Hairy Spider Cakes

We make spider cakes every Halloween. This year I thought I would try making them cupcake size. I think they turned out pretty cute. I made little cake pedestals for each of them and we delivered them to friends.

What you need:

-12 regular cupcakes baked without paper cups

-12 mini cupcakes baked without paper cups

-chocolate frosting or any frosting tinted brown, grey or black

-a ziplock bag to pipe frosting

-black pipe cleaners

-mini gum drops (8 for each spider)

-M&M's

First: you take a one cupcake and one mini cake and place them by each other

Then you do a base coat with the frosting

Next you fill a ziplock bag with frosting, cut a corner and pipe frosting up and down around cupcakes. You can't mess this up. They look great messy.

Lastly cut pipe cleaners in thirds and stick a gum drop on the end. Bend the cleaners in half and stick the other end into the cupcake. Add two M&M's for the eyes.

Super easy!

For the cake pedestal, you need:

Plastic bread plate

paper cup

Halloween paper

glue gun

I just glued a strip of paper around the edge and then glued the bottom the cup to bottom of plate. A fun way to deliver a treat.

My kids even loved helping!