Zombie Halloween Cake

Zombie Halloween Cake
Zombie Halloween Cake Zombie Halloween Cake

My client asked for an absolutely disgusting, scary zombie cake with the iconic hand reaching out to get you. I wanted him to look like he was crawling from a grave, but up at a realistic angle. That angle turned out to be quite the engineering feat & I learned a LOT about cake structure while making it work.

The entire cake is over 2 feet long & 18 inches wide. The grave is half vanilla cake with white chocolate buttercream, & half Hot Chocolate cake with Oreo buttercream. The entire grave is coated in chocolate ganache with buttercream grass, crushed Oreos & crushed Teddy Grahams. The zombie is, naturally, red velvet cake on his back & rice krispy treats on the front. The headstone is also rice krispy treats. I have never used so many rice krispy treats in my life!

The intestines & brain are modeling chocolate, the ‘blood’ is a chocolate syrup, & the rat is molded with raspberry flavored dark cocoa modeling chocolate. I got all clever & put cooked rice pieces all over it for ‘maggots’, but after a few minutes they soaked in the blood & you couldn’t see them anymore. Oh well.

He was so huge & heavy I couldn’t move him by myself, so I couldn’t get him into my cake room to take pictures. So unfortunately, the only pictures I could get were at the party itself, The party was AMAZING by the way! This guy went ALL OUT! Here is a link to the video, which shows him MUCH better, & has scary Halloween party music playing in the background. Muah-ha-ha-ha-ha (evil laugh)! Zombie Cake YouTube Video

I was so proud of his back, that I just couldn’t cover it up with a shirt! LOL! Here is the detail:

Cakes ROCK!!! Christy Seguin, Austin, TX

20 Comments

Wow…. I mean wow…. Outstanding detailing… Your so talented! Fabulous sculpting and artistry here xx

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Absolutely fantastic!!! Totally love all your fab gory detailing! X :)

Sandra - sugarfun@hotmail.co.uk

Fantastic…..gruesome and believable…..brilliant job :)

Sue. https://www.facebook.com/fantailcakes

Yup, you certainly achieved disgusting – I feel a little queasy! Brilliant cake!!! :-D

Julia Hardy

Thank you all so much! It certainly isn’t pretty! But it was a huge achievement for me.

Cakes ROCK!!! Christy Seguin, Austin, TX

OMG… you really rocked this one my friend!

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