I call him "Vampire Vincent".
Ok so first of all a HUGE cheer for all you bloggers out there that keep this up. How you do it I don't know... I mean I LOVE blogging, but between actually making cakes and taking care of normal life, kids, work etc.. there is just no time! So yeah... you guys deserve some major CRED!!!
SO yeah, here he is. My vampire cake. I know it's christmas now, and not halloween, but this was my halloween effort this year, I'm just a little late in posting ;-).
A friend of mine contacted me about possibly making her sons 18th birthday cake. He was quite clear what he wanted, he wanted himself as a vampire. as a cake.... So I had a few options. Either I made a flat cake with his face painted on it, the head as a cake.. or this. The head sculpted in rice krispies, and the body made of cake. Even though this seems quite an elaborate cake, this was by FAAAAAR the easy option in my eyes!!! carving into cake is something that scares me to death. I have tried it once, and let's just say my success rate is nil. SO. Here he is in all his scary glory...
For a while I was worried. My goal throughout making this cake was to make him realistic and scary. And by the end... well, I mean I'm quite a conservative gal, and so are the people I made the cake for.. so yeah.. was worried it was slightly toooo scary ;-)... The reaction I got from the dad who came to pick it up was priceless though :-D... He honestly didn't realize what he was going to see!
THE best reaction though, was from my niece. We were at the party when H. (my niece who is the same age as the birthday boy and knows him) sees it from across the room and across a heard of people standing around chatting...
All you hear (remember we are at a party with a lot of people and it's loud) is:
"WHAAAAAAAAT?!?!??!"
She stands up
"IT'S A CAKE"
"IT'S VIIIIINCENT!!!! IT'S ACTUALLY VINCENT!!!"
"BUT IT'S A CAAAKE"
Pushing her way through the crowd she gets to the cake and her face was priceless :-D!!!! I have never wished I had a camera in my hand more than I did in that moment!!!
:-D
Here are some pictures of the process of making this cake...
Rice krispie treat head!
Simply made rice krispie treats and shaped it.. though remember to grease your hands or you will have a nightmare!
Starting to "fondant" it. just to fill in gaps and holes to make the surface smoother.
When I was happy with the general shape of the face structure, I rolled out a large sheet of fondant (marshmallow fondant) and covered, smoothed it and started shaping details.
Hair and the initial painting. Oh and of course filling and stacking the cake! This one is essentially a 3 tiered cake, with a large dowel in the middle (or in this case I called it: the stake;-)) and small doweling between each tier and cake board.
It's a chocolate brownie sponge filled with a raspberry mousse and a "dumle-fluff" (swedish word) which essentialy is chocolate caramels melted in whipping cream, cooled over night and then whipped! Sooooo yummy! I used:
DUMLE FLUFF
approx. 180 g dumle (chocolate covered caramels)
3 dl of whipping cream
Melt the chocolate in the cream on the stove, but do NOT boil. Then cool in the fridge overnight(very important that its coooold)
Then whip.
Now it needs to whip quite slow. and if it's whipped for to long it can split. so I recommend just adding a pinch of baking powder at this point. This prevents it from splitting, making it quicker and easier to get the desired texture.
Here he is covered in vanilla buttercream and his shirt buttoned up :-).
And the scary finished product :-)!!!
Oh, I almost forgot to mention.. I came to the final of a cake competition with this baby! Unfortunately I didn't win. But I was soooo happy I mad sit to the final! Onwards and upwards ;-)! Here is the link to the competition, and the cakes I lost against;-)!
Sweet dreams my lovelies...
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MUAHAHAHAHHAhHhahahhahahhahh
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(yes, that was supposed to resemble an evil laugh)
Enjoy.
-J.
