SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Favorite cake mix or recipe
- Creamy White Decorator Icing - 4lb tub
- Black Icing Color
- Black Jimmies
- Black Sparkling Sugars
- Candy Eyeballs Tackle Box
- Piping Gel
- Christmas Red Icing Color
- Red-Red Icing Color
- Supplies:
- 6"x 2" Round Pan
- Cooling Grid
- 9" Angled Spatula
- Ruler
- Disposable Decorating Bags
- Star Decorating Tip 1M
DIRECTIONS:
- Prepare your favorite cake batter recipe. Bake and cool three cake layers.
- Level, fill, stack and crumb coat cake.
- Tint icing. Mix 1/4 cup black jimmies and 1/4 cup black sugars together. Set aside. Using Black icing color, tint 1 cup icing black. Using spatula, ice 2 1/2" band around middle of cake. Immediately cover black band with sugar and jimmies mix. Reserve remaining black icing for later step.
- Ice cake. Prepare decorating bag with white buttercream. Cut 1/2" off tip of bag. Pipe icing around bottom half of cake, following outline of black band. Using spatula, smooth icing. Repeat on top half of cake.
- Add eyeballs. Using remaining black icing, attach candy eyeballs to black band of cake.
- Decorate cake. Using Christmas Red and Red-Red icing colors, tint 1/2 cup piping gel red.
- Prepare decorating bag with red piping gel. Cut 1/4" off tip of bag. Pipe gel along top and bottom edge of white buttercream.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 1M and reserved black icing. Pipe small swirls around top edge of cake.