spiderman cake

hey so it was my baby brother and sisters birthday in February and i took pictures of their cake that i made and have just looked through all my cake pictures and found them so here is my baby brothers a spiderman cake:

the black things with yellow dots are spiders and i didnt actually make the spiderman we used my brothers toy

ingredients:

6 ounces of self raising flour

16 ounces of butter

16 ounces of caster sugar

8 large eggs

2 tsp of vanilla essence

a tsp of baking powder

2 tbsp of water

6-7 tbsp of cocoa powder(if you want but you need to take 6-7 tbsp of flour out)

decoration:

500g of icing sugar

250g butter

2 tbsp of vanilla essence

black and blue gel colours

1.5kg pack of white regal icing 

method:

1.preheat your oven to 190°c and line your tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie butter spray(i use this for my cakes and the cakes pop out after a couple of minutes)

2. mix the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth

3 one by one crack the eggs and add them into the mixture. Mix it for a couple of minutes during this add your water and vanilla essence

4. after add in the flour baking powder and cocoa powder (if you want) mix it until it is light and fluffy

5. after it has been well mixed together and is light and fluffy you can start pouring the mixture into the tins/moulds make sure they are leveled out

6. put the cakes in for around 20-25 mins you should be able to put a knife /skewer through the middles of the cakes when you take the knife/skewer out they should be clean

7. leave the cakes to cool for around an hour after that cut around the edges and the top of the cakes equally

8. whilst the cake cools make the buttercream using the recipe that i have put up in one of my other posts

9. spread a thin layer of buttercream all over the cake and put the cake in a cool room or the fridge

10. next colour 1kg of your regal icing blue with GEL colours and roll out so its big enough to cover all of your cake if it rips take the regal icing off and do it in separate parts. Cut a long strip that goes around the sides of the cake and then cut some of the regal icing big enough to cover the top of the cake

11. bring the cake back and place the regal icing on and the colour some of the left over white regal icing black using GEL colours

12. with a small amount of the black regal icing roll it up into a ball and then use a small amount and roll it into a long thin sausage and cut into 8 equal parts to make them into spiders legs attach the legs to the regal icing ball which is the body and then use some of the buttercream to pipe on eyes using a writing nozzle. make as many as you want for your cake. Leave the spiders in a coll room to harden

13. colour some of the left over buttercream black to pipe the spiderwebs. Fill a piping back with the black buttercream and split the cake into 8 equal pieces by piping the black lines. Start on one of the lines and pipe a curved line to one of the 7 other lines.(this may sound confusing but if you look at the picture of the cake it might help you.

14. continue this all around the cake and once done find a spiderman toy not too big and spread a small amount of buttercream at the bottom and then place the spiderman in the centre of the cake and scatter the spiders ,that you made ,on the cake.