Yay for Halloween! I love Halloween! I love dressing up, I love trick-or-treating, I love Jack-O-Lanterns, I love CHOCOLATES and I love HALLOWEEN SPIDER CUPCAKES!!!
Aren’t they super duper adorable? Well, as their creator, I would have to say DUH~!! 😀
I brought them to work and they were quickly gobbled up! I myself found them delicious and irresistibly cute!
You can use any chocolate cupcake recipe for these cupcakes. I prefer using Devil’s Food recipe since it results in a darker shade! I’m submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #13: Enjoy Cupcakes! hosted by Min of Min’s Blog.
Ingredients: Yields approximately 20 medium spider cupcakes
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
- 2 cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup water
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
- red licorice
- 20 white chocolate chips
- 20 black chocolate chips
- 6 chocolate chip cookies (crushed)
- chocolate frosting 1/4 of that recipe is more than enough!!
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 20 cupcake liners.
- In a small pan melt the butter or margarine with the unsweetened chocolate. Set aside to cool slightly.
- Cream together the sugar and the eggs until light in colour. Add the chocolate mixture to the eggs and temper mixture by beating well (so you don’t end up with scrambled eggs!) Add 1 cup boiled water (still warm) and blend well. Mixture will be very liquid.
- Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add this mixture to the chocolate mixture and blend well.
- Mix together the vinegar and the milk and stir into the chocolate batter. Pour into prepared pan(s).
- Bake at 350 degrees for 22-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Grab a cupcake
Oh boy, I’m having way too much fun here…
Oh! And guess what I dressed up as this year for Halloween???
Dun Dun Dun…
I was….
A BAKER!!! ❤ ❤
Wow! I’ve spent 5 years of Halloween with my dearest Traces! 😀 Love ya long time babes!
This year with Junie too!! 🙂
Sweet Samsations 
Sammie baby, your cupcakes looks really cute, but the legs look like whiskers. And also you look really good in your halloween costume, i like the dress!
Thank you baby.. HOW SWEET OF YOU.. hahaha.. No waaaay! My baby spiders don’t look like cats. :p
I very much enjoyed making the spiders with you BB! They were very cute, not to mention delicious! It sounds sadistic, but it was sort of fun eating them piece by piece….lol.
Hehe. What a sadistic BB you are!! Also you created poor Gimpy who can’t crawl properly 😦
that’s very cute!!
Those look like a lot of hard work!! Very cool! 😛
omg! soo cuuute!!!
Yvonne: thanks dearie!! Btw we need to meet up soon!!
Kim: hehe. Thanks Kim! Does take a while but they’re actually quite simple!
Jan: lol. Thanks Jan! They’re quite different from your real-life creepy crawlies eh? 😛 tee hee
i don’t know why but the first thing that came to my mind was ELMO. i think it’s the eyes and the licorice! hahha my brain’s just wired to associate big eyes and the color with elmo but wow sammie! these are really great. how do you get the choc chip cookie crumbs though? they come pre-made or you like.. crush up the “whole” ones?
tee hee! I actually made some Elmo cupcakes that I will post up soon!! 😀 Yeah the cookie crumbs are just from this package of cookies I got for free when I signed up for Master Card. hehe.. I took 6 and crushed them up!
How can u bear to eat these cute cupcakes?!!! Haha I’d put them in a museum or smth. And I like ur halloween costume concept ^o^
hehe.. Thank you sayang! 🙂 They did taste quite yummy I’d say!