Halloween skull cupcakes
Halloween Skull
Take two cupcakes to create this spooky Halloween treat!
- Use Pettinice for painting
- Create the perfect shade of worm by mixing orange and blue!
Edibles
PETTINICE
- Black
- Blue
- Orange
- White
- Two cupcakes
- Bakels Chocolate Truffle, ganache or buttercream
- Water
Tools
- Rolling pin
- Sharp knife
- plastic straws
- paintbrush
- large Straw or oval cutters to emboss teeth
Other
Cake board
Remove the peeling paper from two of your cupcakes
Use your filling between the cupcake flat bottoms, and continue to fill the centre.
You can use a kebab stick to hold your cupcakes in place while you ice them. Completely ice and smooth and set aside.
Colour mix fondant a bone colour by mixing small amount of black and white to make gray, and then mix new shade with orange as shown.
Color comparison
If your icing has hardened, brush or spray lightly with water, fat, or diluted jam. Roll out your Pettinice fondant.
Download a printable PDF of all the cupcake projects by clicking here.
Cover with Pettinice fondant and begin to fan out the pleats
Continue using the fat part of your palm to smooth your Pettinice onto your cupcakes
Use a sharp knife to trim excess fondant, and tuck it neatly underneath.
Use your thumbs to indent the eye sockets.
Use your leaf tool to make nose indentations.
Next, indent below the eye socket to create a jaw line.
Use a pinched straw, or small cutter to quickly indent a line of oval teeth
Use a large ball tool, end of a small round rolling pin, or your knuckle to indent under the cheek as shown.
Use your dresden tool to define the jaw bone
OOooo cupcake skull is looking spooky!
Create deep grooves around the eye socket and create cracks
Create more cracks on the top of the skull
Add some water to Pettinice black fondant and use it for painting
Continue using your black fondant too add more shading
Paint shading by painting with a wet ball of black Pettinice
Be sure to not over saturate your skull with water when painting. If you use a light touch, your skull will dry much quicker.
So fast!
We created the worm colour by mixing Pettinice Orange and blue together as shown here
Roll a long sausage of Pettinice orange and blue mix
Create worm segment texture with a knife
Cut your worm in half and use a little bit of water to stick them in place.
Nina Blackburn owns Make Pretty Cakes in Auckland, New Zealand and is a proud Pettinice Ambassador. She is a confessed cake-a-holic who not only enjoys creating cakes, but also hosting and teaching cake decorating classes.
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