Yesterday I finally made the cake from Voltaire's 'Paint it Black'. It's basically a chocolate sponge cake with vanilla icing, jam and biscuits/tomb stones. I can't find any pictures of the original recipe, so I'll just show you what my cake looks like.
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The original plan was to make the vanilla frosting red. Unfortunately, my frosting didn't
want to be red. I used two entire vials of red colour, but all the icing did was get really, really pink. The last thing I wanted was a pink graveyard cake, so I added a vial of blue to make it purple. It actually worked, even though it still looks pinkish on the pictures...
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I had lots of fun making the graves. Not only because I got to bury E.A. Poe and Bela Lugosi in my chocolate cake, but also because it involved breaking off parts of the biscuits and eating them. Teehee.
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Bela Lugosi's dead, undead, undead... Oh come on, didn't you see that one coming?
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Worms, yummy!
My next experiment will probably involve geekiness and cupcakes, I can't wait.