Cupcakes with cobwebs

Perfect for when kids turn up at your door trick-or-treating at Halloween – or if you have a bit of a sweet tooth yourself, these cobwebSpinnennetzcobwebby cupcakes will hit the spot. 

Ingredients

• 125 g plain flourWeizenmehlplain flour
• 25 g cocoa powder
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• 150 g caster sugarfeiner Streuzuckercaster sugar
• 50 g soft butter
• 1 egg
• 120 ml full-fat milkVollmilchfull-fat milk

For the icingZuckergussicing

• 2 egg whites
• 300 g icing sugar (UK)Puderzuckericing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract 
• 2 tbsp fresh orange juice
• 2 tsp cocoa powder

Preparation 

preheat sth.etw. vorheizenPreheat the oven to 180 °C (or 160 °C with oven fanhier: Umluftoven fan). Place nine paper casePapierförmchenpaper cases in a muffin trayMuffinformmuffin tray. Mix the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder in a bowl. Add the sugar and butter. Then, beat until combinedhier: vermischtcombined. Finally, add the egg and milk to create a thick, smooth mixture. Spoon this into the paper cases and bake for 20–25 minutes, or until a toothpickZahnstochertoothpick comes out clean. Put the cupcakes aside to cool.

For the icing, beat the egg whites until they are stiff. Then beat in the icing sugar, vanilla extract and orange juice. If the mix is too thin, add more icing sugar. Put about one third of this white icing in a small bowl, add the cocoa powder to turn it brown and set it aside. 

Spread the white icing over the top of the cupcakes, leaving a little space around the edges. Now, spoon the brown icing into a pastry bagSpritzbeutelpastry bag that has a small tipSpitze; hier: Tülletip and – starting at the centre of the cupcake – draw rings on the white icing until you reach the outer edge.

Next, take a sharp knife and pull a line in the icing from the centre of the cupcake to its edge. About one centimetre further along, pull the knife in the opposite direction. Keep doing this until you have a cobweb pattern. Repeat this with each cupcake.