Create a Chocolate Spider Web Cake for Halloween

Spider Web Cake Elements

One pkg. Chocolate Cake Mix

It's Possible To Prepared Whitened Frosting OR
(1/2 cup whitened choc chips &lifier 1/2 teaspoon. shortening)

Butter knife or Wooden Pick

For Bots:

Large Black Gumdrop &lifier Black Licorice Whips

OR

Peppermint patty &lifier Red-colored Licorice Whips

OR

Chocolate Doughnut Hole &lifier Black Pipe Cleansers

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Making the wedding cake:

Bake the wedding cake based on package directions. Let awesome and take away both layers from pans.

Place lower layer upside lower on cake plate or cake board. Frost surface of cake and put second layer right side up. Frost entire cake with chocolate frosting.

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Making the Spider Web:

Using whitened frosting, make four to five concentric circles from the middle of the wedding cake outward, beginning small , ending about 1 " in the cake's edge. It ought to seem like you've attracted a bull's eye on top of your cake.

Now draw a butter knife or wooden pick carefully in the cake center outward such as the spokes of the wheel. This can pull the whitened frosting to become a real spider web. 8 lines can make a geniune-searching web.

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Spider Web Whitened Frosting Alternative:

Place 1/2 cup whitened chips and 1/2 teaspoon shortening (don't use butter, margarine, oil or spread) in small, heavy zipper-close plastic bag. Microwave at High 45 seconds.

Squeeze lightly until all of the chips are melted. Microwave one more ten to fifteen seconds as needed. Create a small decline in bottom corner of bag squeeze mixture onto cake as directed above.

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Making the Bots:

Gumdrop Spider: Cut 6 one inches bits of the black licorice whip. Poke 3 holes on both sides of a big black gumdrop and place licorice "legs". Plop the spider in your wonderful web cake.

Mint Patty Spider: Cut 6 1 inch bits of the red-colored licorice whip. Convey a small mint patty in your cake, pressing slightly in to the frosting to carry. Add 3 red-colored licorice pieces to every side from the mint patty. Pipe just a little reserved whitened frosting to the mint patty for eyes.

Doughnut Hole Spider: Cut 6 1 inch bits of black pipecleaner. Form each one of these right into a rounded "L" shape. Place 3 pipecleaner pieces into both sides of the chocolate doughnut hole. Place spider in your cake.

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Cake Design Variation:

Rather than chocolate cake, bake a pumpkin spice cake, whitened or yellow cake. Color whitened frosting with orange food coloring. Simply add red-colored and yellow food coloring towards the whitened frosting a drop at any given time til you have a pleasant deep shade of orange. Result in the spider web with black designing gel for any completely in a different way and different cake presentation.

See the finished Chocolate Spider Web Cake...