Cobweb Cake

This is a quick Halloween cake I made the other day. All it is, is a simple white cake recipe baked in an eight inch round pan (well, actually I made two of these cakes). Then I used a simple, chocolate sauce to make the web. It either needs to be a thick chocolate sauce or a chocolate syrup so it will not run all over the place. Then I did the simple cobweb design. This "feathered" design is used to decorate many different cakes and squares, and isn't necessarily made to resemble a cobweb for Halloween. I used a squeeze bottle for the chocolate sauce and squeezed out circles, each one getting bigger. Then I used a knife to draw straight lines through the cake to create the web design. A simple and easy cake recipe. This is a simple chocolate and vanilla combination. Now that I look and think about it, the cake could have been flat-iced first before the chocolate sauce was put on for a sweeter cake and to make the design pop slightly more. Any flavor combinations could be used - white cake, chocolate fudge frosting, and icing sugar vanilla glaze; marble cake, vanilla frosting, and caramel sauce; or pumpkin cake, cream cheese frosting, and coffee sauce.

The only problem with using a squeeze bottle - the squeezes aren't always even. Especially when releasing the bowl and beginning a new circle, the sauce may come out in squirts, which is what you see on the left side.