The Grim Reaper 8 year old birthday cake. The child`s birthday also happens to be Halloween. The skull is a full 10 cup chocolate cake, torted and filled with chocoate icing and covered in fondant…the neck holding the skull off the ``shoulders`` is also made of chocolate cake. I had to make the neck piece a bit larger than I wanted to ensure that is was structurally sound so I ended up bringing the cape around to hide most of the neck. The shoulder cake is a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and covered in fondant. The next issue was where to put candles…so I made 8 cubes painted black (airbrush color of course) to hold the candles on the cake board.