Spiderman Cake

It has been a while since I have posted.  I have had a horrible cold that resulted in me bruising my ribs from coughing.  I haven't been able to do much, including house work. :/  Luckily for me I have an amazing husband that has taken over taking care of the house, the kids and me. :)  Who knew that bruising your ribs could be so painful?!

Pain aside, I had to get ready for my son to turn 6.  He requested a Spiderman birthday cake.  I wasn't too excited because I am NOT an artist.  My best art work in school consisted of stick figures.  But I try to make my boys happy, so I wasn't going to say no.  I think because I was under the weather and had the issue with my ribs, this cake gave me a little more trouble than it normally would have.  I had to run out the day of his birthday to get red frosting because mine went pink and wouldn't go red.  That is why I always do their cakes the day before! You never know what could go wrong. Now on to the cake...

Like his brother, Anthony requested a chocolate cake.  For my chocolate cake recipe click here.  I am looking forward to making something other than chocolate cake, because it seems to be all that I am making lately!!  But it is a really good recipe so it is ok! ;)  I used my frosting recipe for the blue frosting.  Click here for the recipe.  For the yellow, red and black frosting I used Wilton products.  You can click each color to see what I used.  I decided to buy the black frosting this time because it takes a lot of coloring and mixing to get true black.  I didn't think I had the strength to be doing that much mixing.  Because I knew I was doing such a small amount of yellow I decided to purchase that as well.  The red was the only one I wasn't planning on purchasing.  If you are planning on purchasing any frosting for decorating, I recommend the Wilton tubes, not the one in the can.  When I went to the store they didn't have the red in the tube so I was stuck.  The one in the can worked well for the bottom ribbon the cake, just not for the top.  Because it is in the can it comes out a little fast and makes bigger stars than I would have liked.  I chose to stick with star tipping because I like the visual affect. 

I put the cake on a turned over cookie sheet with tin foil...



I started with a 9x13 and frosted the whole thing blue.  I then used the black frosting with a round #4 tip attached with a coupler to do the outline of the Spiderman face (did I mention I am not an artist?!).  I then used the yellow frosting and star tip #16 attached with a coupler to fill in the eyes.  If you click on any of the items you can see what I used.

To fill in the face I used the red frosting and the star tip that was provided.  I also used the provided star tip to do the ribbons on the bottom.  I used the yellow with the round #4 tip to do the writing on the cake.  The end result was....

And a happy 6 year old! :)  I hope you enjoy my recipes!  I also hope that my attempts at cake decorating will inspire you to try.  It is lots of fun (when you are not in pain), and the look on your kiddos face when you created something for them is so rewarding!!

Questions? Comments? I would love to hear from you!!

<3 Ashley