Chocolate Spider Cupcakes

Name: Chocolate Spider Cupcakes
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking soda; 28 grams bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped and melted; 2 Tbsps bourbon; 118 milliliters packed brown sugar; 59 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters ounces cake flour (about; 1 teaspoons cream of tartar; 3 larges egg whites; 2 larges eggs; 12 servings Black food coloring; 177 milliliters granulated sugar; 118 milliliters low-fat buttermilk; 1 teaspoon meringue powder; 237 milliliters powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 79 milliliters unsweetened cocoa; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 Tbsp water

The recipe Chocolate Spider Cupcakes could satisfy your American craving in approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes. This recipe serves 12. One serving contains 272 calories, 4g of protein, and 10g of fat. It works well as an inexpensive dessert. If you have butter, brown sugar, cream of tartar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Halloween will be even more special with this recipe.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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To prepare cupcakes, weigh or lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife.

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Cupcakes

All Purpose Flour

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Measuring Cup

Knife

Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and 1/8 teaspoon salt, stirring with a whisk.

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Baking Soda

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Place 3/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well combined (about 3 minutes).

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Butter

Sugar

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Blender

Bowl

Add eggs and vanilla, beating well.

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Vanilla

Egg

Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to egg mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Fold in chocolate. Spoon batter into 12 muffin cups lined with muffin cup liners.

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Buttermilk

Chocolate

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Muffin Liners

Bake at 350 for 18 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs clinging.

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Oven

Remove from pan; cool completely on a wire rack.

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Wire Rack

Frying Pan

To prepare icing, combine 1/2 cup brown sugar and bourbon in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook, without stirring, for 3 minutes or until a candy thermometer registers 25

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Brown Sugar

Bourbon

Candy

Icing

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Sauce Pan

Combine egg whites, cream of tartar, and 1/8 teaspoon salt in a large bowl; using clean, dry beaters, beat with a mixer at high speed until foamy.

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Cream Of Tartar

Egg Whites

Salt

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Bowl

Pour hot sugar syrup in a thin stream over egg whites, beating at high speed until stiff peaks form, about 3 minutes. Reduce mixer speed to low, and continue beating until the egg white mixture cools (about 3 minutes).

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Simple Syrup

Egg Whites

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Place 1/4 cup butter in a large bowl; beat until light and fluffy. Fold in 1 cup egg white mixture. Fold butter mixture into the remaining egg white mixture.

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Egg Whites

Butter

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Bowl

Spread about 3 tablespoons icing over each cooled cupcake.

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Cupcakes

Spread

Icing

Combine meringue powder and 1 tablespoon water in a bowl, stirring with a whisk until smooth.

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Water

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Bowl

Add powdered sugar, beating with a mixer at medium speed until thick and smooth. Stir in black food coloring to desired shade. Scrape the powdered sugar mixture into a zip-top plastic bag, and snip a tiny hole in 1 corner of bag. Pipe black spiders or webs over frosted cupcakes.

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Powdered Sugar