Description
Spooky and fun Halloween Spider Cupcakes featuring rich chocolate cupcakes topped with black frosting spiderwebs and playful toy spider rings. Perfect for Halloween parties and celebrations.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- 24 baked chocolate cupcakes (preferably in black cupcake liners)
Frosting
- 3 cups chocolate frosting
- 1 cup white frosting
- Black food coloring (enough to color chocolate frosting black)
Decorations
- 24 toy spider rings
Instructions
- Prepare Cupcakes: Fill your cupcake liners a little less than two-thirds full with chocolate batter to ensure flat tops after baking. Bake according to your cupcake recipe instructions and allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
- Color Frosting: Mix black food coloring into the chocolate frosting until it reaches a deep black color suitable for the spiderweb design.
- Frost Cupcakes: Spread a thin layer of the black frosting evenly over the top of each cooled cupcake to create a dark base for the spiderweb.
- Create Spiderweb: Using white frosting and a small frosting tip or a ziplock bag with a small corner cut, pipe two white circles on each cupcake to form eyes with a white dot in the center of each circle.
- Draw Web Lines: Starting from the central dot of each eye, use a toothpick to drag straight lines outward toward the edge of the cupcake, repeating to form a spiderweb effect across the surface.
- Decorate with Spiders: Place one toy spider ring on top of each cupcake to complete the Halloween spider look.
Notes
- Use black cupcake liners to enhance the spooky Halloween theme.
- If you don’t have a small frosting tip, carefully cut a very small tip off a ziplock bag to pipe the white frosting.
- Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting to prevent melting.
- Use gel-based food coloring for richer black frosting without thinning it.
- Toy spider rings can be found at party stores or online.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 350 kcal
- Sugar: 28 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 18 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 42 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg
