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This creepy spider won’t bite you, but you’ll love biting
it! This fun and tasty cake is a great project for the kids at Halloween.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/3 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsps baking powder
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 3 tbsps butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup milk
- 1 can vanilla frosting
- 2 cans dark fudge icing
- Red food coloring
- 8 black licorice twists or black pipe cleaners
- 2 large red jellybeans or gum drops
- 8 small green jellybeans or gum drops
Method:
Preheat oven to 350°. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking
powder, cocoa and salt. Set aside. In mixer, cream butter and sugar
until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well with
each addition. Stir in vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately
with the milk and beat well. Grease and flour a 1-quart and a 2.5-quart
Pyrex mixing bowl. Pour 1¼ cup of the batter to the small
bowl and the remaining batter to the larger bowl. Bake both cakes
for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the small cake
comes out clean. Remove the small cake and continue to bake the
larger cake for 20 minutes, or until done. Allow both cakes to cool
completely then place onto a serving platter or cake board. Cut
the larger cake in half horizontally. Tint the vanilla frosting
with red food coloring to create a blood red color. Scoop out a
small section of the inside of the cake on the bottom half. Fill
the section with red icing and top with the other half. Ice the
outside of both cakes with the fudge icing and place the small cake
touching the larger cake to create the head of the spider. Place
large jellybeans on the small cake and surround them with small
jellybeans to create the spider’s eyes. Add the 8 licorice
twists or pipe cleaners, 4 on each side of the body, for the legs.
Note: You can also use 1 box
of dark fudge chocolate cake mix instead of making the cake from
scratch. Follow the same directions above for preparing the pans
and baking and decorating the cake.
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