Looking for Spiderman Cake Ideas? Whether you’re simply looking for inspiration to place an order with your local baker, or whether you want to recreate one of these cake designs yourself, you’re in the right place. Here, you’ll find 14 amazing Spiderman cake decorating ideas, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them.
How to find a Spiderman cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Spiderman cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two more advanced techniques. This is a great place to grow your cake decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these Spiderman cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use?
To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.
Adapt your favorite cake recipe
There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have three options to tweak your favorite recipe :
- You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
- You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a flavored homemade whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could also personalize your frosting.
Here, you can really have fun and create a cake that suits your needs. For example, you could also play with the color of your cake. For a Spiderman cake, black and red checkered cake layers would be a fun idea.
Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.
Look for a cake recipe
Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind :
- The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
- Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.
Use my cake recipe recommendation
Finally, you could try the delicious recipe I recommend. I firmly believe everyone should have a trustworthy chocolate cake recipe, and my chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting is perfect for beginners. I’m sure you’ll love it.
What you will love about this recipe :
- It has a perfect chocolate flavor.
- It’s a really easy recipe.
- It has a great texture.
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake ideas presented to you. I’ve also included quick video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some advice and quick video tutorials to explain the more complicated techniques to you
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect Spiderman cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Spiderman Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Spiderman cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Spiderman Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
As a beginner cake decorator, cake toppers are your best friend. They easily take your cake to the next level.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Spiderman cake toppers.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your cake scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you.
- Chill your cake again for 30 minutes.
- Cut the top edges of the cake with a hot knife to get sharp edges. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Finally, decorate the cake with your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Knowing how to cover a cake with buttercream is the most important technique for a cake decorator. You’re slowly building a strong foundation.
Blue Spiderman Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
This Spiderman cake design is also perfectly suited to beginners.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Edible gold leaves and a thin paintbrush to apply it (one that you only use for baking).
- Spiderman-themed cake toppers.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Chill your cake again for 30 minutes.
- Cut the top edges of the cake with a hot knife to get sharp edges.
- Then, with your paintbrush, transfer gold leaf bits from the sheet of paper to the cake. Don’t use your fingers, it will stick to it.
- Finally, decorate your cake with your Spiderman cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Gold leaves can give a festive touch to any cake, while still being beginner-friendly.
Sober Spiderman Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- Spiderman cake toppers.
- A piping bag with a star piping tip (similar to the 4B of the 6B by Wilton).
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you.
- Then, place your sprinkles on the wet buttercream.
- Chill your cake again for 30 minutes.
- Next, apply little dots of buttercream using your star piping tip wherever you think it suits.
- Finally, decorate the cake with your cake toppers following the pictures or your heart’s desire.
What you’ve learned :
As you can see, you don’t have to do the most intricate buttercream piping, to get a stunning cake.
If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas to recreate, you can check out the other birthday cake ideas lists.
Spiderman Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 8 Spiderman cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Spiderman’s Web Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
What is more iconic than Spiderman’s web? This Spiderweb cake will definitely impress any guest.
A little guidance
Recreating this spider web is an easy and fun but messy process. Simply heat marshmallows in the microwave for about 30 seconds, pull them apart with your hand (I always wear gloves for this), and place them on your cake. You can watch this quick tutorial if needed.
Black And White Spiderman Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a Spiderman cake more suited to a teenager, this dark Spiderman cake is perfect for you.
A little guidance
To recreate this painted effect, simply scatter thin layers of buttercream around your chilled covered cake and smooth it all. To get a clearer idea of the process you can watch this YouTube tutorial.
Elegant Spiderman Cake
Difficulty level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
This beautiful red and black cake design would perfectly be suited to an older kid or a teen’s birthday.
A little guidance
To recreate this layered buttercream, simply cover your cake with buttercream as usual. Then, let it chill until the buttercream sets. Next, apply a second layer of buttercream on the bottom half of your cake and let it chill again. Finally, apply your last buttercream layer on the bottom half of your second layer.
Spiderman’s Mask Cake.
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Once you’ve acquired the basic techniques of cake decorating, it is important to learn to cover a cake in fondant. This cake design would be great practice.
A little guidance
My three tips when covering a cake in fondant are the following:
- You should pay extra attention when preparing your cake. Make sure it’s leveled, and your buttercream (or ganache) should be very neat to get a cleaner finish.
- You should roll your fondant to a thickness between 1/8th inch and 1/4 inch.
- You should keep in mind that your first attempt probably isn’t going to be flawless, but it’s perfectly fine because practice will make your technique perfect.
Finally, here’s a detailed video tutorial, that’ll teach everything you need to know about this pro
Simple Tiered Spiderman Cake.
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re having a big party, you should consider tiered cakes. Before moving on to the next level, it’s an important type of cake to master.
A little guidance
When making tiered cakes, especially if they’re as high as this one, you have to pay extra attention to the structure of the cake. Therefore, you should always use a sturdy cake board for each tier. You should also support the bottom tier with dowel rods or bubble tea straws cut to the height of the cake. Finally, you should ensure each tier is leveled before stacking them.
Spidermen Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
All tiered cakes don’t have to be as big as the previous cake design. This Spidermen cake is more suited to smaller parties, while still being as stunning.
A little guidance
You should follow all the tips provided with the previous cake design. Moreover, if you don’t want to recreate the figurines with fondant, you can always buy Spiderman toys and use them as cake toppers. Just make sure they’re not too heavy for your cake.
Multiverse Spiderman Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
This Multiverse Spiderman cake probably is the cutest on the list. While you could also buy the Spidermen cake toppers, recreating them with fondant would be a good challenge. The advantage of fondant is that you can have a lot of fun and recreate your little Spiderman in any position or color you want.
A little guidance
If you want to give it a try, you could start by following this tutorial. Although, to be honest, you don’t necessarily need one, because using fondant to recreate figurines is pretty straightforward.
Flying Spiderman Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
This Spiderman really gives an impression of movement. If you’re not too bad at hand drawing, it can result in an impressive cake design.
A little guidance
To recreate the “flying” Spiderman simply use a paper pattern from Google Images, and cut out your fondant following its shape. Then, use an edible ink pencil to draw the details on it. Even if it looks fairly easy, it does actually require some notions of perspective.
Spiderman Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
Finally, you’ll find 3 complex Spiderman cake ideas for pro bakers.
3D Spiderman Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
3D cakes are a really good way to impress your guests. This Spiderman cake is particularly stunning, as the feeling of movement perfectly suits the theme.
3D Spiderman Tiered Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you want to make your cake even more showstopping, add your 3D effect to a tiered cake.
Spiderman’s Tower Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Finally, this realistic Spiderman cake is definitely from another world. If you want a cake that looks like a piece of art, this is the one for you.
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