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Friday, January 27, 2012

Spider Man Cupcakes



So, I am not into cupcakes as much as my other desserts. If you want to see some amazing cupcakes, my cousin Dan and friend Jalynne with Some Sweet Cakes on Facebook makes great cakes. Anyway, this was my creative take on cupcakes for a boy who sure loves that Spider Man:

1 box of chocolate cake mix (or whatever their favorite flavor is)
Ingredients according to cake mix
Red or blue cupcake wrappers
1 cup melted milk chocolate chips
2 cans white frosting
red food coloring
blue food coloring

Prepare cupcakes as directed on the box using the red or blue cupcake wrappers. Cover cupcakes with a towel for about 20 minutes or until they have cooled (this is my trick to keep a moist cupcake). Mix frosting in two different bowls with red food coloring and blue food coloring. It may take quite a few drops of dye to achieve the right blue and red. If you dont use enough food coloring, the colors may come out pastel which is not what you want. Take a small amount of red frosting and cover half of the top of the cupcake with red and the other half with blue or you can do blue frosting in the middle and red around. Just be creative and have fun. Once the cupcakes are frosted, melt the chocolate. If you do not have piping bags, you can cut a tiny hole in the corner of a ziplock and place the chocolate in there to use as a piping bag. Make sure the hole for the piping is very small to acheive the right type of webbing. Start off by squeezing a little out on a napkin to practice. I usually start by making a big "x" on the cupcake and adding more lines to make a star shape. You may add lines going the other way inside the lines to create the web look. Dont worry if it doesnt look perfect. Another cute idea is taking the chocolate piping bag and making a large filled in circle on the middle of the cupcake and making little legs coming off of the circle. Once all cupcakes are decorated, place in the fridge to allow the chocolate to harden. Enjoy!

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