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Halloween Recipes - Decorating Spooky Spider Cupcakes

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David Guas: Hi! My name is David Guas with Damgoodsweet Consulting Group here in the Washington, D.

C. Area. We are talking about decorating our fun and spooky cupcakes for Halloween. So, here we already have our cupcakes which have completely cooled, give them a good 45 minutes to an hour. You dont want any sort of warmth or heat to them otherwise the icing will just run-off. What we are going to do is we have our milk which in this case is a quarter of a cup and we have our two and a half cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips.

We are going to add our milk to our chips and then we are going to place it in microwave on high for about a minute. In between the intervals of cooking or heating this we want to stop the microwave and stir with a spoon to ensure that there is no burning. So, initially I set the timer for 1 minute. We want to stop right after about 45 seconds or so and stir the ingredients to ensure that it is not burning and it also depends on the age of your microwave. If you have a high powered microwave that is fairly new, obviously you need to be more conscious of burning the chocolate. If it is an older model you will know the intervals of which needs to heat it.

We are going to stop it at this point. Remove it and then stir. At this point by feeling the bottom of the bowl, I feel we have enough heat to completely ensure the chocolates are melt. Just because it is not instantly melting, the tendency is to return it to the microwave. You dont want to do that. So, after the initial heating process, we are going to continue to stir the chocolate and milk until it is completely smooth. This may take a minute or so. Once all the lumps are melted then all of a sudden the chocolate mixture is nice and smooth. At this point, we are going to add some of our chow mein noodles. Once our chocolate is completely smooth and our chow mein and our rice crispies all together, I am going to go ahead and grab a stainless steel bowl just to ensure an even mixing process. Go ahead and transfer your completely smooth melted chocolate mixture. Then at this point add your dry chow mein and rice crispies. We have added a half a cup of rice crispies and three quarters of a cup of the chow mein noodles. Once you just lightly fold it and see how I am just turning this over, you dont want to mix it up too aggressively then we will break up our spider legs. At this point, we have our parchment paper; you can add or drop just about a tablespoon or so.

Try to keep them round and tight as this is the body of our spider. At this point, we are going to reserve this because we are going to pull out some of the chow mein noodles to make the individual legs for the spiders. While this is setting, give it about 10 minutes to set. We are going to go ahead and start icing our cupcakes with our vanilla frosting, using an offset spatula or butter knife. Give it a nice hefty topping of this vanilla frosting. This is going to act as the canvas or background to our wonderful spooky spider artistry cupcakes. At this point you can also place your spider body on top of the cupcake and then removing some of the chow mein, you create our spider legs. This is where the kids really enjoy participating in this. So, it is fun to prepare and also fun to eat.

There is our spider cupcake for spooky Halloween.

Expert: David Guas

Email: damgoodsweet@aol.com

In September 2007, Pastry Chef David Guas exchanges his longtime corporate role for an entrepreneurial path that includes private consultation, boutique catering, cookbook authoring, and, eventually, his own retail bakery. Damgoodsweet Consulting Group, LLC, the irreverent name he has given his company, is the perfect description for all of his work. In the beginning, however, odds were against the native New More »