Description
Celebrate Halloween with these spooky spider cupcakes made from your favorite chocolate cake recipe. Decorated with orange, white, and black frosting, candy eyeballs, and mini chocolate sandwich cookies, these creepy-crawly treats are perfect for festive parties and are easy to make with simple decorating steps.
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- Your favorite chocolate cake mix or recipe (enough for 12 cupcakes)
For the Frosting and Decoration
- White frosting (enough to cover cupcakes)
- Orange frosting (for spider bodies and legs)
- Black frosting (for spider legs)
- Candy eyeballs (12 pieces)
- Mini chocolate sandwich cookies (12 pieces)
- Cornstarch (for smoothing frosting dots)
Equipment
- Cupcake pan
- Cupcake liners (12)
- Cooling rack
- Spatula
- Decorating brush
Instructions
- Make chocolate cupcakes. Prepare and bake your favorite chocolate cake mix or recipe according to the instructions, filling cupcake liners placed in a cupcake pan. Once baked, remove from oven and place cupcakes on a cooling rack to cool completely before decorating.
- Frost cupcakes. Using a round piping tip, pipe white frosting evenly on top of each cooled cupcake. Use a spatula to smooth the frosting to create a clean base for decoration.
- Make spider’s body. With orange frosting, pipe a small circle roughly the size of a half dollar coin on top of the white frosting. This will serve as the spider’s body.
- Make spider’s head. Pipe a dot of frosting onto each mini chocolate sandwich cookie, then attach two candy eyeballs to the cookie to form the spider’s head. Carefully lean the decorated cookie against the orange body on each cupcake.
- Make spider’s legs. Using both black and orange frosting, pipe alternating colored dots extending from the orange body in four legs on each side. Dip a decorating brush into cornstarch and lightly smooth out each dot to give the legs a neat finish.
Notes
- These easy spider cupcakes are perfect for any Halloween party and impress with their festive look.
- Use ready-made frosting pouches and store-bought candy eyeballs and cookies for quick decorating.
- Store cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week, but decorated cupcakes are best eaten within a day or two.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 32g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
