This easy Halloween spider web cake is how you transform a delicious gingerbread cake into a spectacular Halloween spider cake. It's like the most moist cake you have combined with a creamy buttery frosting. It's a party dessert that's easy to prepare that has a WOW factor.
This cake is made from warming spices and fits great with the inclement weather that is normally associated with Halloween. With each bite it warms your inner you and it tastes great with a cup of hot chocolate or tea. The cake is finished with frosting and then spiders are divided on top so it naturally fits the Halloween theme.
Making an edible spider web cake is easy
Now it may seem very difficult, but it is not that bad. The spiders webs are M & M's and the legs and the web are made of frosting. Because of the many colors the cake looks exuberant. And everything is edible.
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- Making an edible spider web cake is easy
- Why do you want to prepare this delicious Halloween cake?
- Which ingredients do you need for this cake, including the edible spider web?
- How to prepare this easy Halloween with spider web cake?
- How do you draw the spiderweb on the cake?
- Recipe substitutions and variations
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- Preparing in advance
- Store your cake
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Why do you want to prepare this delicious Halloween cake?
- It's got a moist gingerbread flavor and is very easy to make. Even lumps are not a problem.
- The frosting is ready in less then 15 minutes.
- Drawing the edible spiderweb is done with ready made store-bought frosting. Easy going.
- You add whole wheat flour for extra fiber and a nutty flavor.
- A delicious cake for a Halloween birthday party or at your Halloween cocktail party.
- All ingredients are easy to buy.
Which ingredients do you need for this cake, including the edible spider web?
These are the ingredients that are needed for this Easy Halloween spider web cake:
- Apple butter, honey and brown sugar: you want a sweet cake, of course. You could use white sugar, but all these sweeteners have got a extra rich flavor, which is great for a winter cake.
- Gingerbread spices: Warm spices, the flavor of the holidays.
- Whole wheat flour and flour: the whole wheat flour gives a nutty flavor to the cake. The all purpose flour makes the air lighter.
- Baking powder: necessary for the rising of the cake.
- Butter milk: butter milk makes the batter fluid and, because it's a bit acid, it makes the baking powder starting to give air.
- Egg whites, butter and sugar: by whisking the egg whites with the sugar we prepare an Italian meringue. An Italian meringue is prepared by heating the egg whites (in contrary to normal meringue).
- Coloring frosting edible: You can buy this ready made in a tube. If you warm this in a glass of water, you can draw the spider cob and legs of the spider more easily.
- M&M's: are used as the body of the spider. Put it upside down (so the M faces the cake) so it looks even better.
How to prepare this easy Halloween with spider web cake?
A printable recipe with easy steps can be found at the bottom of this blog.
Step 1: Make the gingerbread cake. Line a baking form with baking paper. Warm the apple butter, honey and sugar in a saucepan and stir until dissolved. Turn of the heat and let it cool for 10 minutes.
Mix in a bowl both flours, baking powder and gingerbread spices. Pour the butter milk and apple butter mixture and whisk until it's mixed. Lumps are not a problem!
Step 2: Pour the batter in the springform and bake for 1 hour at 320 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius). Take the cake out of the oven and let it stand for 5 minutes. Remove the baking form and let it cool down further on a rack.
Step 3: Make the Italian meringue butter frosting. Add the sugar with the egg white in a heat proof bowl. Put a pan on the heat and hang the bowl above the water (don't touch it).
Let the egg whites slowly rise to 160 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius) while whisking. Take the bowl of the heat and keep whisking until the egg whites are cooled down to room temperature.
Add the butter cube by cube to the bowl, and whisk until it's incorporated.
Step 4: Put the cooled cake upside down in front of you. Smear meringue on the top and sides. With the edible frosting draw a web and put some M&M's on top.
Make small spiders of the M&M's
How do you draw the spiderweb on the cake?
Although it looks very complicated. Take your colored frosting and warm it up a bit (so it's easier to draw the lines).
Draw a point in the middle and then make a cross all over the top of the cake. Draw a full diagonal line and one halfway (to the point in the middle). Between the lines draw bows. Start in the middle and work outwards (then you won't mess up your ready made lines).
Add some M&M's in the not drawn web part and draw a line towards them. On each sides draw spider legs. You can also add spiders to the sides of the cake for extra decoration.
Recipe substitutions and variations
- Because Halloween is a fall holiday, I choose a gingerbread cake as the base. But off course you can make a vanilla cake. Use twice the ingredients as stated in this recipe for an easy cake.
- If you're a chocolate addict (and I can rely to that) make a chocolate version. Use chocolate mocha beans as spider bodies and take melted pure chocolate to draw the cob web and the spider legs.
💭 Top tips
- Mix the batter until it's well mixed but don't overbeat it. This cake even allows lumps. If you should mix to long, there will be to much air in the cake and you will get a whole in the middle when baked.
- Line the springform with baking paper. That way you can loosen the cake easy from the spring form. It may seem difficult to cut a round baking paper, but in this Youtube video I show you the easy way:
- Check if your cake is done by pricking a satay skewer in the middle of the cake. When it comes out dry and clean your cake is done. Otherwise bake for another 3 minutes and check again.
- Let the cake stand at room temperature for 5 minutes, before releasing the spring form. Because the cake cools a bit it will shrink a little bit. Therefor you can release it easier from the form.
- You can make your own frosting and place in a piping bag, where you cut off a small tip to make the drawings. But the frosting is also for sale in styluses that can be warmed and got exactly the right tip for writing or drawing.
Preparing in advance
You can prepare the cake in the morning. Keep it in the refrigerator until use.
Store your cake
- Store this cake up to 2 days in the refrigerator.
- You can freeze the gingerbread cake without frosting in the freezer up to 3 months. Once you've added the frosting this cake can't be frozen.
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Easy Halloween Spider Web Cake
Equipment
Ingredients
Gingerbread Cake
- 400 grams apple butter
- 250 grams honey
- 100 grams brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons gingerbread spices
- 500 grams wholemeal flour
- 200 grams flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 300 mL buttermilk
Italian meringue butter Frosting
- 3 egg whites size L
- 250 grams butter unsalted, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 50 grams sugar
Garnish
- colored sugar pencil
- M & M's
Notes
- Mix the batter until it's well mixed but don't overbeat it. This cake even allows lumps. If you should mix to long, there will be to much air in the cake and you will get a whole in the middle when baked.
- Line the springform with baking paper. That way you can loosen the cake easy from the spring form. It may seem difficult to cut a round baking paper, but in this Youtube video I show you the easy way.
- Check if your cake is done by pricking a satay skewer in the middle of the cake. When it comes out dry and clean your cake is done. Otherwise bake for another 3 minutes and check again.
- Let the cake stand at room temperature for 5 minutes, before releasing the spring form. Because the cake cools a bit it will shrink a little bit. Therefor you can release it easier from the form.
- You can make your own frosting and place in a piping bag, where you cut off a small tip to make the drawings. But the frosting is also for sale in styluses that can be warmed and got exactly the right tip for writing or drawing.
Instructions
Preparation
- Seperate the eggs. Discard the yolks and keep the egg whites.
- Clean a hot proof bowl with dishwashing detergent and hot water. Also clean the whisk and the hooks of the mixer.
- Take the butter out of the refrigerator and put it on room temperature.
- Put a pan of water on the stove, which you can top with the heat proof bowl. Make sure that the bowl doesn't touch te water. This is used for warming the meringue and is called au-bain-marie.
- Line the spring form with parchment paper.
- Preheat the oven to 320 degrees Fahrenheit / 160 degrees Celsius.
gingerbread cake
- Heat in a pan the apple butter, honey and sugar and stir until dissolved. Reduce heat and allow to cool off slightly.
- Mix in a second bowl the flour, baking powder and gingerbread spices.
- Add the buttermilk, while stirring, and then the syrup mixture.
- Stir until you've got a smooth batter.
- Pour the batter into the spring form and bake for 60 minutes in the oven until it's done (check with the satay skewer, see tips).
- Let the cake stand for 5 minutes at room temperature. Remove the springform.
- Put the cake on a rack and let it cool down to room temperature.
Italian meringue butter Frosting
- Heat the water in the pan you already put on the stove (look at the preparations)
- Mix in a bowl the egg whites and vanilla extract with the sugar.
- Place the dish in a pan of hot water (at low heat) and heat, while stirring, the egg whites up to 160 degrees Fahrenheit / 70 degrees Celsius.
- Remove from the heat and mix the egg whites until they have cooled to room temperature.
- Then add, while continuing to mix, the butter a cube at a time. Mix it through the meringue and continue to mix until you have a smooth mixture.
How to prepare the easy Halloween spider web cake
- Put the cake upside down in front of you (so you have a flat and smooth top).
- Spread half of the frosting on the top smoothen it (with the back of a spoon, spatula or a knife).
- Then brush the edges with the remaining frosting.
- Grab the color frosting and draw a web at the top.
- Put a M & M (with M sign down) in the middle and draw the legs and the thread to the web.
- Add some spiders on the top and also onto the sides of the cake.
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