Check out this Creepy Spider Cupcake Recipe! Super yum! I saw this and just had to have this for my site because I knew that you all would enjoy this as well. It makes 18 cupcakes which is awesome for school parties or your next Halloween or spooky party!
Chocolate Cupcake Ingredients (or you can just buy a chocolate mix):
1 3/4 C flour
2 C sugar
1 C dark cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 C whole milk, room temp
1/2 C oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 C boiling water
Frosting Ingredients:
1 C of unsalted butter, room temp
4 C powder sugar
4 TBSP heavy whipping cream
Orange, purple & black gel food coloring
1 bag of candy spiders
Making cupcakes:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Now line each cupcake tin with paper liners. Start by mixing the flour, sugar, dark cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
In a second bowl add the eggs, whole milk, oil, and vanilla. Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Beat all of the ingredients together for three minutes on medium. After these ingredients are mixed slowly begin to add the boiling water, a little amount at the beginning, stirring as you add, then pour in the remaining boiling water. Your batter may be a little runny but that is okay.
Using a medium ice cream scoop pour the batter into the lined cupcake tins until about 3/4rds filled. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from the oven allowing them to cool for 10 minutes. Finally, remove each cupcake from the pan placing them on a wire rack to completely cool.
Let’s frost:
Cream powder sugar and butter until mixture is light and creamy. If for some reason it doesn’t cream you can add a few drops of heavy whipping cream until it creams.
Test to see if the frosting can form and hold a stiff peak by getting a spoonful of frosting and turning the spoon upside down to see if the frosting stays on the spoon or falls off. If it stays on the spoon, you’re good, if not add more powder sugar 1/4 cup at a time and mix well.
Divide the frosting equally into three bowls. Add several drops of each of the gel food colorings into each of the bowls. One color per bowl. Mix well until the color is thoroughly blended.
Once the frosting is ready, you can place it into a pastry bag with a large tip (we used a 13-inch tip) Scoop one color of your frosting at a time, putting it on one side of the bag. Add the other two colors of frosting to the two other sides of the pastry bag.
Twist the open end of the pastry bag and pushing the frosting to the tip, test to make sure that the colors are mixed together, and frost the cupcake edges inward to the center of the cupcake. Place a candy spider in the center of the frosted cupcake.
Creepy Spider Cupcake Recipe
Ingredients
- Chocolate Cupcake Ingredients or you can just buy a chocolate mix:
- 1 3/4 C flour
- 2 C sugar
- 1 C dark cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 C whole milk room temp
- 1/2 C oil
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 C boiling water
- Frosting Ingredients:
- 1 C of unsalted butter room temp
- 4 C powder sugar
- 4 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- Orange purple & black gel food coloring
- 1 bag of candy spiders
Instructions
- Making cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Now line each cupcake tin with paper liners. Start by mixing the flour, sugar, dark cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
- In a second bowl add the eggs, whole milk, oil, and vanilla. Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Beat all of the ingredients together for three minutes on medium. After these ingredients are mixed slowly begin to add the boiling water, a little amount at the beginning, stirring as you add, then pour in the remaining boiling water. Your batter may be a little runny but that is okay.
- Using a medium ice cream scoop pour the batter into the lined cupcake tins until about 3/4rds filled. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from the oven allowing them to cool for 10 minutes. Finally, remove each cupcake from the pan placing them on a wire rack to completely cool.
- Let’s frost:
- Cream powder sugar and butter until mixture is light and creamy. If for some reason it doesn’t cream you can add a few drops of heavy whipping cream until it creams.
- Test to see if the frosting can form and hold a stiff peak by getting a spoonful of frosting and turning the spoon upside down to see if the frosting stays on the spoon or falls off. If it stays on the spoon, you’re good, if not add more powder sugar 1/4 cup at a time and mix well.
- Divide the frosting equally into three bowls. Add several drops of each of the gel food colorings into each of the bowls. One color per bowl. Mix well until the color is thoroughly blended.
- Once the frosting is ready, you can place it into a pastry bag with a large tip (we used a 13-inch tip) Scoop one color of your frosting at a time, putting it on one side of the bag. Add the other two colors of frosting to the two other sides of the pastry bag.
- Twist the open end of the pastry bag and pushing the frosting to the tip, test to make sure that the colors are mixed together, and frost the cupcake edges inward to the center of the cupcake. Place a candy spider in the center of the frosted cupcake.
While you are making the Creepy Spider Cupcake Recipe, you should check out some of my other recipes like this Bloody Eyeball Cupcake Recipe!
(Creepy Spider Cupcake Recipe) Love this Halloween cupcake recipe for .my three year old grandson and I to make together, he will love them!
These Creepy Spider Cupcakes are so freaky and my son loves doing cupcakes like this and he would love to be creative and make these. Thanks for the recipe!
Neat cupcake they look yummy want some
I’m IMPRESSED BY THE DECORATING THE COLORS OF THE ICING SO PRETTY AND PERFECT HALLOWEEN COLORS!
love these cupcakes, they are adorable!!
These are awesome. I love the tie die look. I could see doing this year round, certainly not just for halloween (maybe minus the eyeballs).
What a great recipe! I’ll give this a try for New Years eve!
I love the colorful icing on these it would be great for kids birthday parties and other occasions too. thanks much
These are creepy, but not to creepy to eat. 🙂
These are some pretty cool looking cupcakes. the kids would love these!
These are so colorful and look really yummy!
Thanks for the tip of the heavy whipping cream in the frosting. I usually just use milk but I like your idea better.
Great idea. I would love to make them next Halloween for my kids and their class.
They are so creepy, but I love that they are colorful! And they look yummy!
They’re pretty cute. But I hate spiders and would not put them on cupcakes.
I am a huge fan of cupcakes, and I think my nephew would love the way these look.
These look so awesome! I love cupcakes! They are one of my favorite desserts! I will definitely have to make these next Halloween. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Wow! these are too awesome! I love them!!! I’m going to have to bookmark your page so I can come back to this on Halloween!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
These look so spooky yet so yummy! Thanks for sharing.
These look awesome i would like to make these for next Halloween for our church’s Halloween gathering
I think these are really cute. I pinned so I can make these this fall!