Instead of doing a graveyard cake as planned for a Halloween party, I decided to try making an entirely edible cake. This sketch became the roadmap for my “pumpkin patch gone bad” cake.
Because I was shopping my pantry, the cake became a lovely pumpkin patch contrasted with the one gone bad. It also turned into a coma-inducing amount of chocolate!
Not exactly a recipe
Since I was making this up as I went, there isn’t really a recipe to follow. Just let your imagination lead the way.
I started with black velvet cake (a darker chocolate) and layered that on top of Devil Food cake.
I used a thin layer of chocolate icing between the two cake layers. Then used cream cheese icing on one side and milk chocolate icing on the other. The good pumpkin patch is snow covered. The bad side is just too bad for snow to stick over there. (Okay, I just didn’t have enough of either frosting for the whole cake.)
Cake decorations you can eat
Since my goal was to make every piece of the decoration edible, I used the following:
- Pumpkin candy
- Peeps ghosts
- Kit Kats (fence posts)
- Chocolate sprinkles (pathway)
- Mini Oreo cookies (ground up for dirt)
- Gummy worms
- Licorice Twizzlers (dead trees)
- Green decorator icing (vines)
- Brown decorator icing (vines)
- Green icing for grass
Didn’t quite achieve 100% safe to eat
I thought the licorice Twizzlers tree was a genius touch, but the fresh ones wouldn’t stand up on their own. They turned into the hardest element; And I thought it would be pretty easy. I used 20 mm craft wire to make it stand straight and be bendable to make limbs. Getting that wire up one strand of Twizzler was a pain in the arse.
I spent so much time trying to make the trees work, that just to finish quickly, I ended up not making the sign and its post out of something people could eat.
Here’s several shots from start to finish:
Thankfully, the cake was a hit! Almost too much though because no one wanted to be the first person to cut it and mess up the design.
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