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.
But every now and then it’s nice to just make a cake like mom made.
Well, minus the creepy millipedes.
You know what I mean.
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.
I baked a Chocolate Cake and covered it in Whipped Vanilla Buttercream.
I used a large open round tip to pipe out the body of the millipede, then went back in with a #3 tip and piped the mini millipede’s.
So there you have it. The creepiest Millipede Cake of all time.
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!