Have I ever mentioned how much I loathe spiders? Abhor. Revile. They strike terror into the very core of my being.

“Guess what Mom!? I’m having a spider cake for my birthday!”

Oh yes, he just did.

For this terrifying treat, I used a strawberry cake mix.

Not sure why he wanted the innards to be pink?

I baked two 9″ rounds and then stacked and roughly trimmed into a kind of dome shape.

Did I mention that I was sick and bordering on a DaQuil overdose?

That knowledge suddenly makes this impressive, doesn’t it?

Mix up any random buttercream recipe and color to suit.

He wanted orange and black. I couldn’t find black and didn’t have time to order from Wilton’s, so I made some nasty green-gray-brown stuff that he totally dug.

For the eyes I used my kitchen scissors and snipped the ends off a large marshmallow.

Genius. OK, maybe the medicine was making me easy to impress.

Use a bit of frosting on the sheet to anchor black licorice “legs” and viola!

Kids don’t judge.

Rachel blogs at The Henway.

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