Valentine’s Spiders?

Today was my morning to have one on one ‘special time’ with my daughter, which also meant that she got to have candy as a treat.  She chose these sour straws.  I’d never seen them before, but she liked them and when she was eating on she said “we could make spider cupcakes out of these”.  As I’m on a roll with Valentine’s Day ideas, I thought why not make Valentine’s Day spiders.

It was also a good opportunity to show that a 3 year old can decorate cupcakes, with a bit of help.  First I rough iced the cupcake with white icing, but you could use any color.  Then she dipped the cupcake in some pink sugar as it’s her favorite.

I dipped it again, just to make sure it was well covered.

Then I cut the sour straws into 8 lengths and she stuck them into the spider’s body.

We added mini M&M eyes and a heart sprinkle for a mouth.  Then she decided that the spider needed some hearts on her back to make her look prettier, and she was done!

I decided to make a ‘boy’ spider using red sugar.

As you can see he looked no different from the girl, proving that anything I can ice, so can a 3 year old.