Description
These Halloween Spider Cupcakes are a spooky and fun treat featuring rich chocolate cupcakes topped with black chocolate frosting decorated like spiderwebs and finished with playful toy spider rings. Perfect for Halloween parties and festive gatherings.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- 24 baked chocolate cupcakes (preferably in black cupcake liners)
Frosting and Decoration
- 3 cups chocolate frosting
- 1 cup white frosting
- black food coloring
- 24 toy spider rings
Instructions
- Prepare the Cupcakes: Fill your cupcake liners a little less than two-thirds full with chocolate cupcake batter to ensure flat tops after baking. Bake according to your chocolate cupcake recipe and allow them to cool completely before frosting.
- Color and Frost: Mix black food coloring into the chocolate frosting to turn it black. Spread a thin layer of this black frosting evenly on the top of each cooled cupcake.
- Create Spiderweb Eyes: Using a small frosting tip or a ziplock bag with a corner snipped, pipe two white circles on each cupcake to resemble eyes. Add a small dot of black or chocolate frosting in the center of each white circle to complete the eyes.
- Make the Spiderweb: Starting from the center dot of the eye, use a toothpick to drag straight lines outward to the edges of the cupcake, repeating the process around the cupcake to simulate a spiderweb pattern.
- Add the Toy Spiders: Place one toy spider ring on top of each cupcake as a festive decoration to complete the Halloween theme.
Notes
- Use black cupcake liners to enhance the spooky appearance.
- Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting to prevent melting or sliding.
- If you do not have black food coloring, mix blue and red food colorings with a little green to achieve a near-black shade.
- Use a toothpick or a skewer to make spiderweb lines carefully for the best effect.
- Toy spider rings can be found at party supply stores or online for a fun and safe decoration.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 250 kcal
- Sugar: 22 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 32 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg
