These cute-and-creepy cupcakes will inSPIDER you to get creative. Pipe chocolate ganache onto vanilla frosting to spin the webs, and stick a spider topper into each cupcake. Go one step further and set them out on a tray covered in cobwebs and plastic spiders. Then sit back and watch as your Halloween party guests are lured into your webs.
What You’ll Need
- Spider Template
- Cardstock
- Scissors
- Toothpicks
- Tape
- Vanilla-Frosted Cupcakes
- Chocolate Ganache
- Piping Bag or Plastic Sandwich Bag
- Fake Cobwebs (optional)
- Plastic Spiders (optional)
Step 1 Fill a piping bag (or a sandwich bag with one tiny corner snipped off as shown here) with ganache. Pipe a circle around the edge of cupcake.
Step 2 Continue piping concentric circles onto cupcake until you have at least three. Finish with a dot of ganache in center.
Step 3 Starting from the center dot of each cupcake, dip the tip of a toothpick into the icing and drag out to the edge, repeating until you make a spiderweb pattern. Make sure to wipe off toothpick between each stroke.
Step 4 Download Spider Template, print onto cardstock, and cut out. Tape spiders to toothpicks and stick into your web-covered cupcakes.
Step 5 (Optional) Once you’ve finished with the cupcakes, arrange your arachnids into a dramatic display. Stretch faux cobwebs over a serving tray or cake stand, decorate with plastic spiders, and set the cupcakes on top.
