I'm no Christine McConnell, but this year's skull cake is a definite improvement over last year's! Among other things, I learned how to take a shaped cake out of the baking pan in one piece. And how to paint fondant.

Before you ask, there's a Dollarama tray ($4 and worth every penny) underneath the cake, and the teeth are from the image on it, not an actual part of the cake. The eyeballs, however, are edible.
( process pics )