Spider Cupcake

This create the lengthy legs and sweet smirk.eight-legged cupcake cutie sports a friendly grin for any festive occasion. Licorice pieces help.

1. Cover a cupcake with chocolate icing and sprinkles.

2. Attach sourball halves to circle mints using icing.

3. Place the eyes and a chocolate-candy nose onto the cupcake.

4. Form a smile with a small piece of red licorice.

5. Use eight long slivers of black licorice for legs and two short slivers for pinchers; cut into points and insert into cupcake.

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Six Feet Under Cupcake

This coconut-topped Halloween cupcake may look more than a little wicked, but with the witch stuck in the batter and no cauldron in sight, we promise this treat will only taste sweet.

To make the cupcake, follow these steps:

1. Use black marzipan to shape the witch's boots.

2. Stick yellow mini candy-coated chocolates on each boot for the buckles using frosting to secure.

3. Mold each boot around a peppermint stick to create the legs.

4. Top the cupcake with coconut dyed using green food coloring.

5. Insert peppermint sticks into the cupcake.

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Monster Cupcakes

These monstrous Halloween cupcakes -- made with frosting, gumdrops, and fruit leather -- are the perfect treat to serve holiday guests, or for anyone who gets a kick out of cute monsters.

Ingredients:

2   16-ounce cans creamy white frosting
Brown and leaf green paste food coloring or purple paste food coloring*
Black, orange, and purple paste food coloring
12  2-1/2-inch cupcakes** in paper bake cups (any flavor)
6 large black gumdrops, halved crosswise
Toasted coconut
Assorted black candies, such as licorice laces and candy-coated sunflower kernels
Large marshmallows
Large and/or small gumdrops
White small oval mints, such as Tic Tacs (optional)
Rolled fruit leather
Candy circus peanuts, halved crosswise (optional)

Directions:

1. Divide frosting into five portions; tint with food coloring as follows: Tint one portion mossy green (using brown and leaf green food colorings). Tint a second portion black.*** Tint a third portion dark orange. Tint a fourth portion purple. Use the remaining white frosting for attaching monster parts.

2. Cut the rounded tops off cupcakes. Spread cut surfaces of cupcakes with some of the black frosting. Place a large gumdrop half in the center on top of each cupcake.

3. Spread green, orange, and purple frostings over cupcake tops. Place frosted tops over gumdrop halves on cupcakes, tipping each top back slightly to form a mouth.

4. Decorate cupcakes using toasted coconut and monster parts as follows: For eyes, attach a small piece of black candy to a slice of marshmallow; insert a small piece of black licorice into bottom of marshmallow slice. Press into cupcake. (Or make eyes from gumdrop pieces and small black candies and/or marshmallow halves, gumdrop pieces, and small black candies.) For teeth, cut marshmallows into pieces or use white small oval mints. For tongues, lay a fruit leather roll flat; fold and press together to make four layers. Use scissors to cut out tongue shapes. Attach candy circus peanut pieces to the fronts of cupcakes for feet. Makes 12 (2-1/2-inch) cupcakes.

*Tip: Look for special shades of paste food coloring in the cake decorating departments of hobby and crafts stores.
**Tip: If desired, tint cupcake batter bright green or purple. Use about 1/4 teaspoon paste food coloring for every 2 cups of batter.
***Tip: To achieve a rich black color without using excessive black food coloring, stir 1 to 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder into the frosting before adding the food coloring.

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