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
I got this idea for a spider cake from a cake on this site. I baked the back part using a ball pan, and the head is a cup cake. I made buttercream frosting and colored it myself. I piped the center orange to start and worked my way around the spider using the brown … Read more
My son wanted a “Miss Spiders Sunny Patch” birthday. As of this write-up, there is nothing out there with regards to party favors, party supplies, etc. with the Miss Spider theme, so I was on my own. We decided to use a theme called “Bugs Everywhere” for the tablecloth, blow outs, napkins, and hanging decorations. … Read more
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