Spooky Happenings

This has to be the most fun cake we've ever made! We made it for an 11th birthday but it being halloween meant we could make it just a little bit gooey and spooky. This meant a cauldron full of eyeballs, green slime and skulls was the order of the day!

We started by making the skulls from chocolate as well as small pumpkins to hold sweets. The board was up next with a stone floor effect and some logs to rest the cauldron on. The cauldron itself was quite interesting to bake. Rob ended up using both of our spherical tins, suspending the smaller one inside the large one with barbecue sticks and then weighing it down with baking beans. It worked a treat, although next time we'll take the smaller tin out before the cake cools down and sticks to it!

 

Covering the cauldron was also a rather tricky job luckily we had many hands helping and soon got it done. Once it was covered it was time to have fun with the green slime (green buttercream) and start placing the eyeballs and skulls to look suitably spooky. To finish things off we added a couple of monster tentacles and brains!