Once made as a tease for a woman who HATED spiders!
1 boxed cake mix
1 box green Jello, prepared, set and well-whipped
Black Frosting
6 black licorice sticks
2 large green gumdrops
Take your average cake mix. Bake it up in 2 metal bowls–1 bigger than the other. One unmolded, cut the bigger one (the “body”) in half, horizontally. CAREFULLY scoop out an adequate cavity in each half. FILL with well-whipped set green Jello, and reattach the halves. Frost black, arrange on serving platter. Use licorice stix as legs. Use 2 BIG green gumdrops and 6 little ones as eyes. When the cake is cut into, it spurts green goop, just like a real spider when stepped on. Why not add a red hourglass to the back and make it toxic?
NOTE:
Another good cake. I would modify this one by using two round pans, cutting a smaller circle out of one and using it as the head and filling the hole left over. Place the other layer on top, and trim to shape.