How to make a spiderman birthday cake

poppyscorner

Hi all,

Have just booked the room for DS1's birthday bash (free of course) and for his party we want to do a spiderman themed cake he will have about 30 kids there made up of family and friends have just about sorted everything else but thinking of the cake.

His party will have a spiderman theme and I have made cakes before using advice from here for example I made my stepdaughter a princess cake with a barbie in the centre with the cake resembling her skirt was a great sucess and looked fab have also done a caterpillar cake for a friend and that too turned out well.

So my challenge would be a spiderman cake obviously as budget tight as possible and also it would have to feed all the guests any one done this or have any good ideas for it something like this as a basic idea but also open to other ideas.
http://www.cakedesigners.co.uk/ its in the novelty section.

I have plastic spiderman figures if I could use them in any way I need an idiots guide when baking as I cannot cook with no receipe's

Thanks in advance
Poppy x

julesgr

Have you looked for a local sugarcraft shop, you can usually hire popular cake tins for about £5 for a couple of days.

Otherwise I would make a large round sponge, cut away bits from the edge to resemble a spider web, cover it in red icing and ddecorate with a black Icing pen to look like a web.

Pink.

Hi poppyscorner,

This link might help: Coolest Spider Man Cakes

If you click on the pictures there are directions on how to make the cakes.

Pink

meanmarie

Poppy...

DD4 made a Spiderman cake when DGS2 was 5 in October...she used rice paper and I think did a freehand drawing...any of the cakes on the thread Pink gave you could be copied onto rice paper which is laid on top of the already iced cake.

Good luck

Marie

ravylesley

I made ES a Spiderman cake a few years ago and it was quite easy.All you need is a round cake and some ready to roll icing and red food colouring and a box of those little writing icing tubes you can get in the bakery aisle.Find yourself a decent cartoon pic of spiderman and once you have flat iced the cake in red icing.Lay the pic on top of the cake and using a pin gently !!!!! out the main parts of the pic onto the top of the cake beneath.Then remove the pic and using the black writing icing tube fill in the pin pricks.Its a bit like dot to dot and its easy and really effective.Try it out beforehand on somegreaseproof paper though just to get the idea of what you are doing before actually doing it on the cake though

Lesleyxx

hmkn

I would either make a square/rectangular shape and decorate as a wall (chocolate butter icing) and place a plastic figure climbing it, or a couple of years ago, I did Spidermans face. Ordinary round sponge cake, trimmed slightly to be more face-shaped/oval, with red icing and black writing icing in a tube to draw the lines. I think I used black paper for the eyes!

I make all the childrens cakes, but my decorating skills are minimal, so it has to be something simple that looks effective and preferably achievable in butter icing! Spiderman looked pretty good.

HTH

HMKN

Angelraesunshine

I did the wall one for my friends little boy a few years ago was great for a large amount to feed. just made a very large sponge cake in a square covered in a grey icing used a ruler (sterilised) to indent the icing to make large bricks then i made a spiderman out of red & blue icing and used a icing writing pen( they are like ink) to draw the black bits all over him was easy to make did it in sections and it was the back of him so was no worry how it looked to much, but use could just use a plastic figure. i did white icing coming off one hand to do a web and then the childs name and age

MONEYMAKINGMUM

Wow some excellent cakes on those links! I love those 'scenes', you could use your
figures in something similar on a simple sponge building base.
I would be cautious using red icing, we made a ladybird b'day cake with lots of red icing & the darling kids suddenly went mental!
If you're sending kids home with cake in party bag this won't matter
You can water down red food dye & paint onto royal icing (test a bit 1st) for spiderman face. Would love to see a photo when you've done it.
hth