Three Eyed Monster Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Paul starts by showing all the components and how he goes about making an easy, solid structure. This stand can be used for a number of designs and it’s simplicity makes it easily replicated.

This is a great shape to practice your carving and as Paul always says, it’s not surgery so don’t panic if you cut too much off! Ganache is always there to stick the cake back together. Paul then adds a layer of ganache, refrigerates then adds a final layer before smoothing off.

This is quite an awkward shape to cover, but let Paul take you through the process where he ends up with a neatly covered half dome cylinder.

With the threaded rods, it makes covering the board a little more tricky with this one. Paul adds two panels each side before merging together where the legs stick out. He then goes on to shape then add the legs to cover the threaded rods.

You have some poetic license here or you can follow Paul as he creates ‘friendly’ monster feet.

Paul goes for a cute little tail, but you can adapt to the size and style you like to suit your design. He spends a bit of time merging the tail to the body, sharing a few techniques in the process.

Paul adds the ‘cute’ to the monster look as he adds three dopey looking eyes. Just using white, black and green sugarpaste and round cutters he creates an amazing look.

Using simple techniques, Paul creates the mouth, teeth and nose for our little monster. He first tries a darker blue nose, but didn’t feel that it worked so changed back to the body colour.

The little monster comes to life as Paul uses simple techniques to create the horns and spikes to go up the backbone.

Paul adds his little touches here by adding some shading dusts, the ribbon and some glaze to finish.

Other ideas which could be used for this type of design.

Everything a professional cake decorator needs to know regarding this design.