Devils Chocolate Food Cake (with spiderweb frosting)

Ingredients Cake:

Ingredients Frosting:

6 tbs butter
1 cup cocoa powder/drinking chocolate
2 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/3 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla essence
white chocolate (as much or as little as you want depending on the size of your cake.

Method Cake:

Preheat your oven to about 180 degrees (c), gas mark 4, 350 degrees (f)
Melt your cooking chocolate, you can do this in the microwave or in a plastic bowl over a pot of boiling water. (Bakers Tip: don’t let the bottom of the bowl sit in the water as this can burn the chocolate).
Mix your butter & sugar together in a mixing bowl until creamy.
Stir in the melted chocolate, when that is mixed in add your eggs & continue mixing.
Sieve cocoa powder, flour & baking powder. Mix well
Add your milk & vanilla essence, mix well & transfer to a greased cake tin.
Cook in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes. (Bakers tip: if you put a knife into the middle of the cake & it comes out clean than the cake is done. If there is cake mixture on the knife leave it to cook for a few minutes longer, or until no cake can be seen on the knife).

Method Frosting:

Beat your butter in a mixing bowl until creamy.
Add cocoa powder & icing sugar to the bowl & mix well.
Slowly add your milk & vanilla essence.
When your cake is cooled down you can add your frosting.
Melt white chocolate the same way that you melted your chocolate for your cake.
Pour your white chocolate into an icing bag with a very thin piping nozzle.
Pipe circles from the centre of the cake to the outer edge.
With a tooth pick drag out lines from the centre of the cake to the outer edge.
You can then ad a spooky little critter, I added a spider with the remaining white chocolate & gave him candy eyes