{"id":109,"date":"2006-05-14T02:56:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T09:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-10-26T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T04:00:52","slug":"zombie-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/2006\/05\/14\/zombie-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"zombie cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

EDIT (for those that want to know how to make this cake) on 10\/26\/08:
\nTo make the zombie men, I used a candy mold<\/a>. 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).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}