These delicious Halloween Spider Cupcakes are made with yummy homemade chocolate frosting and cute candy eyes. Have the kids help you decorate the top. Yum!
Halloween Spider Cupcakes
This recipe is for the chocolate fans out there! Celebrate Halloween with delectable and scary Spider Cupcakes! The frosting itself is the most delicious thing ever so save the recipe to make another batch for Thanksgiving (without the eyes of course).
If you are hosting a party or attending a Pot Luck, take these Spider Cupcakes with you, I promise they will be a hit with adults and children everywhere.
I used a spider mold for these but you can also use some black licorice for the creepy crawly legs. My spiders had 3 eyes but your child can help you decorate them any way they’d like.
Halloween is one of my favorite Holidays for baking, you can have so much making delicious and weird concoctions.
I can’t sleep at night because my mind is running wild with great ideas to make. There is just so much to create: spiders, witches, blood, monsters, jack-o-lanterns. Colors, patterns, flavors, you, name it.
But for flavors, I love simple earth chocolate and vanilla. Adding too much candy, and too much food coloring can ruin your taste buds.
To make your Spider Cupcakes simply make cupcakes using any box mix. Try using cute cupcake liners or black ones so they can look creepy.
Next, make the frosting using the recipe below). Frost your cupcakes using a spatula or a butter knife and decorate them with the eyes and legs.
My daughters LOVE the frosting and decorating part. Each one made their version of spiders and the results were really cute. I couldn’t take a picture because of course, they ate them all.
I hope you try this recipe at home and let me know how it turned out.
Halloween Spider Cupcakes
Ingredients
For Cupcakes
- 1 box Cake Mix
- 3 Eggs
- 1/3 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1/4 cup Milk
For Chocolate Frosting
- 1 stick Unsalted Butter softened
- 1/3 cup Vegetable Shortening
- 2/3 cup Cocoa Powder
- 2 3/4 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 tablespoon Milk or more
- Black Twizzlers for the legs
- Googly Eyes
Instructions
For Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix using a whisk or electric mixer
- Pour mixture into cupcake liners
- Bake for 15-20 or until browned on top
- Let them cool completely before icing
For Chocolate Frosting
- In a bowl, mix, together sugar and butter
- Add cocoa powder, shortening, and vanilla. Lastly, add the milk. If frosting is too stiff add a little more milk.
Assembly
- Spread icing over cooled cupcakes
- Add the eye candies on top
- Add the Twizzlers to the sides
- Enjoy!
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Thanks for sharing Tiffany, very funny! I particularly like the monster eggs!
thank you Veronique!!