Halloween Monster Cake

Instructions

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1. - Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake two 6 in.cake layers and cool completely.
2. -

   Tint icing. While the cake layers cool, tint icing. Combine Violet and Burgundy food coloring for purple shown.

   Divide icing into four 1 cup portions: tint light teal, orange, black and purple. Fit 3 piping bags with the tip 233, and fill one of each with teal, orange and purple icings. Fit 1 piping bag with tip 2 and fill with white icing. Set aside.

3. - Prepare cake. Trim layers to 2 ½ in. high. Fill and stack layers for 5 in. high cake. Crumb coat the cake and chill for 30 min.
4. - Prepare parchment strips. Cut three strips of parchment 18-20 in. long x 1 in wide. Wrap the strips around the cake evenly, one inch apart.
5. - Decorate cake sides. Carefully ice the open spots on the cake sides with black icing leaving the top uniced. Smooth the icing with the spatula, and over a piece of parchment or a baking sheet, sprinkle the black sprinkles over the stripes to coat all the exposed black icing. Reserve remaining black icing.
6. - Carefully peel off the parchment strips, revealing the uniced strips. Using even pressure, pipe tip 233 pull-out fur starting with purple icing on the bottom, orange in the middle, and the teal on the top strip going over the top of the cake.
7. - Decorate cookie eyes. Use a spatula to carefully split apart 5 sandwich cookies. Use black icing to pipe a penny sized dot on the cream side of the cookie and dip into the black sugar (save plain leftover cookie pieces for another use).
8. - Use a brush to remove any sugar that may stick to the cream of the cookie. Melt the 2 oz of black Candy Melts candy in a microwave safe bowl. Dip an end of the treat stick in the melted candy and attach to the back of the cookie “eyeball”.
9. - Place cookies on parchment paper and chill for 5 minutes. Insert into the top of the cake.
10. - Decorate mouth. Fill one piping bag with remaining black icing. Use black icing and tip 4 to pipe a mouth onto the orange stripe. Use white icing and tip 2 to pipe fangs.

Notes

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