Monster Cake Tutorial {recipe how to}

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Here’s a monster cake tutorial that’s completely adorable. It’s a fun recipe how-to that’s perfect for a party! Did I mention that I have never baked a round cake, never baked a cake in a mixing bowl and never made modelling chocolate let alone iced with it??! No? Well here we go….

I picked up white candy melts and food colouring from Michaels. Basically you microwave the chocolate according to the package instructions then gently mix in 1/2 c light corn syrup. This made enough chocolate to completely cover my cake and decorate it with extras.

I spread out my chocolate mixture on a saran wrap lined baking sheet, covered with more saran and let sit for 3 hours.

Meanwhile I used a stainless steal mixing bowl as my cake pan, put it in the oven and crossed my fingers. I baked my classic white cake at 325 degrees for 1 and a 1/2 hours!!!! That’s how long it took for the center to be completely done.

Thankfully I remembered to grease and flour my mixing bowl so the cake came out beautifully! {BIG sigh of relief}

I started working with my modeling chocolate again and divided it up into sections that I colored using paste and regular food coloring.

I worked the food coloring into my chocolate, covered with saran and put into an air tight container. Apparently it will last for months like this.

I ‘dirty iced’ my cake with butter cream. Ha ha {dirty ice} ever watch Cake Boss??? I get a giggle every time they say ‘dirty ice’. 😛

Then I rolled out my largest section of modeling chocolate {dark green} and draped it over my cake. This was actually fairly easy {whew}! I cut off the excess with a butter knife and smoothed seems with my fingers. I used cornstarch to keep my chocolate from sticking to the counter while rolling it out – I think that I may have used too much as I had little white dots in my dark green… oh well… that’s why he’s a tester!