Halloween cupcakes

I should have posted these Sunday when I finished them. Instead, you'll just have to save the idea for next year. I ran into this post on Sweet Simple Stuff just last week and decided I wanted to try these Halloween Black Bottom Cupcakes. Mostly, I just wanted to make the spiderwebs, but then I figured they fit well with these non-frosted cupcakes so I made the whole thing.

First of all, if you haven't made black-bottom cupcakes, you're missing out. My co-worker Katie often bakes them, and they're among my favorites. It's basically half cheesecake and half chocolate cupcake. How can you not love that?

This version adds orange food coloring and tops them off with webs made of white chocolate. The webs were fairly simple to make, although my decorating tip was a little thinner than I would have liked.