Spider Birthday Cake

Beautiful or scary a spider birthday cake is a project that can be as easy or as complex as you want. Create a multi-layered cake by using baking bowls to bake the spider’s hump or you can use a sheet cake filled with all types of spiders. Both of these provide just two of the many ways to produce arachnid fun.

Spider Birthday Cakes

by Cindy Godfrey

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This was probably one of the easiest birthday cakes I've made for my kids! I baked the cake mix in a round pan and finished off the batter in cupcakes.

With used a star tip on my decorating bag and filled the bag, half with purple icing and half with black. You could used any colors you want, but this cake was for my son, so black and purple seemed like great colors. (It was also close to Halloween)

I covered the entire cake and all the spider cupcakes with little stars. Then I went back and added white circles with icing for the eyes and a black center in the white to finish the eyes. Then I added a crooked little smile. I used bright pink.

The finishing touch is the legs. They're made out of pipe cleaners, twisted and shaped. On the big spider I tucked the legs under the cake, on the spider cupcakes I poked them in on the sides.

Baking in Bowls

Many glass bowls can be used to bake round shaped cakes, plus cake pans are available in round and spider shapes. Once you bake the spider cake then decorating it will be a snap. Colored sugar toppings, cream and liquid food coloring provide a color palate to make any type of spider you want. Using sheet cakes to create habitats for small plastic spiders is another way to create a spider cake.

Creating Spider Legs and the Web

Make spider cake legs from thin, rectangular pieces of sheet cakes arranged on both sides of the spider body. Use icing to help keep the legs in place, while icing the surface makes this project easier.

Decorate sheet cakes iced in gray or blue icing with tube icing to create a top spider’s web. Using plastic spiders, the web can become home to a wide variety of spiders and egg sacks created from marshmallows. Plastic flies may be a fun way to expand this type of decorated spider birthday cake.

Colors and Kinds of Cakes

Baking cake inside colored ice cream cone cupcakes provides a canvas for creativity when making spider cakes. Turn brown cones into trees with a spider dangling from a licorice whip web, while green cones may be mossy ground where spiders wait in anticipation for an afternoon snack.

Choosing a local spider species as the birthday cake provides a way to combine education with entertainment. Scavenger hunts for spider webs, spiders and the insects they eat allows guests to learn while having fun. Having them eat the cake while comparing notes will encourage exploration.

Learning about Spiders

Combining learning with cake provides the older child with opportunities to explore the world around them whether inside or out. Using plastic spiders as miniature cupcake decorations together with small books created from educational websites can form part of a scavenger hunt. Guests can choose a cupcake then see if they can match their spider to one they find outdoors.

Since miniature cupcakes are smaller than regular ones letting party guests eat two or three during the party will not be a problem. Spider shaped cakes, spiders covering a cake or a spider birthday cake created from individual cupcakes offers a variety of games, decorations and fun.

Spider Cupcake Video

Learn how to make these easy spider cupcakes with chocolate sprinkles, icing and candy in this video tutorial.

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