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Halloween
Spider Cake
Bake a chocolate cake according to package
directions, or bake your favorite from-scratch chocolate cake.
Frost
with chocolate frosting. Using white
frosting, make thin circles on top of the
cake - almost looking like a bulls-eye. Make a big circle on the
outside, and smaller circles in the inside. Use a
toothpick, and starting in the center of
the bulls-eye, gently pull the toothpick through the top of the
icing.
Do this in five or six places, all starting in the middle of the cake
and
going straight to the outer edge. This pulls the white icing, and
makes it look like a spider web. Top the cake with a doughnut
spider.
(see below)
DOUGHNUT SPIDER
Ingredients:
2 or 4 doughnuts or doughnut gems
pipe cleaners
small amount of icing in a color to match
doughnuts
googly eyes or chocolate chips
I like to use chocolate doughnuts for this,
but other colors would work as well. I also like to use the small
doughnut gems, because then two spiders will fit easily on the cake,
but
full-sized doughnuts can be used, too. Place one doughnut on a
plate.
Put a fairly thick layer of icing on top of the doughnut. The cut
your pipe cleaners to a size that will work well with your
doughnuts.
If using full sized doughnuts, just use 4 black or brown pipe cleaners
and don't cut them at all. Bend the pipe cleaners to make eight
spider
legs. Lay the pipe cleaners across the doughnut and top with the
second doughnut. The second doughnut holds the legs tight to the
first doughnut. Now use two small drops of icing to make eyes for
your spider. You can place googly eyes on top of the icing, or
you
can place two small chocolate chips on top of the icing for the eyes.
These spiders can be placed on top of the
spider web cake above, or can be served to party guests. The
small
doughnut gems work well when serving a lot of students in a school
class
party.
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