Halloween Spider Cupcakes

 We made these cute Halloween cupcakes for a party this weekend.  I got the idea from some cookies on Allrecipes.  You're supposed to use Lindt truffles cut in half, but I couldn't find any, so I used some German chocolates that were, funnily enough, wrapped up to look like spiders.  So I had my son unwrap all the spider chocolates to then use to decorate as spiders on these cupcakes.  Lol. 

You just place the chocolates on top of frosted cupcakes (before the frosting sets).  Then use a bit of frosting to stick the candy eyes on, and use chocolate frosting to form the legs.  Pipe it from a sandwich bag with a tiny corner cut off.

Halloween Spider Cupcakes
idea from Allrecipes

cupcakes
orange frosting
Round chocolates (or Lindt balls truffles cut in half)
candy eyeballs
chocolate frosting (a small amount; or use Nutella)

1.  Frost the cupcakes orange.  Place a chocolate in the middle of each one.  Use a dab of frosting to secure two candy eyeballs to each chocolate.  Use chocolate frosting to make legs.  To pipe legs, spoon a small amount of chocolate frosting (or Nutella) into a ziploc sandwich bag and snip off one small corner.  Pipe 4 legs on each side. 

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