Spider Web and Pumpkin Patch Cup Cakes

Everyone that has children are concerned for their health when it comes to all the candy and safety while trick-or-treating. More and more people are having Halloween parties at their homes, and inviting family and neighbors.

Here are some very simple directions to make two spider cup cakes. They are easy to share, require no cutting before serving, keeping germs down.

Spider and Web Cup Cakes

When you are done making your cup cakes, you will need

either brown colored icing or chocolate flavored icing

Black icing

White icing

Icing bags

Writing tips

Vine tips

Hair or grass tip

small flower tip

If you are going to make individual spiders, you will need paper plates.

For individual spiders, make a spider web on each plate by drawing 8 lines out from the center to the edge of the plate in equal intervals using the black icing with a vine tip. Then connect the lines by swooping from one line to the other, doing about 4 times around. Remove the cup cake wrapper and place cup cake in the center of the plate. Ice the sides of the bottom part of the cup cake, then using the hair or grass tip, finish the top and the fuller part of the cup cake, making the spider look like he has hair. Then use white icing in either a vine tip or writing tip, give the spider white eyes about the size of a pencil, then place a drop of black icing in the center of each eye with the writing tip. Also place a mouth on the spider in black below the eyes. When finished with this, using brown icing with the small flower tip, start midway down the spiders side, you will make 8 legs, coming down the side and a short ways out from the bottom on the cardboard or plate.

Do this with each individual spider.