Park Your Brooms! Halloween Cake Tutorial

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Today I'm going to share a FUN and festive "Park Your Brooms & Let's Party" themed Halloween Witch Cake!!

 

CUTE Free Halloween Cake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com featuring witch legs and brooms!! This "Park Your Brooms and Let's Party" themed cake is perfect for both kids and adults!

 

 

Last year I REALLY wanted to try a cake design that featured witch legs!

I know it sounds strange, but take a scroll through Pinterest in the fall, or your local home accessories or card shops and you'll notice that witches these days have a fabulous sense of fashion when it comes to their pointy black shoes & colorful striped tights.

I could never quite come up with a design that worked last year with this theme....but today, I had better luck! Now, I have a fun, and witch leg-tastic cake to share with you.

Here's what I did...

 

I started out with a basic 8" cake,  and some crusting vanilla buttercream like our Vanilla Buttercream recipe.  (I would recommend a crusting buttercream/frosting or ganache--anything that isn't overly soft or wet.)

Next,  frost however you'd like.  I gently waved my spatula up and down as I spun my cake around on the turntable to get the pattern that you see. I wasn't in the mood for smooth today. As a matter of fact, I prefer textured buttercream whenever I can get away with it. (So much faster!!) ;0)

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** A day in advance, I prepared the witch legs so that they would have extra time to dry.  I tinted some royal icing with Americolor Orange, Electric Green and Regal Purple.

Next, I sliced some long pretzel rods in half to create the basic witch legs.  I scraped a few of the obvious salt crystals off, and pushed a toothpick into the end of each pretzel.  Then, I painted them with the royal icing.  The royal icing was not runny, but thin enough to easily paint with.  It was a consistency a little thicker than Elmer's glue if that helps.

For me, this was easier and smoother than dipping my pretzels in chocolate.

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Next, I allowed the legs to dry in an inverted styrofoam bowl (styrofoam block or inverted paper cups would be good too).

If you'd rather let them dry flat on parchment paper, that should work too.  You'll just want to move them after the excess has run off to keep things neat.  The backs won't be visible anyway.  My legs were dry and ready to use after a day.  I probably could have used them sooner...but it's better to play it safe.

If you are into sugar cookies, I think that cookie legs would be adorable too!!

**No time for painting pretzel rods with royal icing? No problem. Simply roll snakes of colored fondant to create your witch legs. These could even be applied while the legs are slightly soft if you are not working in advance.

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

Next, I tinted some fondant (with tylose powder kneaded into it) using Americolor Super Black.  Gum paste is a good choice too.  

If you have neither, you could also just pipe your shoes in buttercream ...I'm sure there are other great alternatives for fun, witch shoes.

To make each shoe, I started with a ball of the black fondant, pinched the end to form the pointy toe of the shoe, and flattened what would become the back of the shoe.

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

Then, I used a knife to cut out a small wedge so that I could form the heel.  Flatten and pinch your way to your fabulous witch shoe.

Then, use your first shoe as a guide to create the other shoe.  (I like to lay one shoe on top of the other to check the size.)  

*By the way, I did not allow my shoes to dry for very long...(maybe about an hour)...but it always helps if you can work in advance.

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

Now for the fun part!  I used my black Americolor pen to create stripes, and I tinted buttercream for more accents on the tights and shoes.

All of the witchy details in buttercream were added with a Wilton Piping Tip 3 (but any of the small round tips would be fine!)   I also added a small shell border around the base of the cake using a Wilton tip 21.

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

Our witches are sassy with their short ruffled skirts ;0) -- I used my tinted buttercream piped with a tip 104 (petal tip) to create the ruffles.  (Make sure that the thin end of the tip is facing you as you pipe!)

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

Now for the next set of legs~  The basic idea is the same for all of these.  I pressed the shoe into the icing first, then "glued" on the leg just above it with a little fresh buttercream.

The shoe is not supporting any of the weight of the leg...the pretzel legs are locked into place by that buttercream "glue" that we added to the back.

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

 

Here's my second set of legs...and you can see a bit of my candy corn border and brooms!  (I demonstrated how to make brooms in my last witch themed tutorial.)

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

I added a third set of legs, a few sprinkles here, a few candy corns there and a cardstock/lollipop stick sign. And.........WE'RE FINISHED!  Wahoo!

Free Tutorial for a CUTE Halloween Party Cake featuring witch legs and brooms! So fun and festive! MyCakeSchool.com

I hope you enjoyed our witchy leg cake.  It was so much fun to make!   I had a few other sayings in mind that I was deciding between--these were my two runner ups:  "Witch Way to the Party?"... "Eat, Drink, & Be Scary" ;0) --There are lots of sites with fun sayings, but I think that I found the most on Etsy.

Let me know if you think of other ones...and especially let me know if you try the cake yourself.  You know that I would love to see!

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  1. Of all your Halloween themed cakes, this one featuring Witches legs is simply "the bomb!" I just love the whimsey you put into your cake designs. Thank you so much for sharing!

  2. I love this cake idea. I asked a bakery how much it would cost to duplicate this and and they told me it would cost $150. So, I am going to attempt to practice making the legs this weekend and then just buy a plain cake from Walmart and decorate it myself using your methods. Wish me luck.

  3. Hi Miya, Wow, that is a lot of money. I think you have a great idea using the plain cake from Walmart.....it will be great!!

  4. I LOVE this cake! I love the idea of witch legs. Last year I made a cake with a cauldron on top and witch legs sticking out of it. I wish there was a way to post a pic to show you. Any way, I think I might have to do this cake this year at our children's Halloween party.

  5. I saw this on Pinterest and thought it was mine! Wasn't that the cutest thing? I bought the magazine just for it. I just reposted it on Pinterest. It was really fun and not too hard. The kids loved eating it!

  6. Love this cake!!! I was thinking of using candy melts instead of royal icing for the witch leg, you think that will work as the have great Holloween colors this year...Thanks

  7. I just wanted to thank you for so freely sharing instructions on how to do this. I'm just a home baker, I love to bake and decorate but I need instructions and I'm making/donating cakes for my daughter in laws school (she teaches grade school). They are having a fall festival and cake auction to raise money for the school. A few years ago, one of cakes auctioned for over 150.00! I was thrilled!
    Anyway, thank you so much!

    1. Hi Meliss, thanks so much for your comment. That is awesome that you are donating cakes to help raise money for the school! xoxo

  8. Hi Meliss, thanks so much for your comment. That is awesome that you are donating cakes to help raise money for the school! xoxo