This cake was made for some very dear friends for their Anniversary. They were married on Halloween! So this triple threat includes cake, cookies and popcorn balls. This cake was so much fun to make and was inspired by a cake in Wilton yearbook...if anyone really wants to know what book it's in, I'll look it up for you. Instead of making one skeleton coming out of the grave....I made a couple. Now for the details:
I started with a regular 9 x 13 pan and chocolate cake (for the dirt). Casually iced the cake in chocolate buttercream. I used tip #233 to make the grass border. The gravestones are cookies on sticks , iced in grey buttercream icing with black buttercream lettering. I dug up two shallow areas that the gruesome twosome would be exiting from and sprinkled some of it on top of the cake. I made two proportional heads using a popcorn ball recipe ( I also insterted a cookie sticks for stability). Other pieces of popcorn were used for the arms and fingers. The elbow portion is two toothpicks with popcorn on them (glued with buttercream). Eyes, nose and mouth are piped with buttercream using a tip #5. The hat is fondant and attached using a toothpick and the veil is made of tulle (also attached with a toothpick). Each skeleton got a sprinkling of chocolate cake to resemble the dirt they came through.
