Clever Cake Studio

I went for something cartoony. The cake base was just yellow cake with almond extract, and the armadillo itself is, of course, red velvet, with cherries in the center for a particularly gory effect. Later, at the party itself, I add scale-like texture to the band on its shell since people kept thinking it was just roadkill. Oddly not-flattened roadkill. If I ever make one of these again, I may try actually doing fondant scales.

This was for a friend’s birthday party, for which the theme was “White Trash.” It looked great next to the spam carvings and bowl of individually wrapped Twinkies.

Traditionally, Bleeding Armadillo Cakes tend to be for southern grooms’ cakes.

The face, tongue, tail and feet are fondant.

The cutting was particularly gruesome.