Boris the Spider Cake

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Boris the spider cake

Ingredients

For the cake 340g margarine 340g self-raising flour 340g caster sugar 6 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract For the filling 100g butter 500g icing sugar 2 tsp vanilla 3-4 tsp milk 3 tbsp strawberry jam For the icing 500g of ready-to-roll orange icing 500g ready-to-roll black icing 50g ready-to-roll white icing Method

Preheat your oven to 170°C. Both cakes will be made using one mixture. In a large mixing bowl combine your butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Slowly beat in 4 eggs and add half the flour, once well mixed add the remaining 2 eggs along with the vanilla extract and remaining flour and beat well. Pour the mixture into the tins filling each three quarters full. Bake the small cake for 20-25 minutes and the large for 50-60 minutes. Allow the cakes to cool in the tins and then transfer to a wire tray to cool completely. Once the cakes have cooled you can fill with any filling you desire but I have chosen to use strawberry jam and vanilla butter cream. Again in a large mixing bowl beat the butter until light and fluffy, gradually stirring in the icing sugar and vanilla extract. If your mixture is dry add milk until the buttercream is soft and spreadable. Cut your cakes in half and spread jam and buttercream over the bottom half. Replace the top half of the cake. Use the remaining butter cream to cover both cakes. Place the cakes on your cake board. Roll out orange icing to approx. 35cm diameter. Carefully lift the icing and place over the large cake, smooth down using an icing smoother from the top downwards trimming away any excess. Cut off approx. 100g of black icing and roll out to approx. 15cm diameter, place over the small cake, smooth down using an icing smoother from the top downwards trimming away any excess. Roll out another 100g black icing, use a small square cookie cutter to cut out 8 squares and a larger cutter to cut out another 4 squares, bush the backs of the squares with a little water and place the smaller squares on the outer side of the spiders body and the larger squares down the centre. Roll out 250g of black icing and cut into 8 strips. Place florist wire in the centre of each strip. Wrap the icing around the wire leaving a small amount of wire exposed at the top. Mould into the shape you require for the legs. If some wire is showing at the point where the leg bends, place a little more black icing over the top. Insert the legs into the cake at the desired points. Use two sizes of circular cookie cutters to cut out eyes and as with the squares brush the backs with a little water and press onto the cake. Roll a small piece of icing into two small balls for the pupils. Pipe teeth and fangs onto the spiders face. Serve to your hungry little ghosts and goblins. Products used

Master Class Silver Anodised 15cm Hemisphere Cake Pan Master Class Silver Anodised 20cm Hemisphere Cake Pan Home Made Traditional Stoneware 31cm Mixing Bowl Kitchen Craft Beech Wood 40cm Spoon Kitchen Craft Stainless Steel 18cm Round Sieve Master Class Non-Stick 46cm x 26cm Cooling Tray Kitchen Craft Oval Handled Stainless Steel Non-Stick Spatula Sweetly Does It Cake Cutting Wire Sweetly Does It Large Square Cake Board Sweetly Does It Large Non-Stick Rolling Pin Sweetly Does It Icing Smoother Kitchen Craft 6 Square Cookie Cutters With Metal Storage Tin Kitchen Craft Eleven Round Plain Pastry Cutters With Metal Storage Tin Sweetly Does It Pack of 5 Sugarcraft Decorating Brushes Sweetly Does It Plastic Piping Set With 8 Nozzles

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