The Amazing Spiderman!

My son turns 5 tomorrow.  (Cue sigh...)  As I sit here and reminisce about 5 years ago tonight and how giddy my husband and I were to welcome our first child the following morning, I am also recovering from his party we had this afternoon!  He had such a great time with all his friends.  I let him do all the choosing of party supplies, games, and...the cake design.  Yep, I gave up control (which is not like me).  He chose the classic Wilton cake pan in the spiderman mold.  (Cue BIG gulp...)

So I've done cakes...quite a few actually.  BUT they really scare me.  I get anxious and stressed.  They're just so big and that buttercream frosting is thick and just different from my cookie frosting.  Well, Ben got his cake and mom got a little bit of stress!  :)  Actually, once I got started, it wasn't so terrible, but I have such a respect for cake bakers!  I love to make my boy happy with baked goods so it was so worth it to me!

 He chose chocolate.  He's takes after me!

 So I figured when I turned it over, I would see all the

details molded into the cake.

See those lines for webbing?

Boy, was I wrong!

No lines, no details, what do I do?

This was when I got a little stressed

and started texting friends.

My friend (and babysitter to my kids), Ellie, told me to

treat it like a big cookie.

Brilliant.

That is exactly what I did.

I followed the directions and covered the sides in white.

Okay, that was not so bad!

Now for the design that was supposed to create

Spiderman!!!

I sat with a picture right next to my work area.

Eyes first.

See that yellow tool?  That is a scraper.

It's the most useful thing I have in my cookie tool box.

I use it all the time.  I have three.

Get it here.

 I started with the face webbing.

My first thought was,

"I have to do this all over the cake??!"

It took a bit longer than I thought it would.

That scraper was used A LOT!  I wish I would have taken pics of the scraped off icing.  Lots of mistakes and fixes!

Let's just say, I am so glad it was a 4pm party and...

I didn't get to wash my hair!

Sorry, kids.

After the black, it was time for blue.

To do this, I used a #14 star tip.

Spiderman was coming together!

The red totally completed him!

I decided to do some fun dots on the border

instead of the white shells that Wilton suggests.

Ready to fight crime!

I had a very happy birthday boy!

(He didn't even realize mom didn't have

time to make cookies!)

Happy Birthday to my Sweetness!

xoxo