Haunted House Cake

What you need
How
To Make A
Haunted
House Cake
With a bit of imagination you can design and make your very own haunted house
cake. We have used a gingerbread house cutter set and modelling p a s t e
so that the house sets firm and can stand upright but if you want
to use black sugarpaste (rolling out icing) the house can be laid
flat on the cake and will look just as effective once decorated.
Embellish with spider webs, bats and spooky decorations to
complete the look.
Step 1 - Covering the cake
Dust your work surface and hands with a light sprinkling
of icing sugar then knead the coloured sugarpaste and
roll out large enough to cover the cake. Use your rolling
pin to measure the size of the cake then measure
against the sugarpaste so that you know it’s going
to fit neatly.
Lift the sugarpaste up on your rolling pin and
carefully place over the cake, smoothing it over
the sides (use a cake smoother to achieve a
really professional finish). Leave overnight
to set so that the sugarpaste is firm to the
touch and will not mark easily.
© Cake Craft World Ltd 2015
www.cakecraftworld.co.uk
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8” Round Cake
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12” Round Cake Drum
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Rolling Pin & Cake Smoother
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750g Sattina Regal Purple Sugarpaste
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250g Renshaw Black Modelling Paste
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Icing Sugar
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Make & Bake Gingerbread House Cookie Cutter Set
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Black Edible Ink Pen
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Cake Dowel & Circle Cutters
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Cornflour Pouch
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Bat Cutter
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Cocktail sticks
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Wood Effect Texture Sheet
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Small Amounts of Yellow, White, Black, Orange, Green
Sugarpaste
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Edible Glue & Paint Brush
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Fmm Picket Fence Cutter
Step 2 - Making the house
Step 3 - Black picket fence
Dust your work surface lightly with cornflour and roll some black
modelling paste out to about 5mm in thickness and cut out the
haunted house using a gingerbread cookie cutter set. While the
icing is still soft insert 2 cocktail sticks carefully into the bottom
edge and leave overnight to harden.
Roll out some black sugarpaste or modelling paste to about 2mm
in thickness and emboss with a wood effect texture sheet by
pressing it firmly onto the icing.
Once set, add a couple of purple shutters and attach squares of
yellow sugarpaste to the back of the house where the doors and
windows are. For the tiles on the roof, roll sugarpaste into small
balls and flatten one side between your finger and thumb before
attaching with edible glue.
Cut out enough fence panels to decorate the side of the cake and
attach with edible glue while they are still soft so that they curve
around the cake.
Step 4 - Spooky accessories
Step 5 - Standing the house on the cake
With any left over sugarpaste you can mould and cut out spooky
decorations like pumpkins, cats, ghosts and bats. Use a black
edible ink pen to draw on features like eyes and mouths.
Before attaching the house on to the cake draw some spider webs
on to the windows using a black edible ink pen (it’s much easier
to do this if the icing has set for a couple of hours and is not soft).
To make the path, roll coloured sugarpaste into small balls then
flatten between your finger and thumb to look like cobblestones.
Paint a line of edible glue along the bottom edge of the house
and firmly press the cocktail sticks into the cake so that it stands
freely. If the house wobbles and you are worried about it falling
over, attach a pumpkin or ghost behind it with edible glue to add
some stability.
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A moon can be cut out of yellow sugarpaste and attached to
the end of a cake dowel which can then be inserted into the
cake behind the house. To do this, cut out a circle of yellow
sugarpaste, brush over with edible glue then position the end
of a dowel onto it. Cut out a slightly smaller circle of yellow
sugarpaste and position over the dowel (this will hold the dowel
firmly in place once dry).
Leave overnight then decorate with a couple of cut out icing bats.
© Cake Craft World Ltd 2015
www.cakecraftworld.co.uk
Handy Tip: When making decorations out of sugarpaste or modelling paste, a cornflour pouch makes life
really easy! You can dab it on your hands to stop them
getting sticky or on your work top when rolling out icing
for shapes, models etc.
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