When I first stumbled upon the decorated cookie I was smitten! Meaghan posts the neatest and cutest ideas… she always inspires!
She was the creator behind the Oreo cakester petits four… one of my favorite ideas of all time. I have made quite a few of these in my day, and loved it more and more every time! (cant wait for Christmas!!!)
Except this time.
I had big ideas.
GRAND ideas.
And not such a grand execution.
I just might have to chalk up this post the the #FAIL pile. (love when Bridget does those, her failures are like what I strive for in success!)
I wanted to make spider petits fours.
I think they ended up being sort of a cross between a box elder bug and a black widow.
Without the red thingy.
To make these I used Oreo Cakesters, fondant, and a little sparkle stuff for the white ones.
I cut out strips of fondant for the legs, placed them over a piece of rolled up paper to dry, and hoped they would in fact dry.
These are after FIVE days of drying, and the legs still did not holdtheirshape. I think I might need to venture out of my safe fondant world and try some gum paste. We'll see.
Heh. I was tryin' I tell ya! Tryin' to make something of these weird spider thingies!
So then I remember I had some cupcakes left over from a charity event so threw a spider on it.
(are you blown away by my mastery of theEnglishlanguage? And that sentence structure… just exquisite!)
Better? Or worse?
Wow. Not so itsy bitsy huh.
(he he)
I have ONE more Halloween inspired cake that I would love to share, but this week is crazy busy with cookies orders, so I am just hoping like crazy I can get to it. I do not think I can wait one whole year to share. Although I probably should.
I may be out of ideas after that. 🙂
i love these! i wouldn’t categorize them under Fail at ALL, that is just crazy. What did you use for the little black cupcake stand?? is it meant to be a cupcake stand, or is it a candle holder? it’s super cute.
These are fabulous! They sure do look like spiders to me, great idea, LOVE IT!
Thank you so much for my shout out (sniffle, wipe tear)! You are SO beyond brilliant! And silly, these are perfection! I’m horribly afraid of spiders, and even I love ’em. Oh great, now I feel spiders all over me. Eek!
Sooo cute! I know you had trouble with the legs, but your spiders couldn’t be cooler!
Laura
Once again-absolutely adorable little spiders;) Question-do you make your own fondant or do you buy it??
Just buy some Wilton Gum-tex and add it to your fondant. It will make it dry harder and faster than fondant normally does. I think you’ll be happier doing that than using actual gum paste.
These are really cute, Amanda. They look great and I think the legs are perfect.
Soooo….we don’t celebrate Halloween here (lol, my kids become completely scandalized anytime we walk into a store with halloween decorations) and I’m not particularly a fan of spiders…but I’m sitting here trying to think of how I can incorporate this totally cute idea in a non-Halloween way.
BTW, where’d you get the black fondant? Did you buy it pre-made from Michael’s, order it online, or make it yourself. Because if you made it yourself I’d LOVE to know how you did it.
I had a heck of a time trying to make black MMF last year for Colton’s fire truck birthday cake…it ended up purple. And the more black Wilton gel I added, the purplier it got until it was like, deeeeeeeep Bubble Yum Bubble gum purple.
This is perhaps the first time that spiders have looks delicious…
Oh, i absolutely love u’r blog – its so inspirational … i’ve been visiting for a while now. Your work is great. And gumpaste isn’t so scary – it hardens much better than fondant.
i didn’t think it was possible, but those spiders are both creepy and cute at the same time. 🙂