Halloween Cupcakes : Spiders & Spiderwebs

Easy to make rich dark chocolatey Spider and Spiderweb Halloween Cupcakes, perfect for a Halloween party and fun to make!

I’m not really sure how it became October……but it’s suddenly here.  Heck, it’s actually half over! HA  I thought I better get a move on some Halloween treats before it passes me right by.

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It all started when I stopped at World Market about a month ago.  I just love that store, especially at Halloween!  They have so much fun decor, party supplies, food, and even Halloween wine and beer.

I picked up some cute spider cupcake stands.

So, I baked cupcakes!  Genius, I know right? lol

I mixed up a batch of  Perfect Cupcakes using a mix  ‘recipe’ using a box of  Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge  topped them with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting tinted orange, and Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting.

Let’s Make Spiderweb Cupcakes 

•  spread a little orange frosting (add orange gel color to vanilla frosting)  on top of the cupcakes with an offset spatula.
•  using a tube of Wilton Black Decorator Icing and a #5 Round Icing Tip and coupler, draw 3-4 circles on top of orange frosting
• using a toothpick pull outward from the center black circle to the outer circle to create your cobweb, repeating around the cupcake about six times .

How To Decorate Halloween Boo and Eek Cupcakes

• spread a little orange frosting on top of cupcake with an offset spatula.
• use a tube of Wilton Black Decorator Icing and a#5 Round Icing Tip and coupler, to write the words Boo or Eek

Learn How To Decorate Spider Cupcakes

• spread a little chocolate frosting on top of the cupcake with an offset spatula.
• set cupcake in a small bowl and cover frosting with black sanding sugar (pour loose sugar that falls into the bowl on to next cupcake or back in the container)
• place 2 edible icing eyes on top
• set cupcake in spider cupcake holder.

If you’re feeling extra indulgent, fill a 16″ decorator bag with frosting and using a #7 tip, squeeze a little frosting into each cupcake before decorating.

Also used:

Black cupcake liners

Orange Gel Paste

Enjoy!!

Have you done any Halloween baking yet? if not are I’d love to hear what you are planning on making!

More Halloween Treats you might enjoy:

Halloween Cupcakes with Bats

Hairy Spider Cookies

Spider Web Cookies

Spooky Spider Pancakes

Freaky Fun Food Ideas

Spooktacular Treats for Halloween

Halloween Food Ideas