Halloween Spider Web Cupcakes
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| Ingredients |
| 16 |
Cupcakes - any recipe, we used gingerbread and psychedelic rainbow cupcakes. |
| 1 qty |
butter icing |
| 4 oz (115g) |
dark chocolate |
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licorice strips |
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assorted lollies to decorate spiders (smarties, cachous, mints etc) |
Assorted Lollies
Smarties are round candy coated chocolates.
Cachous are small lolly balls that look like ball bearings.
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| Method |
| 1. |
Decide on color of cake icing. We went with yellow, orange and chocolate. Color the icing accordingly and cover each cake. (see top left photo). |
| 2. |
Arrange cakes on the board you intend to serve on. (We used 16 cakes though you could use any number). |
| 3. |
Position one cake in the middle of the board, then position 5 evenly around this one and then position a row of 10 around the outer edge. |
| 4. |
Cut strips of licorice to go from the middle cake to each outer cake. (see top middle photo) |
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Then cut strips of licorice to form circles around the middle cake - see top middle photo. |
| 6. |
Melt the chocolate (I used the microwave - but be careful not to burn. The chocolate tends to melt but still stay in original shape, so stir every 10 seconds.) |
| 7. |
Carefully spoon the chocolate into the piping bag. |
| 8. |
On a tray covered with baking paper, pipe spider shapes. |
| 9. |
We found it easier to pipe a small round head, then the legs and then add a large body. |
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| 8. |
Use lollies to decorate the spiders. Use the cachous for the eyes and smarties for the bodies. Make 15 spiders and decorate each cupcake with a spider so everyone gets one. |
| Notes |
Makes one spectacular spider-web cake of 15 cupcakes.
These spiders are easy to make.
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