Name: Little Monsters
Yield: Makes 16
Ingredients: The colours I used were: pink food colour paste green food colour paste red food colour paste yellow food colour paste blue food colour paste violet food colour paste orange food colour paste black food colour paste; 60 g piping bag white royal icing, no. 1 nozzle; 5-6 tbsp orange or lemon juice; 500 g white sugarpaste (or ready mixed colours of your choice); 1 X All-in-one Lemon Cake batter (all lemon changed to oranges, but juice of ½ large orange only in cake); 500 g icing sugar, sifted; 5 tbsp caster sugar; juice of 1 orange; 16 cupcake cases

Preparation info

Makes
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

The more revolting and gruesome the better! Thank you to Molly and Jacob Eardley (aged 11 and 8) for designing the originals for me to copy I have listed the colours and quantities of icing I used, but this is only a rough guide. A great way to get children involved: just give them the icing, colours, a piping bag or two (and this photo to spark their imaginations) and leave them for an hour or two! You could use food colouring pens too (although the sugarp