Children's Cakes Recipes - Spiders Cake Recipe

  
 

Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Spiders' Cake

Ingredients

  • 900g dome-shaped lemon sponge cake

  • 225g lemon flavor glace icing

  • black and yellow food coloring

  • For the Spider

  • 115g plain chocolate, broken into pieces

  • 150ml double cream

  • 45ml ground almonds

  • cocoa powder, for dusting chocolate vermicelli

  • 2-3 liquoricess wheels, sweet centers removed

  • 15g sugar-paste icing

  • greaseproof paper

  • small greaseproof paper piping bag

  • wooden skewer

  • 20cm cake brand

Method:

  1. Place the cake on greaseproof paper. Tint 45ml/3 tbsp of the glace icing black. Tint the rest yellow and pour it over the cake, letting it run down the side.

  2. Fill a piping bag with the black icing and, starting at the centre top, drizzle it round the cake in an evenly-spaced spiral. Finish the web by drawing downwards through the icing with a skewer. When set, place on the cake board.

  3. For the spiders, gently melt the chocolate with the cream, stirring frequently. Transfer to a bowl, allow to cool, then beat the mixture for 10 minutes, or until thick and pale. Stir in the ground almonds, then chill until firm enough to handle. Dust your hands with a little cocoa, then make walnut-size balls with the mixture. Roll the balls in chocolate vermicelli.

  4. For the legs, cut the liquoricess into 4cm lengths. Make holes in the sides of the spiders and insert the legs. For the spiders' eyes, Tint a piece of sugar-paste icing black and form into tiny balls. Make larger balls with white icing. Stick on using water. Arrange the spiders on and around the cake.