My dearest niece and her besty adore all things Tim Burton and especially the movie "Sweeney Todd". When I was asked if I could come up with an appropriate birthday cake my warped brain started churning. We went with a rather gruesome recreation of a meat pie...
Of course it had to contain a body part...or two...
We couldn't just leave it as a simple cake...there had to be an element of surprise...so we made it "bleed!
Fresh made strawberry sauce was lurking in the middle and the whole thing worked just as we planned! The birthday girl was delighted, over joyed and ecstatic!
Cake is chocolate fudge with mini chocolate chips, filled with vanilla custard, covered in chocolate buttercream and wrapped in modeling chocolate. The "finger" is a mixture of modeling chocolate and gumpaste and hand painted to give it a gruesome corpse look.
So much fun to plan and to create!