Sunday, January 17, 2010
Spiderman
This cake is made from a 10-inch 3 layer chocolate cake and an 8-inch 3 layer vanilla-butter cake. I carved each tier to be more narrow at the bottom and tilted on top. The 10-inch is covered in white fondant with black, blue and red stripes. The 8-inch is covered in black fondant with white buttercream spiderwebs piped on it. The Spiderman face is hand-cut from red fondant... I drew the webs on the face using a food marker and added fondant eyes. NOTE: The black fondant was a nightmare to deal with this time. I have noticed in the past that black fondant has a different texture than other colors (so does red) and I theorize it has something to do with how much color you have to add to get it black (or red)... after fighting with a batch of my own black fondant, I gave up and searched the web for another recipe... and found one on Cake Central (posted in response to someone having the same problem I was having with reg. black fondant). I rushed out to walmart to get the items I needed (thanking my lucky stars that walmart is open 24/7!!). It came together beautifully, thank goodness! I am adding the recipe for "True Black Marshmallow Fondant" to the bottom of my blog with my other recipes for future reference... and I highly recommend it!
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