Sugar Skull Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

We’re taking the term Sugar Skull very seriously! This delicious cakey creation is 100% edible! Topped with yummy chocolate roses, filled with colorful orange and purple buttercream and covered in a colorful design! Anyone can do this one and is the perfect treat to bring to a Halloween party.

1:01:19 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to sculpt a skull out of cake
• Learn how to create roses out of chocolate
• How to hand paint beautiful designs onto the skull

Tutorial Chapters

1. Coloring the orange buttercream 0:19
2. Coloring the purple buttercream 2:46
3. Cutting the cake board 5:38
4. Cutting and stacking the cake 7:00
5. Carving the cake 10:40
6. Frosting the skull 19:20
7. Getting rid of modeling chocolate “white” residue 24:40
8. Making the flowers 28:56
9. Rolling out the fondant 36:34
10. Covering the skull 38:38
11. Mixing paints 41:30
12. Edible marker ink 42:50
13. Mapping out design 44:20
14. Painting the skull 49:15
15. Adding the flowers to the skull 58:12