Little monster techniques Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Bettina starts by telling us how she has prepared her cakes – dummies in this case. Then it’s on to preparing the paste for modelling.

For the full tutorial and tools and ingredients see Monster gang

Bettina starts by making the legs for the witch without using any tools, other than a knife!

In this lesson, Bettina shows us how to make the witch’s dress, with some black sugarpaste and tiny little balls of green.

Here, Bettina shows us how to make the arms, using very similar techniques to making the legs.

Bettina shows us how to create a lovely cartoon head with cute simple features.

Bettina demonstrates how to make very simple hair. She then makes the hat and paints on the eyes using a toothpick.

In this lesson, Battina makes the body and the legs for the mummy using her craft knife to make the bandage markings.

Bettina finishes off the mummy, by adding the arms and the head, and finishing it all off with a little dust work.

Bettina makes a friendly little skeleton in a cartoon style complete with a plump belly.

Bettina makes the arms by creating all the different bones and putting then together with some edible glue.

Bettina now finishes the skeleton by making the head and adding it to the body using a plastic skewer and some edible glue.

In this lesson, we learn how to make a plump dragon’s body using a mixture of dark and light green sugarpaste, plus some white.

Bettina makes the arms and the tail for the dragon.

Bettina finishes off the dragon making its head, along with some scary claws and teeth.

In this lesson, Bettina makes the monster’s legs and body.

Bettina now makes the arms and green hands. She inserts a skewer leaving it out 1 inch for the head to fit onto.

She finishes off Frankenstein’s monster by making his head, complete with painted screws and a quirky face.

Bettina demonstrates how to make nice little pumpkins to decorate the board.

Now to make some more decorations – and this time it’s spiders! Don’t worry… they’re actually quite cute. They’re also very quick and easy to make. These would be great on a cupcake.

Bettina shows one last decoration in the form of mini bats, and she then finishes the cake with some black dust work.