INGREDIENTS
Cupcakes
1
container (16 oz) vanilla frosting
1/4
teaspoon orange concentrated paste food color
24
unfrosted cupcakes (purchased or baked from a mix)
Spider Webs
1
tube (0.68 oz) black decorating gel (not food color)
8
clean plastic spider finger rings
Eyeballs
2
tablespoons vanilla frosting (from 16-oz container)
8
candy-coated chocolate pieces
1
tube (0.68 oz) black decorating gel (not food color)
1
tube (0.68 oz) red decorating gel (not food color)
Graves
1
tube (0.68 oz) black decorating gel (not food color)
8
oval creme-filled peanut butter sandwich cookies
1/4
cup chocolate cookie crumbs
DIRECTIONS
1
Place 3 tablespoons of the frosting in small bowl; set aside. Stir orange food color into remaining frosting in container until well blended and no streaks remain. Frost cupcakes.
2
To make Spider Web Cupcakes, use black decorating gel to draw spiral covering on top of each frosted cupcake. Drag toothpick through spiral from center out, creating a web. Press 1 spider ring onto each "web."
3
To make Eyeball Cupcakes, drop 1/2 teaspoon vanilla frosting from small bowl onto each frosted cupcake. Lightly press 1 candy-coated chocolate piece in center of each. Use black decorating gel for pupil and red decorating gel to draw red squiggly veins radiating around edge of white frosting.
4
To make Grave Cupcakes, write "epitaphs" on one end of each cookie using black decorating gel. Press cookies into cupcakes to form "gravestones." Sprinkle cookie crumbs around each "gravestone"; add candy pumpkin to one side.
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