Witch Hazel (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} longpig) wrote in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} bakebakebake,@ 2008-05-04 17:32:00 |
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| Current location: | Aberystwyth |
| Current mood: |  accomplished |
| Current music: | Edith Piaf - C'Est un Monsieur Trés Distinguè |
| Entry tags: | !decorating, butter cake, citrus |
have you seen the yellow sign?
Well, my fiancé's birthday party is today, and he requested, months ago, a lemon flavoured cake with a Lovecraftian theme. So lemon=yellow=Hastur for those in the nerd-know like myself... :V I used the recipe for New Starlight Cake (same as in this post), using lemon extract instead of vanilla, and with about 1/8th cup lemon juice substituted for so much milk, and filled the 4 layers (2 rounds sliced in half) with alternating lemon curd and lemon neo-classic buttercream. The covering and decorations are all made from golden marzipan, which he adores, so I piled it on.
So, here we go... The stars are right!
Some painted tentacles chillin' out... Yum!
Placing tentacles on the cake.
And a few more.
The nearly complete cake with a few tentacles in the background.
Almost done.
The finished product, and a few more close-ups!
I was quite pleased with the blood spatter!
The end!
