Description
Create spooky and festive Halloween spider cupcakes using your favorite chocolate cake recipe, decorated with colorful frostings, candy eyeballs, and mini chocolate sandwich cookies for a fun and haunting treat perfect for Halloween parties.
Ingredients
Cake Base
- Your favorite chocolate cake mix or recipe
- Cupcake liners
Frosting & Decoration
- White frosting
- Orange frosting
- Black frosting
- Candy eyeballs
- Mini chocolate sandwich cookies
- Cornstarch (for smoothing)
Tools
- Cupcake pan
- Cooling rack
- Spatula
- Decorating brush
Instructions
- Make chocolate cupcakes. Bake cupcakes according to box or recipe instructions in a preheated oven, then place them on a cooling rack and allow to cool completely before decorating.
- Frost cupcakes. Using a round piping tip, pipe white frosting generously on top of each cooled cupcake and smooth it evenly using a spatula, creating a clean base layer.
- Make spider’s body. Using orange frosting, pipe a small circle roughly the size of a half dollar in the center of each cupcake to represent the spider’s body.
- Make spider’s head. Pipe a small dot of frosting onto a mini chocolate sandwich cookie, then attach candy eyeballs onto the frosting. Place this cookie head leaning against the orange frosting body on each cupcake.
- Make spider’s legs. Use black and orange frosting to pipe alternating colored dots on either side of the spider’s body to create four legs on each side. Dip a decorating brush in cornstarch and gently smooth out each leg dot for a polished finish.
Notes
- To store: Store cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week. For best taste and decoration quality, consume decorated cupcakes within one to two days.
- Use ready-made frosting pouches or homemade frosting for ease and speed in decorating.
- Ensure cupcakes are completely cooled before frosting to prevent melting and sliding of decorations.
- This recipe is great for Halloween parties, designed to be both fun and easy to make with minimal ingredients.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 32g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 25mg
