My grandma has always made the family birthday cakes. She gets creative and always produces an elaborate sugary sculpture to suit whatever we're into at the time. Superheros, flowers, dirt and worms, Disney characters- whatever it is she has always made the perfect cake for our personality and stage of life.
I am delighted now to have the skill and experience necessary to help her with family cakes. For the last several we have teamed up. I've said this before but I'm saying it again- I think we make a fantastic duo.
My cousin Lee had a birthday on Saturday and this year she wanted a "scary vampire cake" to go along with her Halloween-themed birthday party. Grandma felt a tad uninspired this time around because vampires aren't really her kind of thing, so she asked me what I thought. I had to mull it over for a few days, but finally I came up with what I thought was a fairly simple but impressive design:
Eeek! So scary! Haha.
I remember being quite scared of Spike (of BtVS for those of you who haven't watched) when I was younger and I was hoping it would be just the thing for Lee. Not that I wanted to scare her, but I wanted her to feel grown up. Since she specifically requested a scary cake, I wanted to deliver just that.
Our vampire guy was made of fondant and the chocolate/vanilla cake was covered with modeling chocolate which turned out to be super easy to make and really amazing to work with. It's my new favorite thing.
The hands could have used a little more attention, but we were a little pressed for time. This has been the weekend from hell. Not that anything bad has happened, just lots of good things happening all at once. While we were working on this cake, we were also working on my dad's cake. For him this year I decided to try the suddenly popular cake pop. They were super experimental, but turned out pretty great. I'll have pics in the next post so stay tuned!
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