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Our Homemade Cookies and Cream Cupcake recipe gets an adorable upgrade with some DIY Spider Oreos! These Oreo Spider Cupcakes are definitely a must make Halloween dessert!

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Originally published October 2010 and updated October 2024

It brings me so much JOY to carefully craft and create fun and tasty recipes for every holiday!

Over the years we have shared our Strawberry Cookies for Valentine’s Day, a red, white and blue charcuterie board for 4^th of July and let’s not forget our infamous and quite controversial Hard Boiled Egg Cookies for Easter!

But what really takes the cake, no pun intended, is our love and dedication to making Halloween treats!

Yes, while we may not be THAT house with over-the-top Halloween décor, we will throw a fan freakin’ tastic Halloween party or host an ultimate Halloween movie marathon and serve the best Halloween recipes!

In fact, we have even concocted our own name for our annual Halloween dessert extravaganza and deemed it affectionately “Ghoulish Grub”!

Today’s Ghoulish Grub recipe are some cute Halloween cupcakes.

We start with some chocolate cupcakes and then whip up an INSANELY delicious Oreo Frosting to go on top. Seriously guys, this frosting is so good I could eat it straight with a spoon!

We then make the easiest Halloween cupcake decoration, Oreo Spiders, and vola, an easy Halloween dessert idea for kids!

While I totally love how a full-size cake can look stunning, I think cupcakes are so much more approachable.

Cupcakes are an ideal dessert because you don’t have to fuss with trying to stack and layer a cake, they are easy to serve, and you don’t need to be an expert cake decorator to make cupcakes look amazing.

Simply learn to pipe on some frosting and then top with some festive sprinkles or a cute decoration, in this case, those Halloween decorated Oreos!

Viloa! A dessert to impress! 

Helpful Tips and Information:

What Chocolate Cupcake recipe to use for Spider Cupcakes?

You have a few different chocolate cupcake recipes you can use for these Oreo Spider Cupcakes. For a semi-homemade chocolate cupcake, you can make this recipe for doctored cake mix cupcakes, just omit the mint extract.

Or, you can make our go to easy Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes. And of course, these Oreo Cupcakes, with a cream cheese filling, are always a hit too.

You can even usually buy unfrosted chocolate cupcakes from your local grocery store bakery, if you didn’t want to worry about baking Halloween cupcakes from scratch and just focus on making the Oreo Buttercream Frosting and Oreo Spider Cookies.

How to store Oreo Cupcakes:

If you make these Chocolate Spider Cupcakes with our cake mix cupcake recipe or Eggless Chocolate Cupcake recipe, then these cupcakes can be stored in a sealed container on the counter for 2-3 days.

However, if you make the Cookies and Cream Cupcakes and use the cream cheese filling, then these Oreo Cupcakes will need to be stored in the refrigerator, just make sure and let them sit at room temperature for 15-20 minutes before serving.

If you liked this easy Halloween cupcake recipe, then you will LOVE these other Halloween desserts:

Homemade Halloween Dirt Pudding Cups – Graveyard Dirt Pudding is a classic Halloween dessert! However, skip the box mix and make chocolate pudding from scratch with this EASY recipe! 

Bat Brownie Bites – These little bite sized chocolate treats are so fun to make! They are a great last minute easy Halloween dessert!

Chocolate Spider Cookies – These Chocolate Spider Cookies are made with an delicious double chocolate cookie recipe, pretzels and candy eyeballs to create an adorable Halloween dessert.