Cupcakes with Spiderwebs

to celebrate Autumn

October 31, 2020 • With chocolate Autumn Cupcakes Halloween

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250g soft butter
250g fine sugar
3 free-range organic eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
250g self-raising flour
4 tablespoons of milk
100g Tony's dark chocolate
100g Tony's white chocolate

Today's cupcakes serve two purposes. We make them spooky for Halloween and for Autumn, pretty with real leaves. The cobwebs seem difficult to make, but they are very easy. We keep the cupcakes natural vanilla (because of the mini monsters preference) but if you have the time and feel like it, you can fill them with any buttercream.

How to make the Chocolate Spiderweb Cupcakes

Preheat the oven to 180°C

Place 12 cases in a cupcake baking tin.

Put the butter and sugar in the mixer.

Beat until the mixture looks pale & creamy.

Beat in the eggs, one by one.

Add the vanilla and mix it in.

Get a rubber spatula.

Sieve the flour on the butter mixture.

Sieve the self raising flour in three parts on top of the butter mixture

Gently fold in the flour.

Fold the milk into the batter.

Until all is combined.

Fill the cases up to ¾.

Bake the cupcakes for 25 minutes until golden brown. Insert a skewer to check, if it comes out clean, the cupcakes are done.

Allow the cakes to cool 5 minutes in the tin.

Cool completely on a wire rack.

Meanwhile chop the chocolate in pieces.

How to make the cobbwebs on the cupcakes

Melt the chocolate au bain marie.

Spoon some chocolate on the cupcake.

Spread the chocolate using a spoon.

We work on three cupcakes at a time.

Pipe contrasting circles on the cupcakes.

Place the pricker in the inner circle.

Pull it outward, through the circles.

Allow the chocolate to harden in the fridge.

Look what pretty autumn cupcakes you've made!

Happy Autumn / Happy Halloween!