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Buddy Valastro's Spider Web Cake

Buddy Valastro's Spider Web Cake


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Ingredients

  • 2 1⁄2 cups cake flour, plus more for flouring the cake pans
  • 2 cups sugar, plus more for unmolding cake
  • 3⁄4 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 1⁄4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 4 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • Unsalted butter, for greasing two cake pans (about 2 tablespoons); nonstick cooking spray or vegetable oil may be substituted
  • Black piping gel (store bought)
  • White Buttercream

Yields: Makes two 9-inch cakes or 24 cupcakes

Preparation

Ice the cake in white buttercream, draw circles over the top with black piping gel, drag a toothpick (or knife) through each circle to create the spider-web look.

For more decorating tips watch the video above.

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