Make the bow and the bats on wire a day in advance so it can dry well.

Step 1: Make the bow and the bats

Knead the suagr paste well with a little tylo powder and roll it out to a thickness of about 2 mm. Make strips of 2 cm wide and 12 cm long, using the FMM Multi Stripes Cutter. Stick the ends together with a little edible glue and let them dry on their sides. Cut a couple of bats out of the black sugar paste, dip the end a Culpitt Flower Wire Silver in the edible glue and gently push it through the bat and let dry flat on a piece of kitchen paper for a day. Then wrap the wire with the black tape.

Step 2: Colour the skulls

Colour the skulls as you like with the FunCakes Edible Markers, then leave to dry thoroughly.

Step 3: Bake the sponge cake

Preheat the oven to 180°C (convection oven 160°C) and grease the baking pans with the FunCakes Bake Release Spray. Make 250g of the FunCakes Baking Mix for Sponge Cake as indicated on the package. Divide the batter into 4 portions and colour them with the black, green, orange and purple FunCakes Food Colour Gel. Place the batter into the baking pans and bake the sponge cakes for about 13-17 minutes until done. After baking, immediately dump onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.

Step 4: Make the buttercream

Make 200g of the FunCakes Mix for Buttercream with 200ml of water and finish with 250g of soft unsalted buttercream, as indicated on the package. Flavour the buttercream with the FunCakes Flavour paste Lemon Zest and colour it blue with the FunCakes Colour Gel Aqua Blue. 

Step 5: Build the sponge cakes

Fill the coloured layers of sponge cakes with buttercream and stack the slices.Then spread randomly with the blue buttercream and leave to set in the fridge for an hour.

Step 6: Line the biscuit with sugar paste

Knead the black fondant well and roll it out to a thickness of 2 to 3 mm and line the cake with it. Cut away the excess fondant with a sharp knife.

Step 7: Decorate with Choco Drip

Melt all the colours of FunCakes Choco Drip as indicated on the package, in the microwave. Pour small bits into several bowls and, using a spatula, splash the choco drip against the cake. Then leave to set in the fridge for a while, until the choco drip has hardened.

Step 8: Decorate the Halloween cake

Put a bit of buttercream on the cake and push a few loops of the bow into this. Pipe a little buttercream in the middle of the loops and again, push a few loops in here until you have a nice full bow.

Stick the PME Flower Pics into the cake and put the bats on wire in there. You can push a bit of fondant in there for firmness, if necessary. Finally, stick the coloured skulls on the cake with a little choco drip.

Step 9: Enjoy this spooky Halloween cake!

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