Although I am not very supportive of these snacks with so much decoration, Halloween It is a good time to make exceptions and that is why I have to admit that I had a great time preparing these hairy spider cupcakes.
For its elaboration, we need to prepare some classic muffins first and then decorate them with the technique that I am going to explain. The result is fun and of course, - despite its scary appearance - it is rich and can be a good orption for a children's snack made around Halloween.
Ingredients for 6 spiders
- 6 homemade or purchased muffins, 100 gr of cream cheese, 100 gr of butter, 100 gr of glass sugar, food coloring
- For decoration, chopsticks, scissors and markers or an elaborate pack of muffin decoration for Halloween, sold in specialized stores
How to make hairy spider cupcakes
For the elaboration of these hairy spiders that frighten us so much, we need prepare a butter bitumen to cover our cupcakes. To make it firm and endure well, we have prepared it using a mixture of Philadelphia-type cream cheese and butter at room temperature, well beaten until they were like a cream.
Little by little we are adding the sugar glass getting an ointment of sweet and quite consistent flavor. When we have our cream ready, we add 10 drops of food coloring. I have used blue which is what I had at home, but if you do them with black dye, your spiders will be even more scary ...
After stirring and mixing the color well, we pass the cream to a disposable pastry bag. If you don't have one, you can also use one freezer bag cutting a corner. With a curly mouthpiece, we are ready to decorate the muffins or cupcakes. It is not difficult, we simply support the mouthpiece on the cupcake and while we squeeze the sleeve a little, we quickly climb and stretch, thus forming the spider hairs.
We finish the decoration with some sticks on which the legs and sugar eyes are glued to complete the effect of spiders. These products are sold in specialized stores but can be replaced by others Homemade as a craft to prepare with our children.
So that they are well preserved until the moment of eating them, it is convenient to put the cupcakes of hairy spiders in the fridge, but remember it or when you open the door to get some milk or yogurt you can get a good scare.
Processing time | 20 minutes Difficulty | Half
Tasting
As usually happens with this type of pastries, our Halloween recipe, hairy spider cupcakes It is better for snack than for breakfast. Remove the cupcakes from the refrigerator ten minutes before eating them so that the butter in the cover is not so hard and enjoy!
