Simple spider man cake

Name: Simple spider man cake
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 120 g unsalted butter; 120 ml cooking oil; 300 g sugar; 4 eggs room temperature preferred; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 390 g cake flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 5 g salt; 300 ml buttermilk; 1 kg vanilla frosting; Red food coloring; Black food coloring; Blue food coloring

Marisa Reddy @cook_16792194

Simple spider man cake

Marisa Reddy @cook_16792194

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Ingredients

120 gunsalted butter
120 ml cooking oil
300 g sugar
4 eggs room temperature preferred
1 tsp vanilla essence
390 g cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
5 g salt
300 ml buttermilk
1 kgvanilla frosting
Red food coloring
Black food coloring
Blue food coloring

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Steps

1

Prepare oven at 180'c and prepare two deep square 30cm pans, by greasing well
2

In a bowl using an electric mixer, cream together the butter, cooking oil and sugar until creamy and well combined
3

Add eggs, to addition, stir in vanilla essence
4

In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt
5

Using a spatula alternate the flour mixture and buttermilk to the butter mixture, the batter should be smooth and completely combined, but avoid over mixing
6

Evenly divide the mixture into prepared pans and bake at 180'c, insert a toothpick to check if cake is ready, it should come out clean, no wet batter!
7

Allow cake to cool, then sandwich with white icing, and cover cake in full white icing, use the blue food coloring to get desired colour and pipe the web on sides
8

Pipe with black icing the outline off spider mans face, you can also download a printable picture and trace it on the cake, if your are not Confident to draw free hand
9

Full the face with red icing and then pipe the web with black icing, pipe small spiders and other designs to your liking