Married to Misanthropy - have you seen the yellow sign?

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Well, my Ian's birthday party is today, and he requested, months ago, a lemon flavoured cake with a Lovecraftian theme. So lemon=yellow=Hastur for those in the nerd-know like myself... :V I used the recipe for New Starlight Cake (same as in this post), using lemon extract instead of vanilla, and with about 1/8th cup lemon juice substituted for so much milk, and filled the 4 layers (2 rounds sliced in half) with alternating lemon curd and lemon neo-classic buttercream. The covering and decorations are all made from golden marzipan, which he adores, so I piled it on.

So, here we go... The stars are right!

Painting the tentacles...

Some painted tentacles chillin' out... Yum!

Placing tentacles on the cake.

And a few more.

The nearly complete cake with a few tentacles in the background.

Almost done.

The finished product, and a few more close-ups!

I was quite pleased with the blood spatter!

The end!

Tags: birthdays, bogganing, food, geekery, photo
Current Location: Aberystwyth
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	From: elanya	Date: May 4th, 2008 04:48 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That turned out fantastic! :D

	From: longpig	Date: May 4th, 2008 04:50 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks! I'm very pleased! :D

	From: ebb_n_flowing	Date: May 4th, 2008 05:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

wowow!!! I'm both disgusted and craving this cake at the same time. mmmmmmmmross.

	From: ebb_n_flowing	Date: May 4th, 2008 05:38 pm (UTC)		(Link)

PS: how did you make that lovely yellow "cover" for the cake?? Looks like a thick fondu? I've always wanted to try and make that.

	From: longpig	Date: May 4th, 2008 05:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

It's golden marzipan, basically a paste made from ground almonds and sugar. You roll it out like pie crust or cookie dough or something and just lay it over the cake. I didn't have time to make it from scratch, but it's sold in stores everywhere here.

	From: longpig	Date: May 4th, 2008 05:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

	From: fritzleonhardt	Date: May 4th, 2008 06:20 pm (UTC)		(Link)

that cake is the awesome!

	From: longpig	Date: May 5th, 2008 12:00 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks! Do I get extra xp for it? ;)

	From: psychotropek	Date: May 4th, 2008 09:06 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	That looks amazing!

Mmmmm...now debating baking...

	From: longpig	Date: May 5th, 2008 12:00 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: That looks amazing!

It was a lot of fun to make!

Edited at 2008-05-05 12:01 am (UTC)

	From: amaena	Date: May 4th, 2008 10:28 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That cake is made of win!

	From: longpig	Date: May 5th, 2008 12:01 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks! :D I saw you pimped it on your journal, thanks for that as well! :D

	From: sorceror	Date: May 5th, 2008 03:27 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Nooo!!!

Alas! I cannot see the pictures of your delicious, delicious Elder God cake. ;_;

	From: longpig	Date: May 5th, 2008 04:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Nooo!!!

try refreshing... I think imageshack is being a little twitchy today. If not, most of them are on my facebook (page 3 of that album).

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