In the peace and quiet of the midnight hours a couple of months ago, I was mindlessly Googling “unique”, “fancy”, “strange”, “elaborate” and the like attributes, placed next to the word “cake”. I was quite determined, too, to steal creative ideas and techniques from anyone’s edible pieces of art, preferably ones without a price tag and [...]
Archive for October, 2007
BloodRayne 2 – Halloween/Birthday Cake
Posted in Cakes, Halloween, Video Games, tagged 2, Bloodrayne, cake, Castle, fondant, Fortress, games, gothic, Halloween, video on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Happy Birthday, Precious!
Layers of double entendre for anyone who’s known my husband long enough…
The fortress is “death by chocolate”, built of 14 layers (two 4-layer cakes for the bottom and a 6-layer top), filled with chocolate raspberry Chambord ganache, and covered with chocolate fondant (I vaguely follow this recipe which I’ve made at least a dozen [...]
Pumpkin Cake and Trick-or-Treaters
Posted in Cakes, Halloween, tagged cake, fondant, Halloween, pumpkin, spider, treat, trick on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Halloween, Little Trick-or-Treaters!
An off-cake-topic story… On my first Halloween candy-giving experience some seven years ago, I had this crazy notion to make kids trick me before – or instead of – giving them treats… I also had the apparently insane thought of giving out home-made cookies, what did I know about bizarre assumed safety [...]
