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Corpse Cake
2 boxes white cake mix (if you want to have an "ethnic" corpse use one white
and one chocolate)
1 box of vanilla pudding
1 thing of squeezable strawberry preserves
lots of frosting (I used two and a half containers)
little gel frosting colors for details
food coloring
Prepare the two cake mixes at the same time according to box directions. Keep
them separate.
One will be your "skin and flesh" layer and the other will be your "guts" layer.
How do you make a guts layer?
Simple: red food coloring. Now you're going to want two pans that can nest for
the "body" and
two that can nest for the "head." On the ones that go inside you should grease
them up really
well. I used a light olive oil spray and it seemed pretty good. - cake expands.
Bummer. It really
wasn't a big deal though.
You can just cut off the pieces you don't need and either eat them or use them
for arms and
legs or something. I used marshmallows for the appendages. Let it cool for a few
minutes and
then turn out the "guts" layers onto your surface. This will be pretty long - I
ended up using a
board and covering it with tin foil.
Now a fun trick - this is really good. Put stripes of the strawberry preserves
all across the whole
first layer. Then alternate it with stripes of vanilla pudding. I used an "instant
set" pudding and
squeezed it out of a sandwich help to keep the cake moist (but not soggy). It
beats another layer
of boring frosting hands down.
Carefully place the white cake layer over top of the guts layer. It should fit
okay provided you
didn't screw up the cake somehow. At this point in time you should consider
cutting the corners
off the body so it's not so boxy, but be careful - it's hard to hide mistakes
with frosting. Once it's
all set, you are ready to go ahead and cover the whole thing in frosting!
It takes a lot of frosting to cover this thing. Remember you used two cake boxes.
I took some of
the white frosting and mixed in green food coloring, then threw in a few
splashes of hot water to
make it very liquidy. I poured it all around the cake to create a field of "grass"
for the body to
lay on.
You can do anything you want with the decorations. I didn't want to go too
grotesque,
preferring
instead to have a cute and friendly cake.
Spider's Web Cake
cake mix
orange frosting
white frosting
plastic spider
Prepare cake according to the directions on the packet of the cake mix in a
round pan. Cover cake
with orange frosting. Use white or chocolate frosting to make the spider's web.
The cake shown in
the picture has a white frosting web. Choose a center point for the web. It may
not necessarily be
the center of the cake. Starting from this center point, draw lines to the edge
of the cake all the way
to the sides. Join these lines with scalloped lines and complete concentric
circles all over the surface
of the cake as shown in the picture. Decorate the cake with a plastic spider.
You can even add plastic
bugs to the web.
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