The theme for my 2017 Halloween is inspired by Manic Panic's Shocking Blue so I thought, why not whip up some cauldron cakes with bubbling blue brew!!? The making of these kooky-cool cakes took a moderate amount of time and the process was very, very simple. It was such fun for myself and my girls, and your kiddos will love to make and eat these adorable cakes too!
You will need:
A basic white boxed cake
Blue food coloring
White premade fondant (or you may choose to make your own)
Black food coloring
To start these cakes, I made sure I used a cupcake pan that had very deep cake sections.
I used a basic white cake from Pillsbury.
Of course, hindsight is always 20/20!! I found this awesome cake mix after we made these cakes, and in my opinion, this color is much closer to Manic Panic's Shocking Blue! Using this mix will also alleviate a bit of work time as well, although the girls loved dripping the food coloring into the batter!! Mental note made for next time! :-)
The cupcakes should rise in the oven and have nice, rounded tops like so. These make the perfect cauldrons once they are covered in black fondant!!
To make the colored fondant for our cauldron cakes, we used a simple white fondant I found from my local Wal-Mart. Warm a desired amount of the fondant according to the package directions until it is pliable and you are able to easily mold and stretch it in your hands.
For the outside of the cauldrons, I mixed a liberal amount of black food coloring into the fondant. BE SURE TO WEAR GLOVES (it is VERY messy), and make sure to powder-sugar or cornstarch your countertops to prevent sticking and/or staining.
Continue working the coloring into the fondant until it is a blackish-grey color resembling a cauldron. Hand the fondant off to eager hands for further kneading! ;-)
Once the color was completely mixed in, I rolled out the black fondant. Again, I dusted the countertop and also the rolling pin with powdered sugar to prevent sticking.
We used the rim of a glass with a circumference slightly larger than the tops of the cupcakes to cut out circles, one for each cupcake. You may also use a circular cookie cutter.
Place the circles on the rounded parts of each cupcake.
After the bottoms were placed, I rolled out and cut strips of black fondant for each cupcake.
Each strip is long enough to wrap around the cupcake, and wide enough to cover the rest of the exposed portion of the cupcake.
With a butter knife or fondant tool, work the fondant until the two pieces of fondant are fused together and smooth, and the cupcake is completely covered. Reserve a bit of black fondant, and set aside along with your covered cupcakes.
We rolled some of the blue fondant into little balls of various shapes to represent bubbles, and the rest of the fondant was rolled out to create the brew in each cauldron. Before I placed the bubbles and brew onto the cauldrons, we made rims and handles for each cauldron from the black fondant we reserved from earlier. Simply roll the small pieces out until long enough, trim...then use your fingers to carefully mold onto the premade cauldrons. Next, add the "brew" to each cupcake. When adding the "brew," I made sure to allow some areas to "drip" over the edges.
This was such a fun project to complete with the kiddos! My girls loved kneading the fondant and especially rolling out the little bubbles!! Again, I recommend that you use gloves when initially adding the food coloring, especially while working with the black. Once the food coloring is mostly worked into the fondant, you may hand it over to the kiddos to knead and there is much less transfer of color onto the hands.
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If you would like to see these cakes featured in my 2017 Halloween Tablescape inspired by Manic Panic's Shocking Blue, please visit the post on my blog Parsimonious Décor Darling here.
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Until next time,
Happy Haunting!!
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