I first posted this Halloween Cobweb Cake back in October 2011 when I was still vegetarian. If you want to make a vegan Halloween cake you can use my recipe for vegan chocolate fudge cake and replace the white chocolate cobweb with one made with white glacé icing or store bought writing icing. 

Continuing our spooky theme, this week’s recipe is for a very easy creepy Halloween cobweb cake! My Darling Girl’s school is closed for INSET today so she and I are having a bit of a bakeathon! As we decorate the house for tonight’s Halloween celebrations a delicious smell of chocolate is wafting around…no bad thing!

Chocolate cake with a white icing spiral, pushed outwards to look like a cobweb.

 

How to Make a Halloween Cobweb Cake

To make our creepy cobweb cake we baked two basic chocolate Victoria sponges and sandwiched them together with chocolate butter icing before topping them with more chocolate icing, a white chocolate cobweb and the scariest spider we could find in our toybox. Just look at those red eyes, she’s a wicked little creature!

The cobweb is super simple to make, all you need to do is to pipe a series of concentric circles on to the top of your cooled cake and then drag lines from the centre to the perimeter using a cocktail stick or skewer.

You could make a little spider out of coloured icing, she’d probably be a lot cuter than the one my daughter found in the toy box and plonked on top. I nearly jumped out of my skin! I’m not sure that anything is spookier for me than a spider, sitting in the middle of a cobweb cake – this was a bit too real for my sensitive soul!

Chocolate Halloween Cobweb Cake with a plastic spider decoration sat in the middle.

cobweb cake, Halloween baking

Cobweb Cake – Creepy Halloween Baking

A really simple chocolate cobweb cake for Halloween.
Print Pin Rate
Course: Baked Goods, Cake
Cuisine: English
Keyword: Cobweb Cake, Halloween Baking
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Cooling Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Servings: 10
Calories: 476kcal

Equipment

  • 2x 20cm sandwich tins
  • 1 plastic spider
  • cocktail stick or skewer

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 2 20cm sandwich tins greased and base lined
  • 180 g/1½ cups plain flour
  • 2 level tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 level teaspoon baking powder
  • 150 g/¾ cup caster sugar
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 150 ml/? cup sunflower oil
  • 150 ml/? cup ¼ pint milk

For the Icing

  • 225 g/1? cups plain chocolate
  • 100 g/½ cup (4obutter
  • 50 g/? cup white chocolate
  • 1 plastic spider

Instructions

  • Heat the oven to 160°C (325°F, Gas Mark 3)
  • Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl
  • Beat the eggs, oil, syrup and milk together in a smaller bowl/jug
  • Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture
  • Beat well and pour into tins
  • Bake for 30 – 35 mins until the cake springs back when pressed with a fingertip
  • Turn onto a wire rack to cool.
  • Melt the dark chocolate in a small bowl over a pan of hot water
  • Add the butter in pieces and mix well
  • Allow to cool slightly
  • Spread half the icing on to one of the cakes and sandwich the other on top of it
  • Cover the cake with the rest of the icing (you will need to do two coats, pop the cake in the fridge to set the first coat before adding another, keep the chocolate warm over the pan while you do this)
  • Break the white chocolate pieces into a clean bowl and melt over a pan of hot water, stirring gently
  • Leave to cool for a few minutes and spoon into a piping bag/ small plastic bag with a tiny corner snipped off or one of these child friendly piping nozzles
  • Gently squeeze a spiral design on to your cake
  • Using a wooden skewer or cocktail stick drag lines out from the centre to the edge
  • Finally, pop your spider into her rightful home!

Notes

Nutritional information is only an approximate guideline, created using an online calculator. Calculations will vary according to the ingredients you use and your cooking methods.

Nutrition

Calories: 476kcal
Like this recipe?Follow @ThinlySpread or tag #thinlyspread!

 

Halloween Baking Ideas

If you want to go the whole Halloween hog, you could serve up some spooky spider cookies just to continue the theme! 

Chocolate chip spider cookies with a large rubber spider.

Or you could have a go at these wonderful Tombstone Cupcakes from Domestic Gothess (vegan)

Tombstone cupcakes with cobwebs and bones.

Or these Mummy Cupcakes from Delicious Every Day (vegetarian)!

Cupcakes decorated with egyptian mummy faces.

Happy Halloween from All of Us!

The Spiders Say “Pin Us For Later So You Know Where We Are And We Don’t Scuttle Off”

Halloween chocolate cobweb cake topped with a spooky cobweb and a scary spider for Halloween!

Pin It on Pinterest