Left 4 Dead

12-28-09 This is a really large brownie covered in fudge frosting decorated in honor of the Left 4 Dead video game, so I'm not so sure it really belongs here. Thanks for the candy corn inspiration from http://chiccookiekits.blogspot.com/2009/10/emotional-life-of-candy-corn.html. I found a wooden helicopter in a dollar bin at one of my favorite stores and had to hand paint it from yellow to green, and then came the details. I had to hand paint a pale green candy coating on each zombie before applying the faces and blood with a cakemate writer. The wording was Wilton candy melts that I tented zombie green. I printed out the font on my computer and placed a sheet of waxed paper above it taped to the counter top. I piped the melted candy onto the letters and let them dry. The lettering was super easy that way.

I'm A Pepper

12-07-09 This cake I made for someone that I knew would appreciate Dr. Pepper as much as I do...The cake itself is a Dr. Pepper cake recipe and I made a buttercream and added some Dr. Pepper to it to give it the flavor too. "Hy" for Happy in place of "Dr" for Doctor. I looked up a font to use to get the rest of the letters the correct way. I had to use almost an entire container of Burgundy food coloring and still added some cocoa to it to get the color correct. This was kind of spur of the moment, but I did want to do something cool for her.