Corpse Cake
October 3rd, 2005
End up with something like this and you should be just fine:
Now here's the thing I forgot - cake expands. Bummer. It really wasn't a big deal though; you can just cut off the pieces you don't need and either eat them or use them for arms and legs or something. I used marshmallows for the appendages.
Let it cool for a few minutes and then turn out the "guts" layers onto your surface. This will be pretty long - I ended up using a board and covering it with tin foil.
Now a fun trick - this is really good. Put stripes of the strawberry preserves all across the whole first layer. Then alternate it with stripes of vanilla pudding. I used an "instant set" pudding and squeezed it out of a sandwich bag with the corner cut off. You can tell people it's the rib cage. These flavors go really well together and also help to keep the cake moist (but not soggy). It beats another layer of boring frosting hands down.
CAREFULLY place the white cake layer over top of the guts layer. It should fit okay provided you didn't screw up the cake somehow. At this point in time you should consider cutting the corners off the body so it's not so boxy, but be careful - it's hard to hide mistakes with frosting. Once it's all set you are ready to go ahead and cover the whole thing in frosting!
It takes a lot of frosting to cover this thing. Remember you used two cake boxes. If you're good at frosting a cake, it shouldn't be too hard. I am not good at frosting a cake.
Anyway eventually you'll get something like this. Cute huh? Awesome! That's the main part. You basically have all the parts of a cake there. But I wanted more. I took some of the white frosting and mixed in green food coloring, then threw in a few splashes of hot water to make it very liquidy. I poured it all around the cake to create a field of "grass" for the body to lay on.
You can do anything you want with the decorations. I didn't want to go too grotesque, preferring instead to have a cute and friendly cake. I thought about embedding a cardboard-and-tinfoil ax in his forehead but I think just the simple face was plenty. Did you know they make black gel frosting?
Here it is! The finished Corpse Cake. Freaking awesome. Haha, it went over really well at the party and tasted great.
Check out the background of this picture for a good accompanyment for any corpse cake.
Joke about a splitting headache.
Doing the outer layer as a "shell" around the red layer gives this cool effect to the slices. Is it worth it? I don't know, it was a lot of work and a big mess. If I was going to do it again I'd probably just make two flat 9x13 cakes, layer them, and cut it down to the shape of the body. But this did turn out really great.
Gory! Gross! Delicious! Cannibalism never tasted so good as with this sweet effigy!
It would be pretty sweet to have a fake cake that was just a pile of raw ground beef covered with frosting, so that when someone cuts into it it bleeds all over and they start to scream and then a girl passes out.
Poor mister Corpsy. You were too delicious. You're in a better place now. Mah belly!
Have a safe and happy Halloween and feel free to mail me your Halloween pictures, preferably with corpse cake awesomeness.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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