Blogger Made With Pink made these adorable cupcake spiders, using the chocolate cupcake recipe from the cookbook Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery, and you can too! She writes:
These are super easy to make. You'll either need some chocolate cookie crumbs or some black sugar for these. I like prefer the texture of sugar, so that's what I used. The US has a huge selection of cake decorating products, so black sugar shouldn't be that hard to find. Here in the UK we don't have as big a selection, so I had to make my own black sugar. It's really easy to do, and very economical. To make your own coloured sugars you'll need some zip lock sandwich bags, sugar and liquid food colouring. Start out by putting 1/2 cup (225gr) of sugar into a zip lock bag, and then add in a few drops of liquid black colouring. Seal up the bag, and start kneading the sugar and food colouring together until they're combined. The sugar should be even in colour, and there shouldn't be any patches of food colouring left. The sugar should be damp, but not really wet at the stage. Let the sugar dry out for an hour or so, and then add in a bit more colouring and repeat the same process. Do this until you get the colour your wanting, making sure that you let the sugar dry fully each time before adding more colouring. I used white sugar, so had to repeat the steps above a few times. You may want to try using brown sugar that's been left out overnight so it looses some of it's moisture.
photo via Flickr
Go to Made With Pink for more photos and instructions, plus the chocolate cupcake recipe.
gummy worm cupcake via Flickr
These are super easy to make. You'll either need some chocolate cookie crumbs or some black sugar for these. I like prefer the texture of sugar, so that's what I used. The US has a huge selection of cake decorating products, so black sugar shouldn't be that hard to find. Here in the UK we don't have as big a selection, so I had to make my own black sugar. It's really easy to do, and very economical. To make your own coloured sugars you'll need some zip lock sandwich bags, sugar and liquid food colouring. Start out by putting 1/2 cup (225gr) of sugar into a zip lock bag, and then add in a few drops of liquid black colouring. Seal up the bag, and start kneading the sugar and food colouring together until they're combined. The sugar should be even in colour, and there shouldn't be any patches of food colouring left. The sugar should be damp, but not really wet at the stage. Let the sugar dry out for an hour or so, and then add in a bit more colouring and repeat the same process. Do this until you get the colour your wanting, making sure that you let the sugar dry fully each time before adding more colouring. I used white sugar, so had to repeat the steps above a few times. You may want to try using brown sugar that's been left out overnight so it looses some of it's moisture.
photo via Flickr
Go to Made With Pink for more photos and instructions, plus the chocolate cupcake recipe.
gummy worm cupcake via Flickr
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