Bake O'clock Special: Halloween Cake How-To!
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
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past times Lyndsay of Coco Cake
I know. I'm a weirdo. Hairy witch CAT cake?
I actually don't similar the typical Halloweeny type trouble organization - orangish in addition to dark in addition to gory yucky bloody stuff. Why non drib dead on Halloween form of cute? Kind of hairy? I idea of making a warty-faced witch cake. But so I thought, who wants to seize amongst teeth into a witch's large onetime wart, fifty-fifty if it's inwards cake form? Instead, why non seize amongst teeth into a cute picayune fuzzy truthful cat face... Okay... that doesn't brand a whole lot of feel either.
Anyhoo... I acquaint to you, a Coco Cake how-to! Halloween it up, everyone!
You volition need:
1. Two layers of baked circular cake. Bake your cake inwards 2 circular cake pans according to a recipe's instructions, permit cool, score the cake amongst a serrated knife in addition to you're laid upwardly to go! I made an 8 inch dark chocolate cake.
2. iv cups of buttercream. You volition require to frost the middle in addition to sides of the cake plus accept plenty to piping pilus all over it, so iv cups should encompass it. I made vanilla buttercream in addition to tinted it light-green amongst a dab of gel colour.
3. H5N1 multi-opening piping tip
4. H5N1 piping bag
5. H5N1 cake board, cake stand upwardly or plate
6. Some fondant, for making the face, ears in addition to hat. You tin purchase pre-colored fondant, or purchase plainly white in addition to purchase some gel nutrient coloring to color the fondant. Fondant tin endure purchased at your local cake render store or arts and crafts megastore inwards the cake render section.
7. An offset spatula for frosting your cake - non crucial, you lot tin also role a butter knife!
Okay! Here nosotros go! I made a custom cake board past times cutting out a slice of polka point arts and crafts newspaper to the size of a 10 inch circular cake board in addition to glued it on top! I also made a custom Happy Halloween circular "flag" which I volition record to a toothpick in addition to plunk into the side of the cake 1 time it's finished.
Special piping tip: I telephone telephone this the "hairy" tip or the "grass" tip. I intend it's official refer is the multi-opening tip (BORING) ... you lot tin teach this at a arts and crafts render megastore inwards the cake section, or at a cake render shop! Or, online at a house like Scoop north Save inwards Canada, or Bake It Pretty inwards the U.S.A. of A!
I bought those horrid light-green disposable piping bags inwards bulk, but you lot tin also purchase them through the to a higher house sources. I require to teach some normal piping bags. Those light-green ones are so ugly for photos.
H5N1 drawing! I ever produce a picayune sketcheroo of my cakes. Heehee! H5N1 drawing is non bad every bit you lot tin refer to it every bit you're working. Or you lot tin freestyle it. Up to you.
Place 1 layer of your cake on your cake board. I ever blob some buttercream underneath to stick it to the cake board in addition to jibe it inwards house when I frost. You tin also tuck picayune pieces of parchment newspaper or wax newspaper only nether the cake so the cake board doesn't teach all buttercreamed out. Frost the summit of the cake layer evenly, every bit this volition endure the cake's filling.
Place the minute cake layer on top, serrated side down, lightly press downward into the buttercream. Now, starting at the summit of the minute layer, frost away!
Frost the entire cake. This is called the "crumb coat", where you lot trap inwards all those pesky crumbs amongst buttercream. Usually I chill the cake inwards the refrigerator at this indicate to laid the crumb coat in addition to so utilize some other layer of buttercream so it looks all smoothen in addition to non-crumby. However, since we're making this into a hairy cat, you lot won't meet the crumbs inwards the finally production so I didn't bother amongst frosting it further.
Snip the tip off of your piping purse in addition to house the multi-opening tip in. Fill 'er up, sir! I house the purse inwards a yogurt container for easy-filling. Twist the summit of the purse in addition to start squeezing out the hairy buttercream times!
Remove the parchment newspaper strips. Now, amongst the piping bag, mash out some pilus in addition to tart from the bottom in addition to piping a line of hairiness upwardly to the top. You tin do piping outset on a plate until you lot teach the hang of it if you lot wish. Go all the agency approximately the cake inwards this same way... so piping the summit of the cake, too!
Now you lot tin brand all the parts for your truthful cat face. Black whiskers, eyes, 2 circular circles for cheeks, a picayune pinkish nose, a tongue, a witch's chapeau in addition to 2 ears. To adhere the ears in addition to chapeau to the cake, I house wooden skewers into the ears in addition to hat, so plunk into the cake wherever I desire the ears in addition to chapeau to be...
Place all your fondant elements on the cake... piping some additional pilus onto the ears afterward you've seat the wooden skewered fondant ears inwards place... in addition to forthwith you lot have...
Side view! Pretty hairy, eh.
Hope you lot all enjoyed the cake tutorial!
Happy Halloween... !
xo Lyndsay
I know. I'm a weirdo. Hairy witch CAT cake?
I actually don't similar the typical Halloweeny type trouble organization - orangish in addition to dark in addition to gory yucky bloody stuff. Why non drib dead on Halloween form of cute? Kind of hairy? I idea of making a warty-faced witch cake. But so I thought, who wants to seize amongst teeth into a witch's large onetime wart, fifty-fifty if it's inwards cake form? Instead, why non seize amongst teeth into a cute picayune fuzzy truthful cat face... Okay... that doesn't brand a whole lot of feel either.
Anyhoo... I acquaint to you, a Coco Cake how-to! Halloween it up, everyone!
You volition need:
1. Two layers of baked circular cake. Bake your cake inwards 2 circular cake pans according to a recipe's instructions, permit cool, score the cake amongst a serrated knife in addition to you're laid upwardly to go! I made an 8 inch dark chocolate cake.
2. iv cups of buttercream. You volition require to frost the middle in addition to sides of the cake plus accept plenty to piping pilus all over it, so iv cups should encompass it. I made vanilla buttercream in addition to tinted it light-green amongst a dab of gel colour.
3. H5N1 multi-opening piping tip
4. H5N1 piping bag
5. H5N1 cake board, cake stand upwardly or plate
6. Some fondant, for making the face, ears in addition to hat. You tin purchase pre-colored fondant, or purchase plainly white in addition to purchase some gel nutrient coloring to color the fondant. Fondant tin endure purchased at your local cake render store or arts and crafts megastore inwards the cake render section.
7. An offset spatula for frosting your cake - non crucial, you lot tin also role a butter knife!
Okay! Here nosotros go! I made a custom cake board past times cutting out a slice of polka point arts and crafts newspaper to the size of a 10 inch circular cake board in addition to glued it on top! I also made a custom Happy Halloween circular "flag" which I volition record to a toothpick in addition to plunk into the side of the cake 1 time it's finished.
Special piping tip: I telephone telephone this the "hairy" tip or the "grass" tip. I intend it's official refer is the multi-opening tip (BORING) ... you lot tin teach this at a arts and crafts render megastore inwards the cake section, or at a cake render shop! Or, online at a house like Scoop north Save inwards Canada, or Bake It Pretty inwards the U.S.A. of A!
I bought those horrid light-green disposable piping bags inwards bulk, but you lot tin also purchase them through the to a higher house sources. I require to teach some normal piping bags. Those light-green ones are so ugly for photos.
H5N1 drawing! I ever produce a picayune sketcheroo of my cakes. Heehee! H5N1 drawing is non bad every bit you lot tin refer to it every bit you're working. Or you lot tin freestyle it. Up to you.
Place 1 layer of your cake on your cake board. I ever blob some buttercream underneath to stick it to the cake board in addition to jibe it inwards house when I frost. You tin also tuck picayune pieces of parchment newspaper or wax newspaper only nether the cake so the cake board doesn't teach all buttercreamed out. Frost the summit of the cake layer evenly, every bit this volition endure the cake's filling.
Place the minute cake layer on top, serrated side down, lightly press downward into the buttercream. Now, starting at the summit of the minute layer, frost away!
Frost the entire cake. This is called the "crumb coat", where you lot trap inwards all those pesky crumbs amongst buttercream. Usually I chill the cake inwards the refrigerator at this indicate to laid the crumb coat in addition to so utilize some other layer of buttercream so it looks all smoothen in addition to non-crumby. However, since we're making this into a hairy cat, you lot won't meet the crumbs inwards the finally production so I didn't bother amongst frosting it further.
Snip the tip off of your piping purse in addition to house the multi-opening tip in. Fill 'er up, sir! I house the purse inwards a yogurt container for easy-filling. Twist the summit of the purse in addition to start squeezing out the hairy buttercream times!
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Now you lot tin brand all the parts for your truthful cat face. Black whiskers, eyes, 2 circular circles for cheeks, a picayune pinkish nose, a tongue, a witch's chapeau in addition to 2 ears. To adhere the ears in addition to chapeau to the cake, I house wooden skewers into the ears in addition to hat, so plunk into the cake wherever I desire the ears in addition to chapeau to be...
Place all your fondant elements on the cake... piping some additional pilus onto the ears afterward you've seat the wooden skewered fondant ears inwards place... in addition to forthwith you lot have...
HAIRY GREEN WITCH CAT CAKE!
Side view! Pretty hairy, eh.
Hope you lot all enjoyed the cake tutorial!
Happy Halloween... !
xo Lyndsay
Lyndsay is a self-taught bakery in addition to subsequent enthusiastic blogger. She loves makin' foods in addition to bakin' goods, in addition to shares her stories, recipes in addition to foodstuffs on ! Her other move tin endure constitute on her cake blog: Coco Cake, her H2O ice cream blog: Ice Cream past times Coco Cake in addition to her nutrient oddities in addition to delights blog: Trompe Chomp!
