**The Art of Creating a Spooky Cobweb Cake**

When it comes to creating a spooky cake, few decorations can evoke as much fear and fascination as cobwebs. In this article, we will guide you through the process of creating a stunning cobweb-covered cake that is sure to impress your friends and family.

To start, you'll need to prepare your cake for its transformation into a creepy masterpiece. Begin by applying a layer of ganache to the top and sides of the cake, using an offset spatula to ensure smooth, even coverage. This will provide the foundation for your cobweb design, as well as help the marshmallow mixture adhere to the cake.

As you work on your cake, remember to maintain a cool head - or at least, a calm hand! The key to creating a convincing cobweb lies in controlling the texture and elasticity of the marshmallows. Simply heat them up in short intervals, stirring constantly, until they reach a pliable state. Then, take your trusty wooden spoon and get ready to work some magic.

As you manipulate the hot marshmallow mixture with your hands, you'll begin to see it transform before your eyes. The sticky, elastic texture will start to form into intricate webs that can be draped across the cake in every direction. It's almost like a game of limbo - how low can you get the marshmallows without losing control? Be patient, and don't be afraid to add more heat if needed. Remember, practice makes perfect, so don't worry if it takes a few attempts to get the hang of it.

With your cobweb base now firmly in place, it's time to introduce the star of the show: Mr. Spider! Using a piping bag filled with melted chocolate, carefully pipe on the body and legs of each spider. You can customize their design to your heart's content - from classic eight-legged spiders to more exotic creatures like velvet cats or bow-tie-wearing gentlemen. The choice is yours!

As you add the finishing touches to your spiders, don't forget about the little details that will make them truly terrifying. A few strategically-placed Luster Dust markings can go a long way in creating an air of menace. And when it comes to designing your cobwebs, think outside the box - or rather, the cake pan! Consider adding some candy melts in bold colors or even piping on some creepy crawlies to really drive home the spider theme.

Finally, it's time to bring all these elements together and create a truly unforgettable cake. With its sticky cobweb base, adorable yet spooky spiders, and rich chocolate ganache, this cake is sure to be the centerpiece of any Halloween gathering. So go ahead, grab your friends and family, and take on the challenge of creating a Spidey-approved cobweb-covered cake that will leave everyone screaming with delight!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back to how to cake it Halloween is on the way and I'm really excited today I'm going to make a candy filled cake that's perfect for either your Halloween party or to make after Halloween with all your leftover candy whatever that is and make sure you watch to the end of the video cuz I'm going to use something really delicious to make cobwebs usually when I dress up for Halloween I go all out I'm All or Nothing but it would be a little bit hard to bake in an astronaut costume so just some simple cat ears a little tail and of course the necessary cat Bow Tie uh I do have one question when did cats start wearing bow ties are they always going to like a black tie affair what what is with cats for all the step-by-step instructions ingredients and tools to make this Halloween scaredy cake head to my website how toake it.com to make my Halloween scurity cake I started by making my 8 lb portion of chocolate cake and dying it black I used an entire container of chefmaster black gel food coloring I just added it to the batter right at the end and then I divided my batter into three 8 in round pens I'm going to remove my cakes from my pens and begin to level them I am leaving these layers whole I'm not cutting them in half half cuz I want there to be a lot of cake along with the buttercream and all that sweet candy inside this is half of my recipe of Italian mering buttercream which you can make yourself just click the link in the description below I have a whole video on it and I'm just going to dye it with some orange gel food coloring this is going to be fun I want it to be really Orange it's Halloween just add some little by little and stir it into your buttercream my buttercream is the perfect shade of orange look my t-shirts going to match my cake today I'm just going to put this aside and move on to making black chocolate ganache to make this ganache all you need is some dark chocolate I chopped some dark chocolate and I'm also using what are known as CA these are not chocolate chips even though they look like chocolate chips this is high quality cature chocolate and then I have some whipping cream which I'm about to boil in the microwave a wooden spoon to stir it and then some black food coloring to add at the end I'm just going to bring my cream to a boil in the microwave all you need to do is pour this hot cream into your chocolate and then cover it and let it sit for about 10 minutes I'm going to clean up so I'm just going to remove my cake pan and start to stir my ganache slowly just stir your ganache until you see it coming together in this Rich sort of velvety chocy mixture I'm going to pour this entire container of black food coloring into this ganache and stir it in until it looks completely black I'm going to use this ganache today in two different ways I'm going to use it runny like this to drizzle inside my cake layers on top of my candy and then I'm going to use it set so that it's thicker and more spreadable to ice the entire outside of my cake I recommend making the whole batch letting it set and when you get to the drizzling just heat a little bit up and drizzle away I'm going to put this aside and get all of my Halloween candy I'm going to be using candy corn which I think is so pretty some gummy worms some Halloween jelly beans and then some black and orange Smarties and these are just little CH whoops these are just little chocolate what is wrong with me just stay there I'm going to unstack my black chocolate cake layers and sh them with simple syrup and you can do that too you can pick up one of these babies at my website how toake it.com this bottle is awesome and while you're there sign up to become a VIP member of how to cake it because you can get all my videos like this one before they hit YouTube that's very VIP I actually feel like this cat is VIP that's why the bow tie so I'm going to take about half this buttercream and dollop it into this cake and spread it around I'm going to keep my layers of buttercream pretty pretty thick for this cake I'm going to use a mixture of all of this candy I'm just going to throw it in now I'm going to drizzle some of my onset ganache I'm doing this to help stick the candy down add more flavor and then my cake layer that I'm going to lay on top has something to stick to as well because the cand is so smooth time for more buttercream candy time time for more black chocolate ganache drizzle top and final layer going on now press down a little just make sure everything is secure in your cake wow this cake is ready to be crumb coated but first I'm going to just take a little offset spatula and I'm going to scrape away the excess buttercream as well as push in any candies or worms that are poking out to keep them all inside the cake I actually made this ganache grainy and sludgy thank you for the word Justin by adding less cream and more chocolate and also using liquid food coloring rather than gel because the end result of this cake is going to be like a cake that's been sitting in a haunted house for 50 years and you just found it but you're going to eat it anyway against your better judgment going to take my ganache and press it against the side sides of my cake to hold in all the crumbs and buttercream and candy and everything good and then chill it for half an hour so we can give this cake a nice black ganache coating my scaredy cake is nice and chilled it's ready to ice when I touch the ganache doesn't come off of my finger I have more of my black ganache right here and I'm just going to Ice Ice Baby I'm starting with the top of my cake and my offset spatula now I'm going to ice the sides of this cake with more ganache going around the cake holding the spatula perfectly straight you should feel your spatula touching the cake all the way up the cake that will help you know that you're icing your cake straight pull in the excess ganache from the top of the cake just use again this Outer Edge keep it flat okay come on we're going to the fridge for 30 minutes now I know I promised you that I would show you a fun way to make cobwebs all over this cake what you're going to need is Mini marshmallows and a wooden spoon and a microwave I'm just going to heat these marshmallows for about 30 seconds at a time you'll want to stir your marshmallows quite a bit because they're really hot and you don't want to burn yourself we're going to be using our hands but already you can kind of see what's happening gets really elastic and hard to pull apart but this is kind of what we want definitely make sure it's cool enough to touch cool enough to put on your chocolate ganana now I'm going to use both hands to pick up this marshmallow wow wow wow how do I let go of the marshmallow holy mackerel I can't even describe this to you look at this okay I need to put this down somewhere I can't get this marshmallow off my hand and pull it between my fingers in every direction just pull and then you want to sort of wrap this all around your cake in every direction don't think about it too much your marshmallow mixture might start to get too cool to pull apart just put some more back in the microwave and keep going oh and you might get stuck to your table and need your friends to rescue you thank you Jocelyn Go With It Go With It Go where the marshmallow takes you and then it won't leave you uh just wait right here I'll be right back I finally got my hands clean I need to add the star of the show to this cake the gentleman responsible for all these cob webs Mr spider I just unwrapped one of my little chocolate balls now I'm going to cut off a little bit of the ball not half a little less than half but just cut a flat bottom then I have some chocolate in a Piping Bag I'm going to pipe a little head on the spider and then I'm going to pipe some legs for my spider I think they have eight legs I've been told Little V shapes really open V's I'm piping the legs separately because I want them to harden and that way they can stand up a little I'm going to make a few more spiders I'm not sure how many I'm going to use but I want to have a few to choose from my spiders are set I'm just going to place them on my cake and add their terrifying legs this is about as close as I'm willing to get to a spider okay more spiders fighting for the cobweb territory the great thing about our marshmallow cobweb is that it's so sticky your spiders will just adhere to your cake I used a little bit of more melted chocolate under the body of the spider the legs are just sticking by themselves I think I need to give these spiders a bit of a design and some character make them a little scary going to use a little bit more chocolate and a paintbrush and going to add my little red sprinkle eyeballs this one's Katie this one's Brian this one is um Paulo they're International sweaters I'm going to add one final detail to these spiders just a little bit of red Luster Dust with my fingertip and I'm just going to make a little marking on their back you can have lots of fun designing your spiders with all kinds of colors of Luster Dust you could pipe some colored candy melts on their backs well spiders are all different all over the world so whatever kind of spider you're used to this is what happens when I try and make something scary they end up adorable that was really scary was it did you did I honestly scare you that was creepy are you making fun of me or was it scary no I swear to God that was creepy come on Spidey guys can you can you see this looks like worms crawling out of the dirt it's like a graveyard cake I'm still going to eat it though I need to get all this candy buttercream black chocolate cake ganache goodness in one bite you know why this cake is perfect to eat on Halloween oh I should had fangs that would have been scary there's something scary about velvet cat ears in a bow tie guys get it St where's my prop director see you next Tuesday on how to cake itwelcome back to how to cake it Halloween is on the way and I'm really excited today I'm going to make a candy filled cake that's perfect for either your Halloween party or to make after Halloween with all your leftover candy whatever that is and make sure you watch to the end of the video cuz I'm going to use something really delicious to make cobwebs usually when I dress up for Halloween I go all out I'm All or Nothing but it would be a little bit hard to bake in an astronaut costume so just some simple cat ears a little tail and of course the necessary cat Bow Tie uh I do have one question when did cats start wearing bow ties are they always going to like a black tie affair what what is with cats for all the step-by-step instructions ingredients and tools to make this Halloween scaredy cake head to my website how toake it.com to make my Halloween scurity cake I started by making my 8 lb portion of chocolate cake and dying it black I used an entire container of chefmaster black gel food coloring I just added it to the batter right at the end and then I divided my batter into three 8 in round pens I'm going to remove my cakes from my pens and begin to level them I am leaving these layers whole I'm not cutting them in half half cuz I want there to be a lot of cake along with the buttercream and all that sweet candy inside this is half of my recipe of Italian mering buttercream which you can make yourself just click the link in the description below I have a whole video on it and I'm just going to dye it with some orange gel food coloring this is going to be fun I want it to be really Orange it's Halloween just add some little by little and stir it into your buttercream my buttercream is the perfect shade of orange look my t-shirts going to match my cake today I'm just going to put this aside and move on to making black chocolate ganache to make this ganache all you need is some dark chocolate I chopped some dark chocolate and I'm also using what are known as CA these are not chocolate chips even though they look like chocolate chips this is high quality cature chocolate and then I have some whipping cream which I'm about to boil in the microwave a wooden spoon to stir it and then some black food coloring to add at the end I'm just going to bring my cream to a boil in the microwave all you need to do is pour this hot cream into your chocolate and then cover it and let it sit for about 10 minutes I'm going to clean up so I'm just going to remove my cake pan and start to stir my ganache slowly just stir your ganache until you see it coming together in this Rich sort of velvety chocy mixture I'm going to pour this entire container of black food coloring into this ganache and stir it in until it looks completely black I'm going to use this ganache today in two different ways I'm going to use it runny like this to drizzle inside my cake layers on top of my candy and then I'm going to use it set so that it's thicker and more spreadable to ice the entire outside of my cake I recommend making the whole batch letting it set and when you get to the drizzling just heat a little bit up and drizzle away I'm going to put this aside and get all of my Halloween candy I'm going to be using candy corn which I think is so pretty some gummy worms some Halloween jelly beans and then some black and orange Smarties and these are just little CH whoops these are just little chocolate what is wrong with me just stay there I'm going to unstack my black chocolate cake layers and sh them with simple syrup and you can do that too you can pick up one of these babies at my website how toake it.com this bottle is awesome and while you're there sign up to become a VIP member of how to cake it because you can get all my videos like this one before they hit YouTube that's very VIP I actually feel like this cat is VIP that's why the bow tie so I'm going to take about half this buttercream and dollop it into this cake and spread it around I'm going to keep my layers of buttercream pretty pretty thick for this cake I'm going to use a mixture of all of this candy I'm just going to throw it in now I'm going to drizzle some of my onset ganache I'm doing this to help stick the candy down add more flavor and then my cake layer that I'm going to lay on top has something to stick to as well because the cand is so smooth time for more buttercream candy time time for more black chocolate ganache drizzle top and final layer going on now press down a little just make sure everything is secure in your cake wow this cake is ready to be crumb coated but first I'm going to just take a little offset spatula and I'm going to scrape away the excess buttercream as well as push in any candies or worms that are poking out to keep them all inside the cake I actually made this ganache grainy and sludgy thank you for the word Justin by adding less cream and more chocolate and also using liquid food coloring rather than gel because the end result of this cake is going to be like a cake that's been sitting in a haunted house for 50 years and you just found it but you're going to eat it anyway against your better judgment going to take my ganache and press it against the side sides of my cake to hold in all the crumbs and buttercream and candy and everything good and then chill it for half an hour so we can give this cake a nice black ganache coating my scaredy cake is nice and chilled it's ready to ice when I touch the ganache doesn't come off of my finger I have more of my black ganache right here and I'm just going to Ice Ice Baby I'm starting with the top of my cake and my offset spatula now I'm going to ice the sides of this cake with more ganache going around the cake holding the spatula perfectly straight you should feel your spatula touching the cake all the way up the cake that will help you know that you're icing your cake straight pull in the excess ganache from the top of the cake just use again this Outer Edge keep it flat okay come on we're going to the fridge for 30 minutes now I know I promised you that I would show you a fun way to make cobwebs all over this cake what you're going to need is Mini marshmallows and a wooden spoon and a microwave I'm just going to heat these marshmallows for about 30 seconds at a time you'll want to stir your marshmallows quite a bit because they're really hot and you don't want to burn yourself we're going to be using our hands but already you can kind of see what's happening gets really elastic and hard to pull apart but this is kind of what we want definitely make sure it's cool enough to touch cool enough to put on your chocolate ganana now I'm going to use both hands to pick up this marshmallow wow wow wow how do I let go of the marshmallow holy mackerel I can't even describe this to you look at this okay I need to put this down somewhere I can't get this marshmallow off my hand and pull it between my fingers in every direction just pull and then you want to sort of wrap this all around your cake in every direction don't think about it too much your marshmallow mixture might start to get too cool to pull apart just put some more back in the microwave and keep going oh and you might get stuck to your table and need your friends to rescue you thank you Jocelyn Go With It Go With It Go where the marshmallow takes you and then it won't leave you uh just wait right here I'll be right back I finally got my hands clean I need to add the star of the show to this cake the gentleman responsible for all these cob webs Mr spider I just unwrapped one of my little chocolate balls now I'm going to cut off a little bit of the ball not half a little less than half but just cut a flat bottom then I have some chocolate in a Piping Bag I'm going to pipe a little head on the spider and then I'm going to pipe some legs for my spider I think they have eight legs I've been told Little V shapes really open V's I'm piping the legs separately because I want them to harden and that way they can stand up a little I'm going to make a few more spiders I'm not sure how many I'm going to use but I want to have a few to choose from my spiders are set I'm just going to place them on my cake and add their terrifying legs this is about as close as I'm willing to get to a spider okay more spiders fighting for the cobweb territory the great thing about our marshmallow cobweb is that it's so sticky your spiders will just adhere to your cake I used a little bit of more melted chocolate under the body of the spider the legs are just sticking by themselves I think I need to give these spiders a bit of a design and some character make them a little scary going to use a little bit more chocolate and a paintbrush and going to add my little red sprinkle eyeballs this one's Katie this one's Brian this one is um Paulo they're International sweaters I'm going to add one final detail to these spiders just a little bit of red Luster Dust with my fingertip and I'm just going to make a little marking on their back you can have lots of fun designing your spiders with all kinds of colors of Luster Dust you could pipe some colored candy melts on their backs well spiders are all different all over the world so whatever kind of spider you're used to this is what happens when I try and make something scary they end up adorable that was really scary was it did you did I honestly scare you that was creepy are you making fun of me or was it scary no I swear to God that was creepy come on Spidey guys can you can you see this looks like worms crawling out of the dirt it's like a graveyard cake I'm still going to eat it though I need to get all this candy buttercream black chocolate cake ganache goodness in one bite you know why this cake is perfect to eat on Halloween oh I should had fangs that would have been scary there's something scary about velvet cat ears in a bow tie guys get it St where's my prop director see you next Tuesday on how to cake it\n"