The Evil Eye Cake That Protects Your Party and Steals the Show

The evil eye is a protective symbol that has been around for centuries in Greek, Turkish and Middle Eastern cultures. This symbol was traditionally connected with the protection against negativity, bad luck and envy. The evil eye symbol is now popular today for cake decorators and is incorporated into wedding cakes, birthday cakes, and even Halloween tables today.

Generally, the middle of an evil eye cake has blue, white and black circles which form the traditional evil eye shape. Some extra details like gold eyelashes, small pearls, moon crescents and stars may be added to make the design more impressive. The end result is a beautiful cake that can be used for a variety of occasions.

How to Make Evil Eye Design?

Evil eye cake requires simple steps that can easily be done using buttercream, fondant, and chocolate.

Begin by making the black or dark blue pupil of the eye in the center of the cake. Cover it with a white ring, then an orange or teal coloured iris and a blue ring at the edge. Eyelashes that are gold or black can be made to go along the upper and lower edges to make the eye. The design can be applied to the top layer of the cake or to the entire cake decorating surface.

To make the birthday evil eye cake design, you can pipe the eye design with round nozzles of various sizes directly on buttercream. If you’re creating smaller treats, such as evil eye cookies or cupcakes, the Sweet Stencil Evil Eye is the perfect tool to make this evil eye pattern in no time. You can also make chocolate rings on the parchment sheet and allow them to dry before placing them on the cake directly.

Evil Eye Cake for Every Occasion

This same pattern for evil eye cake can also be in various sizes and styles, so it can be easily matched to the celebration.

Birthday Evil Eye Cake

A birthday evil eye cake design can be made to fit into a single or two layer cake. Frost the tiers with white or light blue buttercream and top with the eye design. Sprinkle gold star stars, pearl cachous and crescent moon designs on the sides.

The cake decorating pieces of Stellar Cake Decorating Star Topper can be pressed around the tiers to bring out small space themed bits without additional piping. Complete with a gold number topper and an evil eye cake topper to match the birthday theme.

Evil Eye Bento Cake

The evil eye bento cake is a basic gift idea that maintains the simplicity of the design yet not compromises the primary elements. With the small size, a single tier cake with one neat eye motif piped on top is used.

A white or pale blue buttercream frosting can be used as the base, with gold eye lashes piped around the eye. On its side, put the Harvest Moon Cake Hoop to create a small crescent moon feature. It will give the themed evil eye cake a celestial look, but at the same time, it keeps the small surface clean.

Evil Eye Cake for Each and Every Occasion

Depending on the theme, a themed evil eye cake can be used for a variety of occasions, just with a bit of colour and decoration tweaks.

• Mystical birthday: Deep blue tiers, gold star sprinkles, crescent moon toppers and the eye motif on top.
• Bohemian wedding: Tiers should remain white and have gold and ivory coloured eye theme incorporated along with some dried flowers on the base.
• Cultural celebration: Stick to traditional blue and white with gold eyelash piping, to capture the original nazar symbolism.
• Halloween: Dark drip ganache around the sides of the base of black cocoa buttercream with white and electric blue eyes.

Gold and silver lustre dusts brushed lightly over the eye for any of these styles will give a soft metallic look and complete the look.

Evil Eye Cupcakes and Cookies

Evil eye cupcakes and evil eye cookies are a simple addition to the cake, if you want to take the same design throughout the dessert table.

To make evil eye cupcakes, apply blue, white, and black rings on the top of each cupcake using a round nozzle. Eyes Sprinkle Charms can also be added to the cupcakes to enhance the eye effect without having to do any further piping.

To make a simple ripple effect, drag with a cocktail stick from the centre to the edge while the icing is still soft. As for the evil eye cookies, apply four rings of royal icing on a flat sugar cookie, then use a scribe tool to make the eye design through the icing.

• For strong and consistent colours, use gel food colours in electric blue, deep navy and black.
• While the icing is still wet, sprinkle some gold cachous around the outer ring.
• Sprinkle gold rods all over the top to give eyelash details.

Key Decorating Tips

An evil eye cake is all about decorating it properly to maintain the design of the traditional evil eye symbol.

• Keep blue and white as the main colours. Both are integral to the traditional symbol.
• Buttercream can taste bitter if there is an excess of black food colouring. To achieve a darker colour with a chocolate flavour, use the dark cocoa powder.
• Make sure the concentric rings are equally spaced to create perfect eyes. Using a toothpick will help make the edges neat before the icing hardens.
• Gold metallic cachous, pearl sprinkles, and star mixes can be combined to create small decorations near the eye.
• The Man Faced Sun and Moon Chocolate Mould helps create celestial designs of the moon and sun out of chocolate or fondant. Add these around the base board to complete the design of themed evil eye cakes.
• Apricot Flavour can also be used for cupcakes or cookies to provide fruity flavour to your dessert.

Using a cake turntable will be helpful in adding the buttercream base and smoothing it out before adding the eye detail on each layer.

The cake that watches over everyone’s gathering

The evil eye cake is easy to create without making it complicated. This is because of the use of colours like blue, white, black, and gold which provide the cake its unique appearance. The design itself has cultural significance.

Whether you opt for a tall birthday evil eye cake design, a tiny evil eye bento cake, evil eye cupcakes, or evil eye cookies, the eye design ensures that there is an overall theme.