Halloween Fun in the Bakery

Can you make a haunted house cake?

What a question.  Sure we can.  Especially if you give us carte blanche in the decorating arena.  This customer, one of our "regulars" did exactly that, saying "just do whatever you want."

I love that kind of freedom.

So we had fun today.

We started with a 10-inch square chocolate cake. Plus a few extra "scraps" from previous recent cake carving episodes. Plus a half-sheet cake board.

Then we added fondant windows and shutters and a door... more fondant "bricks" for the chimneys...glitter gel for the spider webs...luster dust to make the moon silver...orange candy melts for the cobble stones...fondant stars and bats...chocolate tombstones...cookie ghosts...and lots and lots of buttercream.

It was almost  a shame to sell it.

Comments

[Heather]

Mary--we can't tell you how much we loved this cake. We spent a lot of time simply staring at it, taking in the layers of detail. The grass sprouting between the paving stones, the gorgeous illuminated windows, the translucent spiderwebs; we just couldn't get enough of it. We finally did cut it, but not before photographing it extensively. The only problem is that a picture really can't do its beauty justice. I'm never giving any instructions on a cake from you!