This adorable and playful Spider Cake is an easy and delightful dessert to serve at your next Halloween party. Moist bundt spice cake is covered with a rich cream cheese icing, and a giant frosting spider adds a touch of playfulness to this delicious dessert. This is easy to decorate, too! If you want to try your hand at a fun and playful centerpiece for a Halloween party, this is a perfect dessert to try.
Ingredients in Spider Cake
Take a little help from the grocery store with this cake and use a box mix. We dress it up with some extra ingredients to make it the moistest, most delicious spice cake you’ll ever try! Here’s what you need for the cake:
Frosting Ingredients
Now comes the fun part: the frosting and decorating! This rich cream cheese frosting complements the moist spice cake, and is just so cute too! Here’s what you need for the icing and decorations:
Cream cheese – two 8-ounce packages of regular cream cheese, softened to room temperature Butter – one cube, or half a cup, also softened. A good rule of thumb is to take the cream cheese and butter out of the refrigerator about an hour before you’re ready to mix the icing. That way it’s at perfect room temperature but not too melted. Dark cocoa – one third cup. We like to use special dark cocoa for help with color and for a super rich chocolate flavor for that cute spider. Powdered sugar – three to four cups, depending on how thick you like your frosting. Vanilla extract – two teaspoons rich vanilla extract balances out the flavor of the dark cocoa powder. Black food coloring – for your spider body and legs. 2 red hots – for your spider’s spooky eyes.
How to Decorate a Spider Cake
This cake is not only super yummy, it’s really easy to decorate! Even if you feel like a novice, you can feel like a pro making this whimsical spider come to life (figuratively, of course!) over this cake.
Decorating Options
For additional ideas to decorate this cake you could sprinkle black or colored sugar around the white frosting to create a web-like effect. Make mini-bundt cakes and decorate little spiders in the same manner you do on a big bundt cake. These would be darling for school parties or a birthday party. You can omit the white cream cheese frosting and dust the cake with powdered sugar before decorating with the black frosting spider. Add chocolate sprinkles to the top of the spider for added texture.
Optional Cake Flavors
Not a fan of spice cake? No problem. You can use absolutely any cake mix for this Spider Cake recipe. Try chocolate, red velvet, vanilla, etc. Just about any cake flavor will work great. Try any of these delicious bundt cake recipes:
Chocolate Bundt Cake Red Velvet Bundt Cake Lemon Bundt Cake Carrot Bundt Cake White Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake
Halloween Dinner Ideas
Turn your Spider Cake into a dessert for an entire Halloween themed spooky supper! Get creative by serving spaghetti with eyeballs (olives and cheese) mummy garlic cheese bread, or soup in a pumpkin. See our 25+Halloween Dinner Ideas for some spooky and scrumptious recipes. READ NEXT: 100+ Snack Ideas for Kids
How to Make a Spider Cake
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