

A half-eaten cupcake with white and pink frosting, like Evil Mr. Cupcake from Five Nights at Freddy's, sits on a napkin.

Beneath the fondant is a heap of vanilla buttercream, which was decent. It was sweet, but not overly so, and pairs well with the cherry filling. The filling is as if they smashed maraschino cherries and piped them into the middle, and it’s the best part of the cupcake.

It also has a really neat, bloody, fleshy appearance when you cut the cupcake in half, which we found fitting, since when Mr. Cupcake turns evil, he starts eating people.

(And yeah, maybe saying the cupcake looks like it has flesh inside it doesn’t sound appealing, but hey. It’s Halloween Horror Nights. We’re gonna eat grosser-looking stuff than this.)

A hand holds an Evil Mr. Cupcake with pink frosting and strawberry filling in a retro-style diner.

Unfortunately, neither the buttercream nor the cherries can save the dry, crumbly vanilla cake. It’s bland and disappointing. The cupcake makes for a cool photo, but we wouldn’t spend $9 on this again. Instead, we’d go for the Mel’s Die-in Tart (stay tuned for that review!).

Rating out of 7: 4

You can find the Evil Mr. Cupcake at various confectionery locations around the resort, including Universal Sweets at Universal Studios Florida, and Island Market and Export Candy Shoppe at Islands of Adventure.

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