Happy Halloween! Made this moody animal skeleton cake to celebrate

by Veeeeezy

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  2. Veeeeezy

    A bit about the cake and how it’s made 🙂

    Its a 6 layer chocolate cake, with alternating layers of milk chocolate ganache and chocolate swiss meringue buttercream, whipped salted caramel, and chopped pecans.

    The critters paintings are done on black fondant. Using small paintbrushes I added the white on using white food colouring (chefmaster brand, but is basically just titanium dioxide and glycerin). For the outlines of the bodies I mixed the white colouring with vodka to give it some transparency. The bones are straight colouring painted on.

    I looooove this cake. There was a couple things that went wrong tho haha. I baked my fondant on silicone sheets (don’t do this lol) so it didn’t cure fully and when I tried to remove it it teared and cracked, so I had to try and mend it.

    That and black food colouring is so tricky to work with. My frosting was bleeding so bad that it was hard for anything piped to hold its shape. It’s probably just a matter of buying a different brand.

  3. SockSevere6396

    WOW!

    Thanks for sharing your process. That howling wolf is so, so cool!

  4. Motor_Telephone8595

    Absolutely exquisite, I don’t even know where to start on this perfection. 10 out of 10, no notes. Happy Halloween 🏆 🎃

  5. starry2night_22

    This is SO freaking cool 😍 You’re so talented!

  6. ManicPixieDreamHag

    Fantastic. Congrats on this one!

  7. Impressive-Shame-525

    This is some black magic stuff.

    Wow.

  8. Capable_Salt_SD

    Whoa, that is so fcking cool!

    Sort of reminds me of the portraits in The Haunted Mansion too

    Great job!

  9. fraochmuir

    This is possibly the most amazing cake I have ever seen! It’s incredible!

  10. NewtNo2437

    Just WOW! Amazing job! Beautiful and sounds delicious! 😋

  11. No_Beyond_1995

    This is beyond incredible. I’m obsessed and in awe of your creativity and talent. This is a masterpiece

  12. dfabrica

    That cake is so incredibly well done, omg! How did you get the skeletons to look so believable? Are they anatomically correct? And if so, where did you copy them from? And apart from that, everything else about the look of it amazing too, the red roses on the black icing, the way the skeleton “portraits” are framed. Seriously, you should be the pastry chef at the Haunted Mansion at Disney World! Your creations would fit right in with that vibe. It’s a work of art, congratulations!

  13. tlgexlibris

    If you can do this in 4 hours you’re a shoe-in!

  14. dreamylassie

    Wow it’s glorious! Amazing design and decorating.

  15. Queasy-Cell34

    This is absolutely beautiful. You did an excellent job! ❤️