This spooky spider cake is really easy to make and embellish! I’ll present you the way to flip a field of cake combine, frosting, and Oreo cookies into an lovable mini Halloween cake embellished with cobwebs and spiders.
Should you’re on the lookout for extra enjoyable Halloween desserts to make this 12 months, attempt my tutorials for cauldron cupcakes and skeleton Halloween cupcakes. Then, burn up your leftover sweet to make this Halloween sweet cake!
Why I Love This Spider Cake Tutorial
This Halloween spider cake has vibrant orange layers frosted with creamy vanilla and chocolate buttercream, embellished with a frosting spider net design and lovable Oreo spiders. It seemed so cute and it was surprisingly simple to make!
After all, it helped to start out with a field of cake combine, which lower down on the prep time. Right here’s why I really like this tutorial:
- It’s enjoyable and simple. You don’t must be a grasp cake decorator to show a easy layer cake right into a spooky spider cake. This tutorial makes use of simply two colours of frosting and a simple piping method to create the “net” sample. It’s nice if you happen to’re simply getting the cling of piping frosting.
- No fancy tools. You don’t even want a piping bag or piping suggestions. A Ziplock bag with the nook snipped works completely right here!
- Good for the spooky season. I really like this 6-inch cake as a result of it’s good for Halloween events, but it surely’s additionally a enjoyable design for a spider-themed birthday cake. You may get artistic adorning this cake with Halloween sweet, cookies, and extra to essentially make it your individual.
What You’ll Want
Beneath are some notes on what you’ll must make and embellish a spider cake this Halloween.
- Cake Combine – Select your favourite model of boxed white or yellow cake combine. Or, use your favourite selfmade recipe to make and bake the desserts from scratch.
- Meals Coloring – Orange meals dye for coloring the cake, and black meals dye for coloring the frosting. I like to recommend meals coloring gels as they’re stronger. A little bit goes a good distance.
- Frosting – I take advantage of my good vanilla buttercream to frost the cake and a can of store-bought chocolate frosting with black meals dye blended in for the spider net particulars. You possibly can additionally make a batch of my selfmade chocolate buttercream. An alternative choice is to make use of ready-made black adorning icing, like the type from Wilton.
- Oreos – I used Mini Oreos for the spider our bodies. You possibly can use any small, darkish cookie for this.
Make a Spider Cake (Step-By-Step)
Now, we’ll bake up our cake layers earlier than we frost and embellish our spider cake. This tutorial is simple, and the spider net design is a good way to get in some piping follow!
First, Bake the Cake
I take a shortcut with a field of cake combine for this recipe, however you possibly can completely bake three 6” layers of your favourite selfmade yellow cake if you happen to choose. Right here’s what to do:
- Make the batter. First, combine up your cake batter in keeping with the instructions on the field or following your most well-liked recipe. Afterward, stir in a couple of drops of orange meals coloring.
- Bake the desserts. Divide the batter evenly between three greased 6” cake pans, and bake. Simple peasy!
Subsequent, Assemble the Cake
After baking, you’ll must let the desserts cool fully earlier than you frost them. In any other case, recent buttercream will slide proper off the nice and cozy cake. Enable the desserts to return to room temperature, then assemble your layer cake as follows:
- Begin with the primary cake layer. Place your first cake layer on a plate. I prefer to dollop a little bit of frosting beneath to carry the cake in place. Then, use a big open-round piping tip (or a Ziploc bag with the nook snipped off) to pipe a thick vanilla buttercream border across the exterior of the cake as pictured.
- Fill the cake. Subsequent, use an offset spatula to unfold darkish chocolate frosting contained in the vanilla frosting border. Place the second cake layer over prime, and repeat.
- Frost the skin of the cake. Together with your third and remaining cake layer stacked, use the remaining vanilla frosting to cowl the highest and sides of the cake.
Embellish a Spider Cake
Final however not least, right here’s the way to embellish the frosted layer cake with a enjoyable, spooky cobweb and Oreo spiders!
- Pipe the spider net. I used a piping bag fitted with a #4 small spherical adorning tip and stuffed it with black frosting. Working slowly, pipe the frosting in an internet sample excessive of the cake. I prolonged the online down the facet of the cake so my “spiders” may dangle!
- Add the spiders. Press Mini Oreos into the cake, on the ends of the “net” or as you see match. Use the leftover white and black frosting so as to add the spiders’ legs and eyes.
Adorning Ideas
- Do a follow spherical. Should you’re a newbie on the subject of piping frosting, do a couple of “follow runs” on a big sheet of parchment paper first. You may get the cling of shifting the piping tip to create the online sample earlier than you’re taking your newfound expertise to the cake.
- Add extra decorations. You could be as artistic or so simple as you want on the subject of adorning a spider cake. As an alternative of Oreos, make colourful spiders with Lifesaver candies, add gummy bugs to the online, or add Halloween-themed sprinkles for a pop of orange and black. The sky’s the restrict.
- It doesn’t should be good. Should you make a mistake, don’t fear. You’ll be able to all the time cowl any gaps with an Oreo spider, extra frosting, or some additional sweet or decorations (see above). Keep in mind, your spider cake will style scrumptious it doesn’t matter what!
Storing a Spider Cake
- To retailer. As soon as this cake is frosted, you’ll need to maintain it coated in a cake service, or the same hermetic container. It’s high-quality to retailer at room temperature for 1-2 days, granted your kitchen isn’t sizzling or humid. In any other case, maintain the cake within the fridge and convey it to room temperature for serving.
- Freeze. I don’t suggest freezing the frosted cake, nevertheless, you possibly can bake the cake layers forward to retailer and freeze. Wrap the cooled desserts tightly in a double layer of plastic wrap and freeze them for as much as 1 month. Thaw the desserts fully earlier than assembling and frosting.
Extra Enjoyable Halloween Treats
Description
This spider cake is really easy to make and embellish! This tutorial turns a field of cake combine, frosting, and Oreo cookies right into a enjoyable Halloween cake embellished with cobwebs and spiders.
- 1 field yellow cake combine (plus the elements listed on the field)
- Orange meals coloring gel
- Black meals coloring gel
- 1 recipe of my good vanilla buttercream
- 1 can of chocolate frosting
- 1 bundle of Mini Oreos
To Make the Cake
- Grease three 6-inch cake pans with cooking spray, and put aside.
- Put together the cake batter in keeping with the instructions on the field. Use orange meals coloring gel to paint the batter orange.
- Divide the batter evenly between the ready cake pans and bake the desserts in keeping with the bundle instructions. Let the desserts cool fully.
To Assemble
- Put together a batch of vanilla buttercream frosting. Colour the canned chocolate frosting black utilizing black meals coloring gel.
- Place your first cake layer on a plate. Utilizing a big open-round piping tip, pipe a border of vanilla buttercream across the exterior fringe of the cake.
- Fill the vanilla buttercream border with black frosting utilizing an offset spatula. Place the second cake layer on prime and repeat, then add the third and remaining layer.
- As soon as the cake is stuffed and stacked, use the remaining vanilla frosting to frost the highest and sides of the cake.
To Embellish
- Add black frosting to a piping bag fitted with a #4 adorning tip. Pipe the frosting in an internet sample excessive of the cake, extending the online strains down the facet of the cake. These would be the “strands” the place the spiders can dangle.
- Press Mini Oreos into the cake as desired. Afterward, use leftover white and black frosting to pipe the legs and eyes.
