Halloween Cupcakes

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I made these back in October, they were very easy to make! Used basic double chocolate cupcake mix...

150 g unsalted butter (I always use butter it gives better results than marg)

150g caster sugar

150g self raising flour

25g cocoa powder

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

100g chocolate chips

1. Cream butter and sugar

2. Add beaten eggs

3. Add flour and cocoa powder and choc chips and vanilla essence

4 Beat til smooth then bake at 180C for 15-20 mins

Then when they were cool I made some basic buttercream (150g unsalted butter, 250g icing sugar, beat together then add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 2 teaspoons hot water and beat til smooth)

I spread a spoonful of strawberry jam on top (to stop crumbs getting into the icing) then piped the buttercream on top and decorated

Spiders

pipe a thin line of black icing in a spiral (morrisons has little piping tubes which are brill!) and use a cocktail stick to go from centre to edge to make web. Roll 1 small ball and 1 tiny ball from black fondant icing to make a spider

Pumpkins

Use a circular cutter to cut circle from orange ready made icing (I mixed red and yellow icing to make orange) then use a cocktail stick to score curves down the circle (to look like a pumpkin). I cut eyes and mouths out of black ready to roll icing and piped leaves on top with a morrisons green icing tube

Bats

free hand cut a bat from black ready to roll icing an put on top