THE WALKING DEAD!

An intriguing request from one of my best customers and coworker, Jorge wanted to have a 'Walking Dead' themed birthday cake! He had an idea of hands/arms/zombies trying to get out from a door, that he requested be modeled after his apartment.  After googling some inspirations I got to work creating my very first fondant hands, and after a few tries nailed it! This cake was so much fun to make!! The eerie hands wouldn't be complete without some gory blood all over (red food coloring) which I dipped each of the hands in and smeared across the cake before I set them in place.  To make it look even more forbidding I created fondant chain links and a lock 'latching the door shut' and spray painted them with edible vanilla silver coloring AND painted across the door "DON'T OPEN DEAD INSIDE".  The cake was a humongous hit and I couldn't have been any happier with the results!

One Tier, Two Layer Vanilla Cake

{2-13x9 inch rectangles}

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting