Halloween Spider Cupcakes
Delight Halloween party guests with a spooky batch of Halloween spider cupcakes – topped with an Oreo cookie and candy eyes! How to decorate spider cupcakes for a creepy, crawly crave-ably cute Halloween treat.
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 24 cupcakes of choice (I prepared 1 box vanilla cake mix)
- 1 tub white or orange frosting* (or 1 of each!)
- 1 tub chocolate frosting (or 1 tube brown or black decorating gel)
- 12 Oreo sandwich cookies, separated
- 48 candy eyes regular/medium-sized
Decorating Equipment
- 24 cupcake liners
- 2-3 decorating bags
- offset spatula
- small round piping tip #4
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Bake cupcakes in cupcake liners, according to package directions. (Or bake homemade cupcakes of choice.) Allow to cool completely.
Frosting
- Spread frosting evenly onto the cupcakes—either using a decorating bag, or straight from the tub using an offset spatula.
- To use a decorating bag, add white or orange frosting into a decorating bag (no metal tip needed). Cut off the pointed end of the bag so you can squeeze out the frosting. (Use 2 separate decorating bags if you want to use 2 different colors on your cupcakes!)
- Squeeze frosting onto cupcakes, then spread evenly with an offset spatula.
Spider Toppers
- Separate Oreo cookies from the crème, so you’ve got 24individual cookies.
- Add chocolate icing into a decorating bag with a small round icing tip (I used Wilton tip #4). Squeeze 2 dots of icing onto an Oreo cookie as ‘glue,’ then stick on 2 candy eyes to make your spider face. (Or simply spread icing onto back of candy eyes and stick them onto the Oreo.)
Spider Legs & Assembly
- Use bag of chocolate icing (or decorating gel) to draw 8 spider legs onto each cupcake, starting from the outside and moving inward. (This will look a bit like drawing cat whiskers. Don’t worry about making it perfect—the Oreo will cover the center!)
- Place an Oreo spider face in the center of each cupcake to finish assembly. Repeat until all spider cupcakes are assembled.