Oreo Spider Cupcakes
These Oreo Spider Cupcakes are a must-have this Halloween. Great fun to bake for a party or to give as a trick-or-treat gift. Use your favourite boxed cake mix or store-bought cupcakes for a last-minute dessert.
Oreo Spider Cupcakes.
I love making special treats for Halloween and these Oreo spider cupcakes do not disappoint.
They’re incredibly easy to make and super cute to boot. All you need are a few simple ingredients to turn a frosted cupcake into a not-so-spooky spider cookie cupcake.
And do you know what makes them even better? Not only can you use them on top of cupcakes you could use them on brownies, and cookies and even have a whole bunch of them decorating a large cake or pie.
Easy Halloween Spider Cupcakes.
You can make them from scratch using your favourite cupcake recipe, use a boxed cake mix like in this recipe or even store-bought cupcakes if you’re really short on time.
Use homemade frosting or ready-made. Not sure about using a piping bag? Buy some of those handy blank icing tubes for the legs.
Or why not use regular Oreos, double-stuffed or even Halloween Oreos for some extra colour.
Ingredients.
1 package white cake mix (any brand)
3 egg whites
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 drop gel food colouring
3 cups Vanilla buttercream
25 Oreo cookies
Black decorator icing
Small candy eyeballs
Instructions.
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Add your cupcake ingredients and mix in a large bowl. Add a drop of gel food colouring to your batter.
3. Divide the mixture between 24 cupcake liners.
4. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
5. Allow to cool completely. I recommend letting them cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing them and letting them finish cooling on a wire rack.
6. While the cupcakes are cooling make your buttercream frosting. I recommend making 2-3 cups.
7. Fit a piping bag or ziplock back with a !M or 2D tip. Add your buttercream and pipe a circle around the top of the cupcake.
Note: If you’re unsure about using a piping bag you can spread the frosting onto the cupcake instead. A piped circle does give a prettier finish though.
8. Place an Oreo in the centre of the cupcake on top of the buttercream.
9. Pipe on the legs with black icing.
10. Add a small amount of icing or edible glue to the back of each candy eye and stick to the top of the Oreo cookie.
If you’re looking to expand your Halloween treat lineup, try making Witch Hat Cupcakes with chocolate or these Nutter Butter Mummy Cupcakes.
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