Party Food... Cake Ideas
Giant Spider
Make a chocolate sponge cake in a large Pyrex mixing bowl. Split it in two and sandwich together with buttercream icing. Ice a large web onto a cake board or upturned tray. Upturn the cake so that the narrowest part is uppermost. Place the cake at one corner of the web. Cover with chocolate buttercream icing and add two large white marshmallows for eyes. Make legs from liquorice laces. Add baby spiders by icing eyes and legs onto chocolate teacakes.
Bucket of ooze!
Make a plain sponge cake in a large Pyrex mixing bowl. Split it in two and sandwich together with jam and buttercream icing. Using a tablespoon gently hollow the top slightly. Place the cake on a cake board or tray. Cover the outside of the cake with chocolate icing. Make buttercream icing and colour it yellowish green. Put the icing in the top of the 'bucket' and trail it down the outside and into a pool on the board. Add decorations and jelly worms and creatures.
Creepy Cake
Make two chocolate cakes, but bake them in metal bowls - a small one and a large one. You will have to "guesstimate" what the cooking time is. Once cooked, cool completely. Then take the larger one, and scoop out a good chunk of the middle so it is hollowed out. Make some green and red jello and, once firm, mash them separately, then put them both into a bowl. Add some yogurt (add yellow food colouring to it to make it yucky). Mix a bit of the yogurt in with the jello and fill the cake you hollowed out. Invert your serving platter onto the cake and the flip it over so the jello is inside the cake. Put the smaller cake beside, and frost both with black icing (add blue food colouring to chocolate icing) and decorate in a spider-y way with black licorice for legs, red candies for eyes, etc. When you cut into the cake, it will look like spider guts falling out!
