Skill level: Intermediate
I loved making this Monstera Cake for Staghorn Mercantile's 3rd anniversary. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a realistic variegated Monstera plant out of edible materials, how to create the plant pot cake, how to add hand-painted details and shapes that read exactly the way they would on a real Monstera.
There's a lot to cover in this tutorial, so let's get our tools together and let's get started!
1:08:28 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to create a monstera plant cake with edible materials
- Learn how to make the edible leaves and details to match a plant-lover's expectations
- How to make a potted plant and edible dirt to look just like the real thing
Tutorial Chapters
- Preparations
- Making the leaves
- Cutting out the leaves
- Making the paint
- Painting the leaves
- Crumb coating the cakes
- Building the pot base
- Carving the cake
- Covering the pot in buttercream
- Covering in modeling chocolate
- Stacking the cake
- Smoothing the cake
- Adding feet
- Adding the leaves
- Coloring the modeling chocolate
- Adding the stems
- Painting the cake
- Making and adding the soil