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!
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!
Cobweb Cake – Creepy Halloween Baking
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
Nutrition
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!
Or you could have a go at these wonderful Tombstone Cupcakes from Domestic Gothess (vegan)
Or these Mummy Cupcakes from Delicious Every Day (vegetarian)!
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”
Mmmm that looks totally delicious 🙂 How lucky to have a inset day today!
Have a fun evening and I know your enjoy the cake x
Thank you, we will!
That’s amazing! I love that, so simple and yet classically effective. I need to get one of piping nozzles, where’s it from?
My ShowOff ShowCase last weekend was on the theme of Hallowe’en, would you like to link it up?
Thank you! Of course I will. I got mine from Pampered Chef but I think Lakeland do similar.
I’m popping into town on Saturday so will investigate Lakeland.
Thanks so much for linking this up, a definite must for next year!
Loved the look of that cake until I saw the spider at the end – eugh!
Sorry! I was fine with it until teen 1 dropped it in the sink. I went to do the washing up and ……arghhhhh!
OH MY!!! Why do my cakes NEVER look like that!!!!!! That looks professional.. do you think in 11 years time, I *may* be as good as you.
Jealous from London
(and with that I am not suggesting that you are 11 yrs older, but that you have been a mum for at least 11 more years than me.. but probably about 12…)
Still Jealous from London, but slightly concerned that Jealous Londoner sounded catty…
No, I don’t… I am naturally skilled and it is nothing to do with age or experience….or my daughter doing most of it….! ;-D
Mmmmm me likey the lookie of that!! Nom nom and ding dong 🙂
Xx
Lol! Thanks lady! 😀
That is fab!
I have no doubt I would do an awful job of making it!
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It is so easy my lovely, even you could do it 😉
I want a piece with a cup of witch’s brew!!
Good idea…I’ll save you a piece!
wow now I’m impressed x
*Bows*
That is a good looking cake! mmhmmm!
Tasted good too! (and really easy)
oooh that is amazing!
I like this recipe a lot, it is one of my favourites. I`ve tried it this morning and it was very good, thanks for sharing.
Oh wow that is fantastic and looks so yummy too.