Make these fun Halloween spider web cupcakes with chocolate spiders this year for Halloween! Just follow this easy recipe tutorial.
I consider Halloween to be the big kick-off to the holiday season — a.k.a. baking season.
This means spending lots of time in the kitchen baking up delicious Halloween treats for my family. The great thing about baking with family is that it doesn’t only end with a delicious treat, but it also can create wonderful memories that last a lifetime.
Although we love no-bake Halloween treats like these Rice Krispie Treat Spiders and this Candy Corn Fudge!
Spider Web Cupcakes
Today I am sharing a great Halloween cupcake recipe to make with your kids this Halloween.
These spider web cupcakes are the perfect baked treat for Halloween school parties, house parties, or even for Halloween bake sales.
But no worries if you don’t have any kids. Adults will totally get a kick out of these creepy Halloween cupcakes as well. I mean who doesn’t want to eat spider webs?
Looking for more spider-themed treats? Check out these easy spider brownie bites.
The cupcakes themselves are easy to make. Start with cupcakes made with your favorite cupcake recipe, or with boxed cake mix.
Then the real magic comes from how we will decorate the cupcakes.
Halloween Spiderweb Cupcake Ingredients & Supplies
First, let’s take a look at what you will need to make this spider dessert.
- 6-8 prepared chocolate cupcakes, unfrosted
- 1 tub chocolate frosting
- White Candy Melts
- Black Candy Melts
- Chocolate M&M candies
- Black sprinkling sugar
White Candy Melts
Black Candy MeltsCandy Melts Melting PotBlack Sugar SparklesBright Cupcake Liners
How to Make Spiderweb Cupcakes
Frost cupcakes with the chocolate frosting.
Melt white candy melts per package directions and put in a small plastic bag with the tip cut off for piping (or use these). Pipe spider webs onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Make the webs a bit larger than the cupcake tops. Allow to cool completely and set.
Repeat with black candy melts (melt & pipe) to create the spiders. I started with a dime-sized dot of chocolate and then added 4 legs on each side.
Sprinkle the black sugar over the spiders and place a chocolate candy in the center.
Once spider and web are completely set, peel them off the paper.
Place a web on each cupcake, and set a spider on top of each web.
>> Related: Witch Hat Cupcakes
Get the Kids Involved
If you want to encourage creativity in your children, have the kids help decorate the cupcakes.
You could simply set up a variety of candies to give the children more options to choose from. That way they can choose the candies they want to use to decorate their cupcake to make it their own.
Who says a spider can’t be hot pink or lime green? You could also switch it up by giving the kids different colors of candy melts to make their spider webs.
Variations
Feel free to play around with the flavors of the cupcakes themselves and the frosting. Choose gourmet flavors or something simple. For example, pair vanilla frosting with strawberry cake and then use pink chocolate melts to make a pretty pink spider web cupcakes.
Basically, feel free to think of the recipe as a guideline to create your own spider cupcakes that are truly unique.
I hope that you enjoy this fun and delicious Halloween treat.
If you are looking for more spooky Halloween desserts you will love these Frankenstein Jolly Rancher Suckers, Mummy Rice Krispie Treats, Bloodshot Monster Eyeball Doughnuts, and Ghost Doughnuts.
Spiderweb Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 12 prepared chocolate cupcakes unfrosted
- 1 tub chocolate frosting
- White Candy Melts
- Black Candy Melts
- M&M candies
- Black sprinkling sugar
Instructions
- Frost cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
- Melt white candy melts per package directions and put in a small plastic bag for piping.
- Pipe spider webs onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Make the webs a bit larger than the cupcake tops. Allow to dry.
- Melt black candy melts per package directions and put in a small plastic bag for piping.
- On a parchment lined baking sheet, pipe small spiders. I started with a dime sized dot of chocolate, and then added 4 legs on each side.
- Sprinkle black sugar over the spiders and place a chocolate candy in the center. Allow to dry.
- Once spider and web are completely set, peel them off the paper. Place a spider web on each cupcake, and set a spider on top of each web.
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by a third party and intended to serve as an estimate only. The accuracy of nutritional information is not guaranteed.
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Those look terrific! That’s very creative that you formed the webs before the chocolate dried, at first glance I wasn’t sure how you got them so solid.
These are so cute, and I think I could do this with my daughter following your instructions! Thanks for making it look easy!
What a spooky yet scrumptious idea! These cupcakes are totally perfect for Halloween. I love that you added sugar to the spider legs for texture too.
So usually I look at tutorials and am like – urm 50 ingredients there’s no way I could pull that off but this looks super easy and they’re really fun to make. We’re going to be checking out Charlotte’s Webb for homeschool soon and these would make a perfect snack for us to create together!
Love these! I want to give them a try. I know my kids would absolutely love them. They look easy yet adorable at the same time.
You are incredibly talented! Those tiny little spider webs with spiders on them are amazing!
OH these are so fun! My son just got the shivers looking at them, lol.
These are so cute! I love the idea. Thanks for the recipe/instructions.
We are always looking for different treats to prepare the grand kids…and me!
These look amazing!! I never would have thought to use melts like that, what a fun idea for cupcakes.