Just finished baking these spider Halloween cakes with my 3 year old. She is so pleased with them I'm not sure how she'll wait for her grandparents to come on Sunday to show them. The poor postman only just managed to get away without being dragged in to see Megan's cakes!
As well as the spider decoration on the top, these cakes also have a hidden jammy centre (and taste fantastic!)
You'll need...
For the cakes
- 12 Cupcake cases
- 2 large eggs
- 120g Self raising flour
- 140g Caster sugar
- 140g Marg or butter
- 30g cocoa powder
- Jam
For the decoration
- 12 Minstrels (or similar, like Maltesers)
- Fruit strings/laces (see footnote)
- (Around) 100g icing sugar
- 5 Blackberries
Make the cake mix...
- Pre heat the oven to 160
- Whack the caster sugar and butter into a large bowl and whisk until light and fluffy
- Next sift half the flour into the bowl
- Add an egg
- Mix well
- Add the remaining flour, cocoa powder and egg
- Mix well
Make now hide the jam!
- Put 2 teaspoons of the cake mix into each cupcake case
- Then, into the centre of each case add a teaspoon of jam
- Gently cover the jam with the remaining cake mix (but try not to overfill)
- Bake for 25-30 minutes
Now for the decoration
- Warm the blackberries over a pan of boiling water until they are soft and can be squashed into the icing sugar
- Keep stirring in icing sugar until you have bright purple lumpy icing that is spreadable but not too runny (add a drop of water if necessary)
- Ice each of the cakes and allow to set for a couple of minutes while you cut up the laces to make legs
- Place a Minstrel into the centre of each cake, and then push the legs gently into the icing around the Minstrel (using artist licence about how many legs each spider may have)
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| Spider (hidden centre) Halloween cupcake recipe |
(Little footnote on strings/laces.... I used real fruit strings(see image below) but these could be strawberry laces or liquorish
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