It’s not often that I attempt food sculpture. My boyfriend’s mother’s birthday-cake-decorating-hottest-day-of-summer fiasco turned me off of that for a while. Then I saw these awesome creations.
I had to try them.
I was, at first, hesitant to make cupcakes with (gasp!) a mix, but I thought about how much time I was going to have to spend on the rest of the whole arrangement and caved. Dr. Oetker to the rescue. As a result, the cupcake batter part went pretty predictably.
As things were baking, I had to get my craft on, though.
Problem #1: Those cool zombie hands? They weren’t at my local…anywhere. Time to improvise! Found these at my local gigantic multi-national neighbourhood corporation.
Please ignore the copious amounts of cat hair on my futon. It’s as though it’s taken on a life of its own. So…these are finger puppets. On which I performed some careful surgery.
And then I painted them. With food colour gel. Mistake #1.
There are still red splotches on my office table.
Next: My printer’s not hooked up and I don’t have an awesome colour printer. More time to improvise. And justify spending on craft supplies I’ll use perhaps once per year.
Yup. Expensive glitter paper. Cut into headstones. Glued together. Written on with expensive craft pen.
Voilà!
And finally, my favourite part! Frosting!
I don’t know of a reliable source for food colour gel in town (which is a shame ‘cuz I just wasted a bunch painting detached finger-puppet arms), so I’ve been mixing primary colours…with unpredictable success.
This is kind of baby poop green. Therefore, it is perfect. See?
And then, all I had to do was assemble!
1. Add dirt.
2. Add zombie arms and headstones. Choose three nicest ones. Eat all the crappy-looking ones. Photograph nice ones for blog. Eat the nice ones.
Done and done. Yeah, I’m a little late for Halloween, but I swear I’ve FELT like a zombie all week, so at least it fits SOME KIND of theme.
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