Description
Create spooky and festive Spider Web Cupcakes perfect for Halloween parties. These fun cupcakes feature a smooth orange frosting base decorated with an intricate black icing spider web design, topped with a creepy plastic spider for that ultimate eerie effect.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- 24 baked and cooled cupcakes
Frosting
- 2 cups orange frosting
- black decorator icing (for spider web design)
Decorations
- 24 black plastic spiders
- skewer or toothpick (for decorating)
Instructions
- Frost the Cupcakes: Place about a tablespoon of orange frosting in the center of each cupcake. Hold the knife or spatula still and rotate the cupcake to spread the frosting smoothly over the top, creating an even and clean surface.
- Create the Spider Web Base: Snip off the tip of the black decorator icing tube. Make a dot in the center of each frosted cupcake, then pipe three concentric circles around the dot, resembling a bullseye pattern.
- Draw the Web Lines: Using a skewer or toothpick, drag straight lines outward from the center dot through the circles, making 5 or 6 lines radiating like spokes of a wheel. This forms the spider web design.
- Add Spider Decorations: Place one black plastic spider on top of each cupcake as a finishing spooky touch to complete the design.
Notes
- Use your favorite cake mix to bake the cupcakes or bake from scratch as desired.
- The orange frosting provides a bright background that makes the black spider web pop visually.
- Be gentle while dragging lines with the skewer to avoid mixing colors or breaking the frosting.
- Black decorator icing can be purchased ready-made or homemade for better control over piping.
- These cupcakes are ideal for Halloween or any creepy-themed celebration.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 232 kcal
- Sugar: 27 g
- Sodium: 175 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 37 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 1 mg
