After much dithering and planning and deciding, we chose a monster cake and this is how we did it...
All you need is one Victoria sponge and one load of buttercream in a colour of your choice. You then need a Wilton tip #233 pipons nozzle or a grass nozzle and some piping bags.
Once you have made your buttercream, sandwich your sponges togother and cover the whole lot in a thin layer of icing.
Then begin piping. You can either do short sharp bursts against the cake or if you just squeeze and go in random motions from above to create a crazy hair like creation. You can do this anyway you want and depending on how stiff your buttercream is you might find different techniques to work better.
For the eyes of your monster you can either just do roll out icing which we used for the mouths and the eyes of the smaller monster or you can do what we did and use cake pops...
Make one batch of cake pops and cover in roll out icing. We found the best way to do this was to wrap the cake in roll out icing, then smooth with a damp finger. Then roll in icing sugar and the palms of your hands so it becomes a smooth ball.
Then using black writing icing, draw on the pupils.
Using cake pop sticks attach the eyes to your cake and add any other features using fondant icing.
Then you are done!
Happy Baking!
Gx
