(photo on its way!)
You will need:
- 6oz / 150g cooking margerine or butter (room temperature)
- 6oz / 150g caster sugar
- 6 oz / 150g self raising flour
- 3 eggs
- 1 large bar milk chocolate (about 10-12 oz/ 350g)
- a pack of chocolate fingers (make sure they are same chocolate as cake i.e. plain/white/milk)
- icing ( the easiest is to buy a pack of ready mixed coloured tubes from the supermarket)
What to do:
- heat the oven to 175 oC
- grease and flour* an 8 inch cake tin
- place all the ingredients in a mixer or bowl and mix well
- spoon into tin and bake for 18-22 minutes - cake should be golden brown and springy to touch
- cool on a wire rack
- break chocolate into chunks and place in microwave-proof bowl
- zap for a minute, see if chocolate is melting, and zap again if necessary. Do not over cook or it will go stiff
- pour melted chocolate over cooled cake and do the next bit before the chocolate sets -
- now the fun part! make sure you have some small spice jars/pots handly to rest the spiders legs against while drying (It's easier than it sounds)
- place some icing on each end of the chocolate fingre, one at a time, and, taking 2 fingers, poition them as the picture, making sure the top of the leg pushes into the melted chocolate so they will stick together.
- position the pots to stop the legs falling
- decorate as you wish!
* this means that you grease the tin and then coat with a fine layer of flour to stop the cake sticking
One of our new members told us about a game she played as a child - simple and cheap!
Just wrap the kids up in loo rolls like a mummy (taking care not to cover nose and mouth and not to restrict movement) - they will love it and although it's messy it will create lots of fun.
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