I get asked a lot of questions about cakes. One of the most common questions I get is, “What can you do with a 9×13 cake? I don’t want to bake a layer cake.”
I happen to really, really like layer cakes. Might even have a small obsession with them. Like making them twenty five layers and rainbow inside obsession.
But every now and then its nice to just make a cake like mom made.
Well, minus the creepy millipedes.
You know what I mean.
So I found this picture of a giant millipede.
photo from here
That sucker is like a foot long. I do not like looking at pictures of creepy crawly things but I do like you so I sucked it up and moved forward.
This cake is a marriage between wanting to make something fun out of a regular old 9×13 cake and wanting to do something seasonal. (Halloween)
Hence the creepy crawly millipede cake.
After icing the cake with white frosting, I just added some black food coloring to the remaining frosting. I always use *Americolor Gel Food Coloring when I need to achieve deep, rich color.
Since I am more familiar with the tiny millipedes in real life, I knew I wanted to add some to this cake. They are what really got me… since those little rollie pollie ones look EXACTLY like the real thing.
Pretty much my skin has been crawling for a week now.
So there you have it. I see a Cake Challenge post in the futuree. Maybe even a candy post. Maybe I will just snuggle up next to this cake in bed because its so beautiful.
But that might be weird.
I do know one thing, and that is that I have a few more Halloween cakes to share!
Hope you like Halloween as much as me!
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Whoa! Looks so real o_o
Amazing and totally creepy!
Oh my creepiness! Awesome detail
So creepy – perfect halloween creepiness cake!
Eeew. Totally gave me the creepy crawlies. My favorite are the tiny ones, and that one climbing the side of the cake.
This looks awesome, but I would never have it in my house, even for Halloween, ewww, Great job!
Joan @chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate
This looks awesome, but I would never have it in my house, even for Halloween, ewww, Great job!
Joan @chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate
Great Halloween idea! And thanks for doing a 9×13 cake! It’s just nice to see once in a while.
That is so lifelike and I am unsure if I could eat it!!!
OMGosh!!!! Thats soooooo soooooo creepy!! It’s giving me the willies!!!! It does look great though.
That is some crazy attention to detail! It must have taken you forever to do all those tiny ones and the little legs on the big one.
That is some crazy attention to detail! It must have taken you forever to do all those tiny ones and the little legs on the big one.
A little too real looking! I found my daughter, a baby, crunching on something and discovered she had a few in her mouth! Never liked them since – not that I did before!
Gaack! Lenita! Poor baby!!!
Monstruous !!!
A little too life-like!! It is creepy…but a great idea!
Sheesh. I don’t know if to be amazed or disgusted. That is one creepy cake!!
Sheesh. I don’t know if to be amazed or disgusted. That is one creepy cake!!
Whoa! creepy cake is right!……lol I bet some boys would LOVE a cake like this! great work Amanda!!
I’m skurred…
I’m skurred…
waaayyyyyy toooooo funnnnnnn Amanda!!!! love it!!
Eek!
You are so cool. And talented too! My son would lurve for me to make one of these!
Yikes! I always scream whenever I see a millipede or any other creepy crawly thing on the floor. So, I’m pretty sure I’d scream when I saw this cake. That said, I think it’s pretty perfect for Halloween!
Yikes! I always scream whenever I see a millipede or any other creepy crawly thing on the floor. So, I’m pretty sure I’d scream when I saw this cake. That said, I think it’s pretty perfect for Halloween!
Oh wow…I am just thinking about all of the time it took to pipe those little legs and the babies around the border! That’s dedication! (And totally perfect cake for Halloween! So creepy!!!);)
BLEARGH! Lol! This is great.
This would definitely give the most die-hard Halloween fan the willies, especially if you cut into that fella and it was filled with red velvet cake!
A lot of patience to be sure to complete this but the overall effect is totally realistic.
I am seriously in awe that you did that out of frosting!! It looks so real and creepy and disgusting (all of which are compliments to your ability!)
reading your twitter I felt BAD for ya, but looks like EWWWW and “GROSS” are a major GOOD thing here! AWESOME in a gross way! HAHAHAHA!
This has to be one of your best concept cake ever! So creepy and so real like.
How did you manage yucky & fabulous at the same time!!! Creepy crawly bliss
Great cake girl.
How did you manage yucky & fabulous at the same time!!! Creepy crawly bliss
Great cake girl.
Ahh gag I shouldn’t have looked while eating lunch…awesome job though gag gag
wow! What a perfect Halloween idea!So creepy!
It’s so wonderful! my kids just screamed in delight! (well mostly, there was some horror mixed in there too!) Very creepy!
Um wow…this is bringing back memories of the terrible bug I found in my apartment just last night. Glad you found a way to make it edible
you are so creative! and a true artist. do we see a tutorial in our futures?
That is totally sick in both defintions of the word (gross and totally awesome)! I don’t think I could eat it (OK, yeah, I totally could b/c it’s cake duh), but it is so neat!
I am going to steal this cake. A close friend of mine has a millipede problem at her house and keeps having to spray for them. I am so making this cake for her.
What tip did you use for the body?
Purely aweome.
While I appreciate your technique and agree with all the posted compliments, am I really the only one not disappointed you haven’t revealed the “surprise” from last post??!!! (sigh)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween! What a fantabulous Halloween cake! That millipede is SO realistic!
You amaze me.
Can’t wait to see what else you’ve got up your sleeve!!
This cake gives me the heebie jeebies! It makes my skin crawl…which is completely AWESOME!! love it and hate it at the same time :O) The topper is all the wormies around the edges eeeek
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! That is gross. Which of course means you are awesome. It looks WAY to real to eat! :X
Seriously one of the creepiest things I’ve seen!! Love the border around the bottom, it adds an awesome touch!
I’m with you…not a fan of the sheet cake. But this one is perfect!
Just when I think I can’t be more impressed/amazed I read one of your posts… as they say “there she goes again”!!
When my boys were younger this cake would have been “da bomb” – think I had better go out and find some little boys to make this for!
Just when I think I can’t be more impressed/amazed I read one of your posts… as they say “there she goes again”!!
When my boys were younger this cake would have been “da bomb” – think I had better go out and find some little boys to make this for!
Aaah, this is so wonderfully grossly cool! I love the color contrasts too.
My favorite are the tiny ones, and that one climbing the side of the cake.Great idea!
eeek that is amazing – did you pipe every leg?!
That is nasty!!
Wow I totally missed this post, maybe because I’ve been out of it since Monday morning..
That thing is CREEPY! EEKK! Those are one of my least favorite bugs they totally freak me out and make me want to run for the hills. I don’t know that I could eat a cake with that on it. Couldn’t eat it right now anyways if I wanted to or not LOL.
Definitely creepy! This is one bug that used to scare the daylights out of me when I was a kid. I still get goose bumps when I see one. Perfect for Halloween.
Very creative! I’ve wanted to create something creepy for halloween and this is perfect. Great detail on the legs!
Ok, I am slightly wigging out over this one. Cool… but I feel the need to brush my arms and shoulders
are you going to post the “making of”? or how does it look inside? or something else??? Mmmmm looks soooooooo great!
My girls said the cake was too creepy for them and that a boy would like it!!! It is for me too, but it is a perfect Halloween cake. I cannot believe you made all those little legs.
If this wasn’t ON a cake (and your blog:)), I would think it was real! The teeny ones around the cake…I don’t know if I could eat them?!?! Maybe with my eyes closed:)
LOL, this is about the only scary critter I dont have day to day access too. You really captured it!
Terrifying!!!! I swear my INSIDES are crawling at the close up pictures of the legs and tiny rolled up ones. ACK! You’re amazing!
I’m torn between what is scarier – the cake, or the black mouth that would come from eating a piece with the actual millipede on it? LOL. I so always love your Halloween ideas!
Love this and I’m going to feature it tomorrow on my blog. http://www.trilogyedibles.com