Miss Spider Cupcakes

Miss Spider comes to life as a cupcake. With her long licorice lace legs and batting licorice eyelashes, she's impossible to resist.

Watch Miss Spider every day on Nick Jr.

Ingredients

• 1 can (16 oz.) plus 1 cup vanilla frosting
• Green and yellow food coloring (liquid)
• 12 chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies (Mallowmars)
• 12 baked and cooled cupcakes in your child's favorite flavor
• 3 yellow spice drops
• Blue nonpareil sprinkles
• 24 green mini chocolate candies (M&M's)
• Red and blue tube frosting
• 1/2 cup chocolate frosting
• Black licorice laces
• Flower confetti sprinkles (from baking-supply stores)

Supplies

• Resealable plastic bags
• Small paring knife

Directions

1. Step 1

   Mix 1 1/2 cups of vanilla frosting with the green food coloring. Spoon 1/2 cup of the green frosting into a resealable bag. Tint the remaining vanilla frosting yellow and spoon 3/4 cup of the yellow frosting into a resealable bag.

2. Step 2

   To make Miss Spider's body, place the marshmallow cookies onto a wire cooling rack set over a wax-paper-lined cookie sheet. Heat the remaining yellow frosting in the microwave until just thin enough to pour, about 5 to 10 seconds. (Do not overheat!) Pour the frosting over the cookies to coat them. The excess frosting can be reheated if necessary. Let the cookies set for 30 minutes.

3. Step 3

   Frost the tops of the cupcakes with green frosting and place a marshmallow cookie in the center of each. Snip a 1/4-inch corner from the yellow-frosting bag and pipe a 1-inch mound of frosting for Miss Spider's head.

4. Step 4

   With a sharp paring knife, cut the spice drops into 12 triangles and insert them into Miss Spider's head to make her nose. Add a few blue sprinkles for freckles and attach the green M&M's for eyes. Use the tube frostings to pipe her eyes, mouth, and red top. Spoon the chocolate frosting into a resealable bag and snip a very small corner from bag. Use the chocolate frosting to pipe on her eye lashes.

5. Step 5

   Cut licorice laces into 2-inch pieces. Insert eight pieces as legs on each cupcake. Snip a small corner from the green-frosting bag and pipe spots of grass around her legs. Add the flower confetti sprinkles.

Nurtition Facts

• Calories: 607
• Total Fat: 22g
• Saturated Fat: 13g
• Trans Fat: 1g
• Cholesterol: 24mg
• Sodium: 259mg
• Total Carbs: 103g
• Fiber: 1g
• Sugar: 82g
• Protein: 3g