Try these Simple Tricks for Halloween Treats

Last Friday on TheFieldPosition.com, Darcy Maulsby shared a few of the Spooktaclar recipes she taught cooking students how to make recently.  The menu included Spiced Spider Cider, hearty Jack O’Lantern Pot Pie, with a side of Crazy-Good Carrots, followed by Hocus-Pocus Pumpkin Bars and topped off with Stunning Spider Web Chocolate Cupcakes.

A few readers asked if she would be willing to share recipes for Hocus-Pocus Pumpkin Bars and Stunning Spider Web Chocolate Cupcakes, so… we’re sharing these two recipes with you today.  It’s unusual for us to post recipes on Monday, but we wanted to make sure you’d have every recipe need to create your own frightfully fun meal for this holiday.

I’m also sharing a few links of my own in case you’re in need of ideas for classroom parties:

• Great Pumpkin Cookies
• Spooky Jell-o Jigglers
• Frightfully Easy Ghost Cookies

Itsy Bitsy Spider Web Cupcakes

• 1 package chocolate cake mix
• 1 to 2 cans chocolate frosting
• 2 cups white chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Prepare chocolate cake mix and bake cupcakes. Frost with prepared frosting.
2. Template to make the spider webs is online a at: http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/data/spiderwebs.pdf)
3. Microwave 2 cups white-chocolate chips in a bowl for 30 seconds and stir.
4. Continue to microwave in 20-second intervals until almost melted.
5. Stir again until chocolate is completely melted.
6. Pour inside a freezer bag with one tip snipped off to create a piping sleeve.
7. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
8. Slide spider web template underneath paper.
9. To make each web, use piping sleeve to trace white chocolate along design, making sure to connect all lines.
10. Repeat process until you’ve created 24 toppers.
11. Chill them in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
12. Then, using a spatula, remove webs carefully from parchment and position one on each cupcake.