{"id":32157,"date":"2018-10-06T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/?p=32157"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:21:55","slug":"spiderweb-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/2018\/10\/spiderweb-cake.html","title":{"rendered":"Spiderweb Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spiderweb Cake – how to carve buttercream icing to make a spooky spiderweb cake design. So easy and no need to pipe! A new Halloween tutorial by our contributor\u00a0Erin Gardner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As I\u2019ve stated a number of times in many other cake decorating tutorials, I\u2019m not a fan of piping. I envy those with a steady hand and firm resolve to pipe, but I am not one of them. So when I had the idea for a simple but spooky Halloween cake involving a sparkly candy spider, I had to figure out how to make a web for her to live on that didn\u2019t involving piping lots of tiny icing lines on the side of a cake. (Is there anything worse?!) Of course, I could have rocked Carrie’s original Marshmallow Spiderweb Cake<\/strong><\/a> technique from 2012… but it was time for something new!<\/p>\n

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Sometimes when I\u2019m presented with a decorating challenge I try to think about things in opposites. If I don\u2019t want to apply more buttercream to achieve a design, I\u2019ll take it away! Buttercream carving is an idea that\u2019s been floating around Pinterest boards and Instagram feeds lately. The cake artists behind Tortik Annushka shared a cake design which involved carving circles of different depths out of layers of multiple colors of buttercream. Erica O\u2019Brien\u2019s buttercream pinstriping technique (now a decorating staple which you can learn here<\/a><\/strong>) involves removing channels of buttercream with a comb and then filling in the empty spaces with a new color. My very simple spider web idea was born from those same concepts. The result is a creepy but cool technique easy (and fun) enough to do with your kids. \u00a0A real Halloween treat!<\/p>\n

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SPIDERWEB CAKE<\/strong>
\na tutorial by\u00a0Erin Gardner<\/a><\/p>\n

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