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    Home » Blog » Blog Tutorials » Themes and Occasions » Seasonal & Holiday » Fall

    Witchy Brew~ A Cake Decorating Blog Tutorial

    October 11, 2012 By Melissa Diamond 21 Comments

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    CUTE Witches Brew {free} Cake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

     

    Hi everyone! Today, our witches are cooking up something bubbly, oozy, & creeptastic over the fire. This was an idea that fell into place at the very last minute! Our original blog idea of Mini Wonder Mold cauldrons just didn't pack a punch. (Maybe we'll revisit that next year!) So, we had to quickly brainstorm for a Plan B. When in doubt, look for Rice Cereal Treats, floral wire, and lollipop sticks. I'm convinced that you can make anything work if you have these in your caking tool box ;0) -- What we wound up with was something fun, festive, and best of all~ easy to make!

    Here's a glance at some of our key ingredients...

     

    Witches Cauldron Cake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Free Tutorial- This cake is PERFECT for Halloween parties!I painted three long lollipop sticks with a "paint" made from mixing a little vodka into Americolor Chocolate Brown coloring gel.  The vodka speeds up the dry time. I painted the lollipop sticks with varying shades of brown (by changing the amount of vodka that I mixed into the color) so that it would look more like wood.

     

    Witches Cauldron Cake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Free Halloween Cake Tutorial! Next, I wound a piece of brown 20 gauge floral wire around the three lollipop sticks, close the top.

    Witches Brew! Learn to make a cute cauldron cake topper for your Halloween Cakes in this free tutorial!

    Then, I spread the sticks out enough that it could stand on it's own.  If your floral wire is too far down, the sticks will not cooperate.    Free Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Halloween Cakes! Next, I tightly balled up over half of a 22 g Rice Krispie Treat ~ this will soon become our cauldron!  (You could also use a small ball of styrofoam for this.)

    Free Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Halloween Parties! I rubbed a little vegetable shortening (for glue) onto the rice cereal treat ball and then wrapped it with pre-colored black fondant.  I use pre-colored to make life easier :0) --Today, I used Duff's brand.

    Free Witches Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Halloween Parties!

    Another look.  I rolled the wrapped cereal treat in my palms until I had a nice, smooth ball.

    Free Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Halloween Parties! Next, I twisted a toothpick all the way through the cauldron---I made two holes.  We're creating a passageway for our floral wire.  (The floral wire wasn't quite strong enough to drill a hole through the cauldron.)

    Free Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

    If you are a patient person, you could at this point allow the fondant to set up a while.  I am not a patient person, and so I went to the next step :0) --

    I threaded the floral wire (brown, 20 gauge) through one of the holes and then bent it on the end that would be the bottom of the pot.  You can see what I mean below.

     

    Free Witches Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Then, I repeated the steps above with the second hole & piece of floral wire. Below is the bottom of the cauldron.  The reason for bending the wires is so they won't pull out of the rice cereal treat later.

    Free Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

    Now we're getting somewhere!  The black snake of fondant that I've rolled out will be the lip of our cauldron.

     

    Free Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Perfect for Halloween Parties! Filling the cauldron with brew!  Here, I'm using buttercream tinted with Americolor Electric Green (Wilton tip 4).  I'm using Wilton's sugar eyes and giving them some creepy details with a food coloring pen.  The bones I'm using are melted white candy coating/bark piped into bone shapes. (I've demonstrated chocolate accents before--as in the Halloween blog linked HERE.)

    Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! The perfect Halloween Cake!

    Time to hang our cauldron!  Just bend the wires a bit to hook it on to your lollipop stick stand.  Fun Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Now...let's talk CAKE.  I've never gone for a hortizonal striped effect using buttercream before but have wanted to try for a long time.  Now, I'm kicking myself for not trying it sooner!  I've seen Sweetapolita & I am Baker's versions of this look & fell in love.

    I frosted a six inch, three layer cake using buttercream that I piped in three colors, using a Wilton tip 12.  (This is medium sized round tip.)   The more evenly you can pipe on your color, the happier you'll be later! (The not so perfect frosting job in the photo below should give you extra confidence.) ;0) --

    My colors are Americolor Regal Purple, Americolor Electric Green, & Americolor Orange. I piped the frosting on thicker than usual for two reasons...I didn't do my usual crumb coat first, and I knew I would be scraping some of the frosting back off again during the smoothing process.

    Learn to make a Witches Cauldron and tri-colored buttercream in this free Halloween Cake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Next, I heated my trusty bench scraper in very hot water...dried it off, and pressed it against my frosted cake as I turned the turntable.  My fear was muddled color...but to my surprise, the colors for the most part were on their best behavior!  I had a few air bubbles here and there that I smoothed with a Viva brand paper towel after the buttercream had crusted, but nothing to be worried about.  Whew! ;0)

    I frosted the top of my cake with purple buttercream, let it crust over, and smoothed with a Viva paper towel.  A swirly buttercream top would look great too!  

    Now, let's let the fire!  I used a piping bag filled with my "fire" colors of buttercream, and piped flames into my pretzel stick logs using a piping tip 21. (Any star tip would give a similar effect!)  I also piped a green bead border with my Wilton piping tip 4 along the top, and a purple bead border (tip 4) along the bottom.  I also happen to love sprinkles...and these Wilton Halloween confetti sprinkles gave our cake some extra personality!  I also added a little sparkle to the cauldron with silver hologram disco dust ;0)

    Learn how to make a Cauldron Cake Topper in this free tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Next, I made a chocolate skull using the Halloween ice cube tray that I bought at Michael's.  Probably not a necessity to our cake, but I had to justify this impulse buy ;0)   I just melted my white candy coating, poured it into the mold, and froze for about 10 minutes.  Then, I brushed on pearl dust  and painted the "eyes" and "nose" with black coloring gel.

     I gave my skull a little orange fondant bow (?) just because..and decided to write my message in black food coloring pen. I found this cute saying when searching on Etsy for "Witch Brew Signs"  ;0)

     We're finished!  Let's look at a closeup of our cauldron first....

    Free Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

    And now...the grand, spooktacular (yet cute) reveal!  ;0) --

     

    Cauldron Cake Topper Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

    Thanks for stopping by!~ If you decide to give this cake a try, I'd love for you to share links to your photos!

    See you next time....

     

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    1. Lynn October 20, 2012 at 11:10 am

      How did you make the flames? Did you put three different colours of icing in the one bag or did you just put Orange and stripe the bag with red/yellow? Looks great! Thank you

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    2. BeBe October 20, 2012 at 12:13 pm

      Hi Lynn, We put the three colors of frosting in one bag. We had small amounts of red and yellow and most of the bag was orange frosting.

      Reply
    3. Paula October 23, 2012 at 10:16 pm

      One of the most clever Halloween cakes I have ever seen. Totally adorable!!

      Reply
    4. Lynn October 24, 2012 at 9:15 pm

      Thank you BeBe, appreciate the response.

      Reply
    5. Norma October 25, 2012 at 1:10 am

      Well you know as usual =•} Just way too cute XXXX LOVE IT

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    6. dawn kimber October 20, 2013 at 5:18 pm

      love this cake ...

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    7. Donna October 20, 2013 at 6:37 pm

      Very cute!

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    8. Sandra Fleharty October 20, 2013 at 7:55 pm

      Awesome cake! I'm assuming that the bones are from Michaels?

      Reply
    9. Salima Ali October 20, 2013 at 8:24 pm

      This is so wonderfull I really enjoy looking at you make this brew.

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