I get asked a lot of questions about cakes. One of the most common questions I get is, "What can you do with a 9x13 cake? I don't want to bake a layer cake."
I happen to really, really like layer cakes. Might even have a small obsession with them. Like making them twenty five layers and rainbow inside obsession.
But every now and then its nice to just make a cake like mom made.
Well, minus the creepy millipedes.
You know what I mean.
So I found this picture of a giant millipede.
photo from here
That sucker is like a foot long. I do not like looking at pictures of creepy crawly things but I do like you so I sucked it up and moved forward.
This cake is a marriage between wanting to make something fun out of a regular old 9x13 cake and wanting to do something seasonal. (Halloween)
Hence the creepy crawly millipede cake.
After icing the cake with white frosting, I just added some black food coloring to the remaining frosting. I always use *Americolor Gel Food Coloring when I need to achieve deep, rich color.
Since I am more familiar with the tiny millipedes in real life, I knew I wanted to add some to this cake. They are what really got me... since those little rollie pollie ones look EXACTLY like the real thing.
Pretty much my skin has been crawling for a week now.
So there you have it. I see a Cake Challenge post in the futuree. Maybe even a candy post. Maybe I will just snuggle up next to this cake in bed because its so beautiful.
But that might be weird.
I do know one thing, and that is that I have a few more Halloween cakes to share!
Hope you like Halloween as much as me!
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