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Hi! In this tutorial I'm going to show you five very easy ideas to decorate Halloween cakes
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This first technique is messy but fun! Melt marshmallows for 30 seconds in the microwave
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and then pinch the warm, gloopy marshmallows and stretch them to make thin strands
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which you can then wrap around your cake. Your cake needs to be cold for this so that the strands
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of marshmallow don't cut into the frosting. If you dip your fingers in water first the marshmallows
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won't stick to your hands as much but it's quite fun to get messy for this! Wrap the marshmallows
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randomly around the cake, playing around with the height of each hand to change the angle that
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the marshmallows go onto your cake so they all overlap and tangle up like a spider web
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You can go over the top of the cake the same way, stretching the marshmallows to make strings
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or push all of your fingers together and then slowly spread them out to stretch the marshmallow
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out and then drape that over the top of the cake. This covers more of the cake so it's quicker
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and by doing it this way, with the marshmallows spread out into more of a sheet instead of
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strings, the marshmallows won't cut into the frosting on the top edge of your cake. You can't
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go wrong with this cake design because you're aiming for a mess so you can have a lot of fun
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in the process! Now we'll take a very unfestive cake and make it Halloween-y with two different
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techniques. The first uses a homemade stencil and a pre-made stencil. To make a creepy full moon
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stencil, cut two circles out of parchment paper, one circle slightly bigger than the other. The
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bigger circle will be the glowing ring around the moon. Press the bigger circle against the cake and
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spread white buttercream over it, carefully spreading from the outside of the circle towards
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the middle so you don't wrinkle the stencil or push buttercream underneath the outer edge of the
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circle. The frosting on your cake needs to have set for this so this cake has been in the fridge
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for a few hours for the frosting to firm up. Smooth the white buttercream with your offset spatula or
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a frosting smoother and don't worry if it's so thin that you can see through it because the purpose
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of this circle is just to create the light that shines out around the moon. We're going to make a
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bolder moon in the middle. Use an offset spatula or a paintbrush to smudge the outside of the circle
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so that it blends gradually into the rest of the frosting on the cake
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and next we need to create a bright moon within this glow. You can chill the cake again to set
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this white buttercream or go straight on to the next stencil, pressing it against the cake and
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spreading over the circle with white buttercream to create the moon. You'll probably smudge some
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of the previous white circle with your stencil but that's fine because we're going for a glowing
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blurry effect anyway. Smooth the buttercream, peel your stencil off and there's the moon
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Now I'm going to use a bat stencil and you can use the whole stencil or block off parts of the
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stencil using parchment paper so that only a smaller section transfers onto the cake like this
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or I'm about to use a different technique. I want just one bat and instead of risking smudging my
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moon or messing up the stencil and staining my white moon with black frosting, I'm taping some
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parchment paper onto a cutting board and then stenciling onto the parchment paper, doing three
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bats so that I have extras if my first one doesn't work. I have a tutorial on 16 ways to use stencils
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on cakes and if you're interested in that the link is in the video description. Peel the stencil off
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put the paper on the board in the freezer for 15 minutes and while that's chilling, if the frosting
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on the cake has set you can spread a tiny bit of buttercream onto the moon to make it sticky
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Then take your parchment out of the freezer and use a sharp knife to lift the buttercream
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off the parchment and press the bat onto the cake wherever you want it to go
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A simpler way to make this a Halloween cake is to add some candy. I'm matching the colour scheme
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with these purple and black sprinkles which I'm going to turn into lollipops to add to the top
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of the cake. I'm using a mould but you can pour this sugar mixture straight onto parchment paper
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for round but not perfectly circular pops and I have a full tutorial on sugar lollipops on
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britishgirlbakes.com with the recipe and the link is in the video description. You could use Halloween
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candy within the lollipops instead of sprinkles like orange and black M&Ms or candy corn
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When the lollipops are cool, after about 30 minutes, lift them up and push them into your cake
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To make these elegant gold pumpkins, pipe buttercream with a small star tip like a number
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199 to make a stem. Use a 1M star tip to pipe the pumpkin, piping four curved lines. This is
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parchment paper or you can use wax paper and the reason for piping onto this instead of straight
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onto the cake is so that you can paint the pumpkins gold. Put the pumpkins on the paper
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into the freezer for at least an hour to set and meanwhile, make some lollipops
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I'm using some gold paint using gold luster dust and a few drops of clear alcohol like vodka or you can use
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almond extract or any other clear coloured alcohol-based flavour extract will work
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Take your pumpkins out of the freezer and brush them with the gold paint, getting into all of the cracks and crevices with your paintbrush
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Now pipe or spread a bit of buttercream onto the frosting on your cake to act as glue
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Lift a pumpkin up with an offset spatula and press it into the buttercream. If you're enjoying this tutorial please click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my channel for a
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new cake decorating tutorial every week! If you wipe off any gold paint as you push the pumpkins
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against the cake, you can touch them up by painting on a bit more gold paint and you can
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also use your paintbrush to push the pumpkins around gently to wrap them more closely around
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the sides of the cake. I have a tutorial on how to decorate this cake from start to finish
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with the buttercream stripes and more details on the gold pumpkins and the link is in the
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video description. Finally, decorate the inside of your cake! Pour halloween coloured sprinkles
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into your cake batter before you bake it and the sprinkles will melt and dissolve, leaving splotches
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of colour in the cake. You can do this for cakes and cupcakes and add cookie dough filling made
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with halloween candy for an even more festive touch. For cupcakes, cut a hole out in the middle
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with a sharp knife and then roll a spoonful of cookie dough into a ball. The recipe is on
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britishgirlbakes.com and I have a full tutorial on how to make it and use it as a filling and
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frosting and the links are in the video description. Push the cookie dough ball into the hole and pipe
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frosting over the top for a delicious surprise when you bite into the cupcake. You can stack this cookie dough between layers of cake too, using a bit of buttercream above
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and below the cookie dough to make it stick to the cake. The layers of cake and cookie dough filling
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look irresistible and this cake flavour is definitely the most popular I've made for people
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Everyone loves cookie dough! I hope I've given you some ideas for decorating your Halloween cakes
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and I'd love to see what you make! Please tag British Girl Bakes in your photos on Instagram
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so I can see your creations! Thanks for watching and Happy Halloween! Remember to subscribe to
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my channel for a new cake decorating tutorial every week
