Oct 06 2025

“BER” Month Recipe – Gummy Tarantula Cupcakes

In the shadowy recesses of a dimly lit kitchen, a culinary creature lurks, waiting to ensnare the unsuspecting with its sugary tentacles. A creature of the eight-legged variety, crawls from the darkest depths of a mad baker’s imagination. These Gummy Tarantula Cupcakes are a confectionery abomination that dares to blend the sweet with the macabre, the delightful with the terrifying.

These cupcakes, a creepy twist on a beloved dessert, begin their transformation with a foundation of moist, vanilla cake, baked to perfection and shrouded in a thick layer of white buttercream frosting. The frosting is topped with a black spider web, a disgusting façade for the horrors that dons the top of this nightmarish delight. Only true arachnophiles will enjoy these spooky treats.

If you fancy yourself an arachnophile, then you will want to make these Gummy Tarantula Cupcakes! Simply collect the ingredients and follow the instructions. The items needed to make these Gummy Tarantula Cupcakes are:

Once all of the items are gathered, start following the recipe! Grab the recipe below by clicking print Then make for your next party!

Gummy Tarantula Cupcakes

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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These Gummy Tarantula Cupcakes are a confectionery abomination that dares to blend the sweet with the macabre.


Credit: Oriental Trading’s Fun365

Ingredients

  • Boxed Cake Mix
  • White Frosting
  • Black Icing
  • Gummy Tarantulas

Directions

  1. Bake and frost cupcakes according to the recipe you’re using.
  2. To create spiderwebs, create three to four circles with black icing, beginning with a small circle in the center of the cupcake and moving toward larger circles as you move toward the outer edges. Using a toothpick or a knife, lightly drag the point from the inner circle through the outer circle. Repeat at least 6 times around the cupcake, creating the spiderweb.
  3. Finish by adding a gummy tarantula

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Please note, these recipes were not created by SKGaleana. These have been accumulated over the years from different websites and stored in the SKGaleana Vault for a future purpose. This recipe was found on Oriental Trading’s Free-N-Fun site, however, that site was discontinued. I believe their replacement site is now called Fun365.