spiderrific cupcakes

This week has been filled with visions of pumpkins, spiders, skulls and All-Things-Halloween.  For his class party, The Son specifically requested spider cupcakes.  We scrolled many, many images on Google and found The Perfect Spider on M&M's website.

All you need are chocolate cupcakes, chocolate frosting, jimmies, runts, marshmallows and black licorice laces, which, by the way, are sticky and fragile, (don't pull them to stretch the legs out!) but do the job fantastically.

For this adventure, much of the fun is getting to the destination.  The Kids had a grand time giving each spider a personality and facial feature.  I believe the sad faces had something to do with short, amputated legs.  Guess who was manning that station?

Spider Cupcakes

chocolate cupcakes
chocolate frosting
chocolate jimmies
48 black or red licorice laces or 12 pinwheels
marshmallows
runts, m&ms, or skittles


Reserve 2 tablespoons frosting in a separate bowl.  Frost each cupcake.  Coat the tops with chocolate jimmies.

Cut each lace into 4 equal pieces (or unroll the pinwheel and cut into eight equal pieces. Then carefully separate the laces.)  Using a toothpick and leaving enough room in the front for the marshmallow eyes, create four holes on each side of each cupcake.  Insert a lace into each hole.

Cut a marshmallow in half.  Using the reserved frosting, attach the two marshmallow pieces to the cupcake.  Dot a candy with frosting and attach it to the marshmallow. Dot another candy and attach as mouth.

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