Ingredients:
- paper cupcake liners, cases preferably brown (optional)
- liquorice allsorts, sweets (liquorice catherine wheels, shoe strings, boot laces etc for the legs.) or candy, for the eyes and the mouth (liquorice catherine wheels, shoe strings , boot laces etc for the legs.)
Directions:
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/360°F.
- This is a VERY easy all in one mix; simply put the softened butter into a large mixing bowl with the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, beaten eggs and vanilla extract. Mix on slow with a hand mixer, incorporating all the dry ingredients gradually into the butter and eggs. Increase the speed to medium and then to high. Stop and add the milk, tablespoon-by-tablespoon, whisking in between each spoon until you have a smooth, silky mixture with no lumps. Add the chocolate chips or chocolate pieces and mix well.
- Spoon the mixture into well-greased muffin tins, or tins lined with muffin cases - I do not use cases as a rule!
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until well risen - check with a wooden cocktail stick by pushing it in the middle of the cake, if it comes out clean, the cakes are ready.
- Leave to cool for 5 minutes and then gently run a knife around the sides to release the cakes - or take the cakes out if they are in muffin cases. Put them on a wire rack and allow to cool completely before decorating.
- Whilst the cakes are cooling, make the butter cream icing. Put the softened butter and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly by hand with a fork. Add the vanilla extract and mix again before adding the cocoa powder - mix all the ingredients together and then add the milk if you need to loosen the mixture for spreading. The butter cream icing should be soft and silky - but should still hold its shape.
- When you are ready to decorate the spider cakes, cut the liquorice Catherine wheels into legs that just dangle over the edge of the cake - mine were about 2 in length. Take the liquorice allsorts sweets/candy that have a white inside and a liquorice exterior - see photos - gently make a hole in the centre with a cocktail stick and push in a small sliver of liquorice to make the eyes. Choose a red or orange liquorice allsorts sweet/candy, which is layered - see photo - and cut each sweet/candy into 4 pieces for the mouth.
- Gently push the legs into the top of the cake at intervals - the icing will go over the top to keep them in place later, so do not worry how they look! You need 8 legs per spider - of course! Spoon on some chocolate butter cream icing to cover the legs and come within 1/2 of the edge - make it look hairy by stippling with a fork. Then place two eyes in the top, finishing off with a mouth! Continue to decorate all the cakes in this way, place them all on a plate with some extra sweets/candy scattered around them, and watch the looks of delight on the children's faces when they see them!
Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per 1 Serving | |||
| Calories | 912.06 Kcal (3819 kJ) | ||
| Calories from fat | 446.68 Kcal | ||
| % Daily Value* | |||
| Total Fat | 49.63g | 76% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 216.85mg | 72% | |
| Sodium | 359.13mg | 15% | |
| Potassium | 261.63mg | 6% | |
| Total Carbs | 109.93g | 37% | |
| Sugars | 45.84g | 183% | |
| Dietary Fiber | 1.48g | 6% | |
| Protein | 8.43g | 17% | |
| Vitamin A | 0.5mg | 17% | |
| Iron | 1.8mg | 10% | |
| Calcium | 103.1mg | 10% | |
| Amount Per 100 g | |||
| Calories | 442.02 Kcal (1851 kJ) | ||
| Calories from fat | 216.48 Kcal | ||
| % Daily Value* | |||
| Total Fat | 24.05g | 76% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 105.09mg | 72% | |
| Sodium | 174.05mg | 15% | |
| Potassium | 126.8mg | 6% | |
| Total Carbs | 53.28g | 37% | |
| Sugars | 22.22g | 183% | |
| Dietary Fiber | 0.72g | 6% | |
| Protein | 4.09g | 17% | |
| Vitamin A | 0.2mg | 17% | |
| Iron | 0.9mg | 10% | |
| Calcium | 50mg | 10% | |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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