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: