Halloweegan Disaster! (Gluten-Free Chocolate Cupcakes)

Those are supposed to be spider web cupcake toppers. Not my best moment. I was trying to make these white chocolate toppers but using this vegan royal icing recipe instead. As you can see, the royal icing worked out wonderfully as far as drawing the webs goes, but the bottoms never fully dried which made it impossible to remove them from the wax paper without breaking them or smooshing them into a blob of sticky goo! I was able to salvage 1/4 of a spider web:

The cupcakes are the basic chocolate cupcakes from VCTOTW, which I made gluten-free because I'm all wheated out for the week. I used Bob's Red Mill gluten free flour mix instead of all purpose flour, and I threw in a couple extra tablespoons of tapioca starch in there for good measure. I also added an extra little splash of oil to the mix for extra moisture. The ganache? Also a recipe from VCTOTW. The cupcakes themselves were awesome if you ignore the fact that I completely fudged up the toppers! Next time I'll stick to vegan white chocolate for the spider webs as instructed in the original recipe.

Today's cuteness might be too much for some of you to handle! You've been warned! If you already hang out with me on Facebook you might have already seen this furry piano virtuosa that I shared the other day. If not - you're welcome. The "call and response" towards the end is my favorite part - it reminds me of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind! Enjoy - and happy weekend! :)