Scary Spider Birthday Cake

** The fly!! **

This was a special request from my son for his birthday.....he knew exactly what he wanted.  It was fun to make and the spider and fly were special creations by Tony (my creative director).  The cake is covered in fondant icing and the decorations are all made of fondant icing as-well.  The spider was surprisingly easy to make and is the first 3D character that Tony and I have made.  The web was made by passing the fondant icing through the spaghetti attachment of our pasta maker (which has never been used for pasta......lol).  The web threads all came out long and even, which was the key to making it look good, as you could string the webs in long lengths over the cake......there was no need to join bits together.  NOTE:  The fly was a last minute creation made to cover an imperfection in the fondant icing covering the cake......as it turned out after we made one fly we realised that a couple more would have been even better.  Next time!!