We had a blast working with Hotel Transylvania 3 to turn cake into our favorite friendly vampire! Get tickets here!
Ingredients:
- sheet cake
- frosting
- fondant
Tools:
- knife
- rolling pin
- cookie cutters
- frosting spatula
- piping nozzle
Instructions:
1. Once you have your large sheet cake, cut out the head shape.
2. Use the excess corners of the sheet cake to form the cape of your vampire.
3. Apply the base coat of frosting to the head and cape sections of the sheet cake.
4. Add another layer of frosting to face to form the cheeks and nose.
5. With a rolling pin, roll out your ball of black fondant.
6. Using an oval-shaped cookie cutter, punch out the eye shape.
7. Use the rounded edge of the cookie cutter to cut out the bottom in the same piece of black fondant.
8. Repeat steps 5-7 with the ball of white fondant. Note: use a smaller cookie cutter so when you go to overlay the two pieces you can still see the black outline.
9. Repeat steps 5-8 for the second eye.
10. In the white of the eyes, overlay a circle of blue fondant (for the eye color), a smaller circle of black fondant (for the pupil), and an even smaller circle of white fondant (for the reflection).
11. Repeat step 10 for the second eye.
12. Follow the same steps you did with the eyes, but on a larger scale to create the mouth. You’ll be using maroon and black fondant.
13. For the teeth cut out a thin rectangle. Start a little thicker to begin with because you want to cut out the top to give it a slight curve to fit the curve of the mouth.
14. With a knife, lightly score the shape of each tooth.
15. Overlay two small triangles. These will be the fangs.
16. Roll out a ball of mixed light and dark green fondant.
17. Hack: squeeze a snowflake-shaped cookie cutter to make a tropical leaf shape.
18. Punch out the leaf.
19. With the back of a butter knife, score the designs of the leaf.
20. Using the small end of a piping nozzle punch out 4 holes in the center of the leaf.
21. Transfer the leaf to the cape section of the cake.
22. Get creative and experiment with making different tropical leaf and flower shapes to add to the cape.
23. Final touches: add some black fondant for the hair and eyebrows, and some peach colored fondant to match the frosting on the face for the ears.
