Halloween Dessert Recipes: Whip Up Tasty Treats Like Spider Web Cupcakes

The Halloween season is finally around the corner; tis the season when creepy decorations crop up all across the streets, and people don their most elaborate costumes to celebrate the spookiest day of the year.

Once recognized as a typically Western holiday, Halloween parties are becoming increasingly common worldwide. While you can always rely on traditional Halloween desserts to ring in the festivities, you can also dip your toes into fun, sweet delights that are also visually impactful.

Here's how you can prepare some Halloween dessert recipes that'll make your All Hallows' Eve a howling success with creepy cupcakes, graveyard dirt pudding, and wicked witches' fingers. They are bound to entrap you in their delectable delight.

Spider Web Cupcakes

These cute and creepy cupcakes are covered in a frosting spider web and have a wee spider sitting atop. This recipe is great for that last-minute get-together, party, or reunion because of its preparation time.

Ingredients:

• 251 gm flour
• 152 gm sugar
• 103 gm Cadbury cocoa powder
• 2 tsp baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 122 ml milk
• 3 eggs
• 101 gm butter
• White frosting
• Candy spiders

Method:

1. First, separate the eggs and whip the whites to soft peaks.
2. Then, add sugar to the egg whites, and continue whipping until stiff and glossy.
3. Add the cocoa powder and vanilla extract into the egg whites.
4. Then, in a bowl, add the flour, pour in the milk, butter and baking powder, and mix the ingredients with a wooden spatula. You can also use a food processor to fold the mix until it forms a slightly runny batter. Now, add in the egg whites.
5. Fill cupcake liners with the batter and bake at 200°C for 20 minutes.
6. Once out of the oven, let them cool completely before frosting.
7. Transfer the white frosting to a piping bag, and make a spiral design with it on the cupcakes.
8. Take a toothpick, and with it, draw web patterns on the cupcakes to finish the design.
9. Before serving, chill the cupcakes in the refrigerator for an hour for the frosting to solidify. Decorate with single candy spiders.

Graveyard Dirt Pudding

A crowning jewel among spooky Halloween desserts, this rich pudding is topped with crushed Oreos and gummy worms to make it appear like a spooky graveyard.

Ingredients:

• 250 gm powdered sugar
• 102 gm Cadbury cocoa powder
• 23 gm cornstarch
• 450 ml milk
• 3 eggs
• 100 gm melted butter
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• Crushed Oreos
• Gummy worms

Method:

1. Whisk together sugar, cocoa powder, and cornstarch in a bowl.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the milk, eggs, and melted butter.
3. Then, fold the wet ingredients with the dry ones, until everything is incorporated.
4. After that, cook the mix over medium heat, constantly stirring until the mixture thickens.
5. Once you remove it from heat, stir in vanilla extract.
6. Finally, pour this pudding into small cups, or a big serving dish.
7. Before serving, add crushed Oreos and gummy worms on top.

To give your dirt pudding a bit of dimension, lightly sprinkle sea salt or Pink salt on the top of the pudding.

Witches' Finger Cookies

These Halloween cookies resemble fingers with red gel fingernails and black gel knuckles. These are the perfect cookies to use as the centerpiece of your Halloween dessert spread, delivering the taste and spook in equal measure.

Ingredients:

• 250 gm plain flour
• 102 gm salted butter
• 103 gm confectioner’s sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• A pinch of salt
• Red gel icing
• Black gel icing
• Edible eye beads

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C, and prepare a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
2. Then, sift flour, sugar, and salt into a bowl, making sure there are no lumps left.
3. To the mixture, add softened butter and stir everything till it forms into a dough.
4. At this stage, you need to beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
5. Then, roll the dough into finger-shaped rectangular cookies.
6. Line them up on the parchment paper and bake these in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
7. Once you take them out of the oven, you must allow the cookies to cool completely before frosting.
8. To do the frosting of the fingernails, use red gel icing, and for the knuckles, use black gel icing. Add edible eyes to make a spooky face on your finger cookies.
9. It is best to serve these cookies after letting the frosting set so that the design does not melt off even before they are consumed. You can make them a day or two in advance and store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator if you do not want to wait for too long on the day of the event.