Prepare devils' food cupcakes according to package directions on box. Let these completely cool. While your cupcakes are cooling, prepare frosting.

Cream butter with a mixer.

Add cocoa and powdered sugar with milk. Beat until you reach a spreading consistency. Blend vanilla into mix. Frost cupcakes once cooled.

Top each cupcake with chocolate sprinkles.

How to make your Halloween cupcakes into spiders:

Select 2 Dum Dum Pops in the same flavor. Snip about an inch off the end of each stem. Unwrap the Dum Dum Pops. These are the spider's eyes. Using a dot of frosting, adhere an edible eye to each lollipop, then place them side by side into the cupcake.

Next, prepare the "legs." Take a black licorice twist and cut in half lengthwise, then cut in half again lengthwise. You should end up with four thin strips of licorice from each twist.

Repeat with a second piece of licorice. Alternately, if you can find black licorice laces, simply separate the laces and use one lace as each leg. Place four "legs" into each side of the cupcake, trimming excess licorice if needed.

Submitted by: Spangler Candy