Spider Web Chocolate cake. This chocolate spider web cake features three layers of chocolate cake frosted in a simple chocolate American buttercream and decorated with melted marshmallow spider webs! The chocolate cake is flavored with cocoa powder and intensified with a touch of instant espresso powder. Chocolate cake decorated with a spider web design made from piped white chocolate ganache. The main thing is the decoration - my lame attempt at spider web is just a suggestion. Lots of sugar bats, ghosts, witchy sprinkles can be thrown onto it instead.
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We are using an eggless chocolate cake as the base.
I wanted to do something fun with cake in a jar and also wanted to add a little somethin somethin to the outside.
You can cook Spider Web Chocolate cake using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Spider Web Chocolate cake
- It's 150 grams of self raising flour.
- It's 200 grams of castor sugar.
- You need 3 of eggs.
- Prepare 200 grams of unsalted butter.
- Prepare 50 grams of cocoa powder.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1 tsp of chocolate extract.
- Prepare 145 ml of heavy cream.
- It's 100 grams of dark chocolate.
- You need 50 grams of white chocolate.
So I found a way to write messages or pictures on the inside of the jar as well as add lots and lots more. I have seen countless VARIATIONS of spider web cake decoration/ cupcakes decoration and this was my spin on that idea. There is NO need for fondant or fancy tools. Try our easy to follow chocolate spider web cake recipe.
Spider Web Chocolate cake step by step
- Preheat the oven to 180C and grease and line 2 x 20 cm round baking tins with baking parchment. Beat together butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one by one and beat well continue. Add vanilla extract in between..
- Fold in the flour, cocoa powder and chocolate extract until combined. Then spoon the mixture carefully between each tin and place in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the cakes are risen and golden brown and when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean..
- To Make the ganache, take a heat proof bowl and add broken clearly chocolate and cream. Melt over a pan of simmering water. Stir occasionally. Once done remove from the heat and let it cool and thicken..
- When the chocolate ganache has thickened, cover the top of one cake and place your second cake on top. Pour the rest of the ganache over the cakes, ensuring cover from all sides..
- Melt the white chocolate gently over a pan of water. Spoon this into a piping bag(I have used sandwich bag) and make circular lines over the cake. Take a cocktail stick and drag lines outwards from the centre to form a spider web. Enjoy this delicious and spongy chocolate spider web cake..
Stir over medium-low heat until butter and chocolate have melted. These Halloween Spider Web Chocolate Cupcakesare super easy to make and so striking - the kids will love helping to make these Halloween Spider Covered in dark or white chocolate, then swirled with a simple spider-web pattern, these cakes are sure to go down a treat on your Halloween table. ยท Halloween Spider Web Cake is a perfectly spiced and moist pumpkin cake with black chocolate buttercream frosting and covered with marshmallow spiderweb topping. The perfect spooky Halloween cake to celebrate the season. Combine the flour, cornflour, sugar, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda in a large mixing bowl and mix well. Chocolate buttermilk cake layers are frosted with chocolate buttercream and a contrasting white spider web design.