Spider Cupcakes

Ingredients:

For the cupcakes:

• Flour, 112 gr

• Cocoa powder, 50 gr

• Baking powder, 1/4 tsp

• Salt, 1/4 tsp

• Unsalted butter (room temp), 115 gr

• Sugar, 115 gr

• Brown sugar, 50 gr

• Egg, 1

• Egg yolk, 1

• Vanilla extract, 1/2 tsp

• Sour cream, 120 ml

• Bitter sweet chocolate (melted), 60 gr

• Strong coffee, 1/4 cup

• M & M's (what is left from the decoration)

For the decoration:

• M&M's , 72

• Nutella (for frosting the cupcakes)

• Chocolate sprinkles

• Large Marshmallows, 24 (halved)

• Licorice laces (in black, we used also color ones, cut in fourths)

Preparation:

For the cupcakes:

Prepare a muffin pan with muffin cups.

Mix together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and the salt.

In a large bowl beat the butter at medium speed until soft and creamy.

Add the sugars and beat for about 2 minutes, until it's blended into the butter, add the egg, then the yolk.

Beat in the vanilla and add 1/2 of the dry ingredients, mixing only until they disapear.

Add the sour cream and coffee, mixing until incorporated, then mix in the remaining dry ingredients.

Add the melted chocolate, and the M & M's then devide the batter among the muffin molds.

Bake for around 20 minutes at 180 degrees celcius or until the tops of the cakes are dry and a knife inserted into their centres

comes out clean.

Cool the muffins to room temperature before glazing.

For the decoration:

Frost the cupcakes with the Nutella, then coat the tops with the chocolate sprinkles.

With help of the nutella (using it like a kind of glue) attach the M & M's to the marshmallows.

Again with some nutella attach the marshmallows to the cupcake (also attach the nose in the same way).

Using a toothpick poke holes in the sides of the cupcakes.

Insert the legs (licorice, 4 in each side).