zombie cake
For Heather’s Zombie themed birthday party, I made a graveyard cake with zombies crawling up out of their graves. It’s pretty cool, I think. Everyone at the party seemed to like it, yay!
The cake is a yellow cake with vanilla pastry cream (dyed red) and fresh strawberries in the middle with chocolate frosting. The zombies are molded out of white chocolate and the tombstones are milano cookies dipped in white chocolate with a few drops of black food coloring. The dirt is crushed oreo cookies. Stacey totally bit the head off of the blue shirted zombie. Others had some of the arms. I ate a tombstone, myself. There are a couple of other photos of this cake as well, in my cake gallery.
The party was fun – food, drinks, friends, zombie movies = good times. I got my buzz on fairly early and let it pass without getting further drunk. I really like sleeping in my own bed.
EDIT (for those that want to know how to make this cake) on 10/26/08:
To make the zombie men, I used a candy mold. I filled the molds with melted white chocolate chips – I spread chocolate around in the mold and then let the chocolate cool in the fridge. I only used the top half of the mold – the body part and the arms part since that was all I needed. After it had hardened, I popped the chocolates out of the molds and pressed them together (again, using more melted white chocolate to make the pieces stick together).
I used food coloring to paint them, though that was not a very efficient method, but the sloppiness of it turned out in my favor. I used the food coloring to paint the hair, the eyes, and a crude shirt onto each zombie, with a tint of red around the lips. You could try using a little melted white chocolate with food coloring, but I just used straight food coloring with a fresh paintbrush that had never been used on anything else so that it would be food safe. I got a little “dirt” of them (crushed oreos cookies) and then just stuffed them right into the cake.
I hope these additional instructions help you to make your own zombie cake! If you have additional questions though, please feel free to email me or make a comment below.
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May 14th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Oh baby, I love your cakes. They’re very cool.
May 15th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
not only was the cake adorable, but it was damn tasty!
May 17th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
i think i liked it too.
July 14th, 2006 at 10:04 am
I was hoping to make this cake for my fiance as ag groom’s cake on our wedding and was hoping you could offer some more detailed instructions for the zombies… did you use a mold, how you painted them, etc. Thanks!!
April 16th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Love it! Very unique and creative. My kids would go crazy for something like that!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
dude, this is really kool! i totally want to make one like this for my friend. but i’m thinking of adding a lot more stuff ha. if its not too much trouble, can you let me know what you used to make the zombies? thanks for your time, take care. :]
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
PLEASE HELP ME CREATE THESE ZOMBIES!! I NEED TO MAKE A GRAVEYARD CAKE FOR A L’IL GIRL THAT’S GONNA BE 3 ON HALLOWEEN DAY. SHE HAS SPINA BIFIDA AND WILL NOT BE GOING TRICK OR TREATING THIS YEAR DUE TO SURGERIES, SO WE’LL BRING THE PARTY TO HER!! PLEASE HELP US MAKE HER SPECIAL DAY EXTRA SPECIAL!! THANX SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!!
October 24th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I’m also wanting to make this for my friends 30th zombie partay…when you made the molds, what did you use for thee eyes, i guess there’s lots of little things i’d like to know if you’re willing to share 🙂 Like what kind of chocolate you used for the zombies. This cake looks creepfabulous! Thank you thank you for any addt’l hints you could offer!
June 30th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Hi. How did you mold the white chocolate? Can you walk me through this process? Is it special chocolate? I love the Zombie cake and perfect for my Halloween theme this year! Thanks!
August 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
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