Octopus cake

[sabotabby]

I made myself a birthday cake for tonight.














But does it taste good, you ask? I'll let you know! I suspect the octopus part does not, unless you are an 8-year-old child who enjoys sugar. But the insides should taste good.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

... that's a sculptural cake that actually looks GOOD. WOW. please tell me all the deets!

[sabotabby]

Okay, so! The cake is basically this: Vegan Vanilla Birthday Cake with just the vanilla buttercream part. I mixed almond extract into both the cake batter and the buttercream because I thought it was a little bland last time I made it. I just dirty-iced the outside with buttercream.

Then I recently found out that fondant is vegan, to the extent that anything with processed sugar is vegan (i.e., it might be filtered through bone char but there's no way to know so we're not caring), so, the outside is rolled fondant. I covered the whole thing with a thin layer, then sculpted the octopus. I gave him a little gold eye with some gold sprinkles I had.

For the colour, I mixed powder food dye with vodka and used a paintbrush to paint it. The vodka should hopefully evaporate and just leave the colour. Or it will be a very alcoholic cake, haha.

Lots of steps but I went with an octopus because a) they are cool, and b) they are easy to sculpt.

[minoanmiss]

I think this is abetter use of fondant than anything I saw on Cake Boss.

Edible cephalopodic art! \o/

[sabotabby]

I don’t know why people don’t make things like this more often. But I guess it requires a lot of fondant, and no one wants to eat all that.

I learned from watching Nailed It.