Easy Spider web Halloween Cupcakes. These easy Halloween cupcakes are perfect for any Halloween Party dessert! With a quick and simple trick you can add a little spooky to your Halloween party fun making these Spider web cupcakes.
Spider web Cupcakes
Easy Halloween Dessert
Are you looking to add a little spooky touch to your Halloween night well these Spider web cupcakes are a sweet way to do that. I promise you that it is SUPER easy to do too! If you are wanting to use this fun and easy edible spiderweb trick on cakes, brownies, cookies and more you will follow the same steps as decorating the cupcake.
Easy is seriously the best thing for me. I don’t have time to get crazy fancy, but thankfully these spider web cupcakes only take a few extra minutes from making a normal cupcake recipe and I end up with an awesome spooky Halloween cupcake.
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Halloween Cupcakes for Kids
I tend to stick with vanilla cupcakes when I am making cupcakes for kids halloween parties, however there are lots of different cupcake flavors that you can use.
If you are looking for more cupcake flavors be sure to check out the other tasty cupcake recipes we have shared.
- Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
- Peanut butter cupcakes
- chocolate cupcakes
- blackberry cupcakes
- chocolate chip cupcakes
- strawberry cupcakes
- Angel Food cupcakes
For the buttercream frosting I use my go to buttercream frosting, which is a vanilla buttercream. You can use a different flavor buttercream, but you want to use one that is white. You will be dying a portion of the buttercream black to make the spider web, and you want the spiderweb to be seen on top of the cupcake. If you are looking for another white frosting to use check these out.
Decorating Halloween Cupcakes
If you have never decorated cupcakes, be sure to check out these posts to help you. I promise you that it is super easy to have bakery fancy cupcakes made at home in your kitchen! You are going to want to know How to get a perfect cupcake swirl and the Easy Way to Fill a pastry bag.
Spider Web Cupcakes Supplies
- Large round pastry tip
- Small round pastry tip
- 2 Pastry Bags
- Tooth pick or a corn on the cob pick
- White buttercream
- Cupcakes
- Cupcake liners
Vanilla Cupcakes Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
Easy Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 2 pounds Confectioners sugar
- 1 cup Shortening
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 tablespoons hot water
How to Make homemade Vanilla Cupcakes
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Line the cupcake pans with your choose of cupcake wrappers. When making these Halloween cupcakes I like to use a spider web cupcake liner. I don’t always have them on hand. but when I do they are the ones I grab to use.
Place your self-rising flour, cake flour, and sugar in the bowl of the mixer. Mix them together for a minute or two until they are well combined on low speed.
Cut the butter into tablespoon pieces. Slowly add your butter into the flour mixture one piece at a time continue mixing until you have reached the texture of sand.
Pour half of the milk into the flour mixture and mix just until the milk is incorporated.
Use your rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the remaining milk and the vanilla to the batter and mix until combined.
Slowly add in one egg at a time to the cake batter, making sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next egg.
Scoop the batter into the prepared cupcake pan, filling them 3/4 of the way full.
Bake for 10 minutes then rotate the cake pans so the pan that was on the top rack is now on the bottom and the pan that was on the bottom is now on the top rack. Continue to bake for another 10-13 minute until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cupcake.
Transfer the cupcakes to a cooling rack until they have reached room temperature.
How to make Buttercream Frosting
I use my kitchenAid mixer when making buttercream frosting, but if you do not have a stand mixer then you can use a hand mixer. Either one will do the job, but I prefer using the stand mixer.
In the mixer’s bowl add the butter and shortening. Turn the mixer to medium speed and mix until the butter and shortening are well combined.
Once well combined, turn the mixer speed to low and add in the confectioners sugar a little bit at a time and keep the mixer mixing. Add the confectioners sugar until all of the sugar is incorporated into the butter/shortening mixture.
Once you have added all the powdered sugar in to your mixture, add in the vanilla extract and then the hot water.
Turn the mixer up to medium-high speed and continue mixing for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
Set the frosting aside once finished until it is time to decorate the spider web cupcakes.
How to Decorate Spider Web Cupcakes For Halloween
After you have made your frosting and the cupcakes are cooled it is time to put these awesome easy spider web cupcakes together.
Separate the frosting into two bowls, you will want 3/4 cup to 1 cup worth the frosting set aside. Add black gel food coloring to the smaller amount of frosting.
Prep the pastry bags, in one pastry bag place the large round pastry tip and fill it with the white buttercream. In the second pastry bag add the small pastry tip and fill it with the black buttercream frosting.
Using the white buttercream swirl a small frosting swirl on each cupcake.
Use the black buttercream and draw circles on top of the white buttercream frosting on each cupcake.
Using a tooth pick start in the center and drag the tooth pick out to the edge of the cupcake. Repeat around the whole cupcake seven to eight times to form a spider web. Do this for each cupcake until they all look like spiderwebs.
Be sure to check out these other easy Halloween cupcakes!
If you are low carb or keto, you can also enjoy these fun halloween candy corn cupcakes. You will want to use either sugar free vanilla cupcakes or keto chocolate cupcakes and sugar-free buttercream frosting.
Spider web cupcakes
Equipment
- Large round pastry tip
- Small round pastry tip
- 2 Pastry Bags
- Tooth pick
Ingredients
Vanilla Cupcakes Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
Easy Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 2 pounds Confectioners sugar
- 1 cup Shortening
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 tablespoons hot water
Instructions
How to Make homemade Vanilla Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line the cupcake pans with your choose of cupcake wrappers. When making these Halloween cupcakes I like to use a spider web cupcake liner. I don't always have them on hand. but when I do they are the ones I grab to use.
- Place your self-rising flour, cake flour, and sugar in the bowl of the mixer. Mix them together for a minute or two until they are well combined on low speed.
- Cut the butter into tablespoon pieces. Slowly add your butter into the flour mixture one piece at a time continue mixing until you have reached the texture of sand.
- Pour half of the milk into the flour mixture and mix just until the milk is incorporated.
- Use your rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the remaining milk and the vanilla to the batter and mix until combined.
- Slowly add in one egg at a time to the cake batter, making sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next egg.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared cupcake pan, filling them 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake for 10 minutes then rotate the cake pans so the pan that was on the top rack is now on the bottom and the pan that was on the bottom is now on the top rack. Continue to bake for another 10-13 minute until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cupcake.
- Transfer the cupcakes to a cooling rack until they have reached room temperature.
How to make Buttercream Frosting
- I use my kitchenAid mixer when making buttercream frosting, but if you do not have a stand mixer then you can use a hand mixer. Either one will do the job, but I prefer using the stand mixer.
- In the mixer’s bowl add the butter and shortening. Turn the mixer to medium speed and mix until the butter and shortening are well combined.
- Once well combined, turn the mixer speed to low and add in the confectioners sugar a little bit at a time and keep the mixer mixing. Add the confectioners sugar until all of the sugar is incorporated into the butter/shortening mixture.
- Once you have added all the powdered sugar in to your mixture, add in the vanilla extract and then the hot water.
- Turn the mixer up to medium-high speed and continue mixing for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Set the frosting aside once finished until it is time to decorate the spider web cupcakes.
How to Decorate Spider Web Cupcakes For Halloween
- After you have made your frosting and the cupcakes are cooled it is time to put these awesome easy spider web cupcakes together.
- Separate the frosting into two bowls, you will want 3/4 cup to 1 cup worth the frosting set aside. Add black gel food coloring to the smaller amount of frosting.
- Prep the pastry bags, in one pastry bag place the large round pastry tip and fill it with the white buttercream. In the second pastry bag add the small pastry tip and fill it with the black buttercream frosting.
- Using the white buttercream swirl a small frosting swirl on each cupcake.
- Use the black buttercream and draw circles on top of the white buttercream frosting on each cupcake.
- Using a tooth pick start in the center and drag the tooth pick out to the edge of the cupcake. Repeat around the whole cupcake seven to eight times to form a spider web. Do this for each cupcake until they all look like spiderwebs.
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