This Miss Spider cake was made for my nephew. He loves bounce. All it is: white cake with buttercream frosting. I looked everywhere for a Miss Spider pan but couldn’t find one. So I copied the picture from the party napkins.
I just made cakes with normal cupcake recipe 3 eggs, 3oz sugar, 3oz butter and 6oz flour and baked in cases. Once cool, I covered them in glace icing, just icing sugar and water. Then decorated the spiders cupcakes with one chocolate button for body, liquorice strips cut for legs then dropped a small amount … Read more
This idea for a spider cake isn’t new but I tried to make the cake and icing all out of chocolate. The cake itself is three tiers of chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache buttercream frosting/filling. Drizzled over that is a Sacher/ganache icing. To make it you need good quality dark chocolate (12 oz), cream(12 … Read more
I made this Spider Web Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. He has a thing for spiders and bugs etc, so thought it was pretty cool. The cake itself is made from a normal chocolate cake recipe quadrupled to fit into a 40cm x 40cm tin. To shape the cake I cut a rough … Read more
Technically these bugs should be spider cupcakes with eight legs but we ran a bit short on legs! The legs were red string candy. We found it easiest to use a skewer to first make the hole before inserting the string. We used chocolate cupcakes covered in chocolate frosting and brown sprinkles. The eyes were … Read more
This is a three-layered cake I made for my niece’s first b-day. She was having a Miss Spider Party. I used green and blue whip cream to frost the cakes. I made the flowers by using assorted lengths of spaghetti that I dyed with green food coloring. When dried I attached sugar flowers. With royal … Read more
This is a spider cake I made for a Halloween Party and my first attempt at a 3D cake. I made it using the Wilton ball pan and iced the two halves together with buttercream. The body was iced with Black Buttercream and a star tip. Once iced, I added the legs (black licorice) and … Read more
This spider birthday cake was made for my son’s 5th “Bug” birthday party. Once again I was asked to create a theme cake and I found many ideas on this website. This cake was prepared using one chocolate box cake mix, baked in both a large and small mixing bowl. I used the larger bowl … Read more
I just made cakes with normal cupcake recipe 3 eggs, 3oz sugar, 3oz butter and 6oz flour and baked in cases. Once cool, I covered them in glace icing, just icing sugar and water. Then decorated the spiders cupcakes with one chocolate button for body, liquorice strips cut for legs then dropped a small amount … Read more
I made this Miss Spider cake for a friends daughter. I searched the web for ideas. I made Miss Spider and her friends with fondant, that I had made different colors. It turned out great and Ally loved it!s daughter. I searched the web for ideas. I made Miss Spider and her friends with fondant, … Read more
This Halloween spider cake was one of the easiest cakes I have ever made. I used 2 Pyrex bowls to make the head and body. I froze the cakes overnight because it helps keep the crumbs packed down so you don’t have a mess. I cut just a small amount off one end of each … Read more
I made this Spider Halloween Birthday Cake for all the October Birthday’s in the family. We’ve always had the traditional birthday cakes and I wanted to do more of a Halloween theme cake this year. I kept it simple using homemade buttercream icing (recipe found on internet)with an easy web design and spider. The cake … Read more