Monster Truck Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Time to strip your truck back to the chassis and making sure that it’s all going to work once the cake has been added.

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In this lesson, Paul adds the small structural pieces.

NOTE: Paul’s first attempt at the front arms doesn’t work out, but watch how he recovers and finds the perfect solution

A little more to it than you might think as you need to start to cover the plastic of the car to ensure the overall finished cake-look.

A generous covering in ganache will ensure that the structure stays firm so if you need some reassurance Paul will guide you through in this lesson.

There are a number of ways to add the fur, but using an extruder Paul creates the furry animal look to give our monster a cuddly look.

It’s looking more like a mop on wheels, but now it’s time for the tail and arms to go on where it starts to take the little monster look that we’re looking for. Careful not to put too much sugarpaste on or it won’t be able to move!

With this being a monster you pretty much have poetic license do make the shapes and sizes you like here. However, you need to watch and not take off too much of the fur in the process.

Getting down to the final characteristics it’s time to add the smile, teeth and horns and anything else that you’d like to see on your monster.

Choose whichever colours and styles you like, but here Paul chooses to go with a combination of purple and turquoise stripes.

In this case it’s a blue-eyed monster, but your prerogative if you want to make it green! Paul creates then paints the eye to continue the cute monster theme.

Nearly there! In this lesson Paul finishes the mouth then cuts the wheels out of flower paste allowing them to dry before adding them in the next lesson.

You can always leave the wheels as they are, but it’s a lovely little finishing touch to decorate them and why not continue the monster theme by adding eyes turning this into a five eyed monster!

Paul shares some other ideas for the monster truck cake tutorial.

Paul discusses everything a professional cake decorator would need to know about this design.

We take a look at some of the highlights from the monster truck cake lesson.