
Spiders web chocolate fudge cake
Serves 8
Prep time: 35 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Ingredients
225g plain flour
350g caster sugar
85g cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons bread soda
2 medium eggs
250ml milk
125ml vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
250ml boiling water
Chocolate buttercream
150g soft butter
130g icing sugar
50g unsweetened cocoa powder
Dash vanilla extract
Web design & spider
200g dark chocolate
100g white chocolate
150g black fondant icing for the spider
Method
- Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan/350F/Gas 4.
- For the cake, line the base of a 7” round loose bottom cake tin with parchment paper.
- Butter and flour the base and sides of the tin.
- In a mixing bowl of your Kenwood fitted with the K-beater attachment, add all the ingredients except the boiling water and mix.
- Once combined, carefully add the boiling water and mix until everything is dissolved.
- Pour this batter into the tin and bake in your preheated oven for 1 hour.
- Once baked allow to cool in the tin before removing.
- For the buttercream, again in the Kenwood bowl with the K-beater attachment, simply beat the soft butter, icing sugar, cocoa and vanilla together until soft & creamy. Set aside.
- Cut the cooled cake in half and sandwich with buttercream.
- For the spider’s web design, simply melt both chocolates, pour the dark chocolate on top of the cake and spread. Spoon the white chocolate into a piping bag and pipe on top of the dark chocolate in a spiral starting in the center all the way to the outside edge.
- Using a sharp knife, drag through the chocolate from the center outwards to create a web effect.
- Taking the black fondant. Roll one large and one small ball and 8 long legs. The small ball will be the head so you can add edible candy eyes or use white chocolate to create the eyes, Place the head and body on the cake and add the legs.
hi Shane,
just checking that tgere usbt a typo rw thw quantity of castor sugar. 350g for 125ml oil. Is this to balance the bitterness from 85g cocoa? Thanks
No typo 🙂