Clever Cake Studio

Someone suggested I do a Lovecraft inspired cake. The idea intrigued me.

Here is Cthulhu rising from the oceans, using a convenient little island with a tower on it to climb up. The base was cherry-chip cake, the island and tower a mix of cherry chip and yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Also used small chocolate ‘pearls’ as rocks. Cthulhu himself is all fondant, with two chocolate pearls that I seeped in red dye for eyes.

This second photo is at the party… a chocolate truffle was added to the top. Seems like reasonable motivation to wake an elder god. There were really, really good truffles, made by a friend.

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.

I’m starting off with this cake, because it’s the oldest photo of a cake I’ve done that I can find. This was done for my younger brother’s birthday, and was very rich. Cherry-amaretto cake and dark chocolate cake layered with amaretto-vanilla cream, covered in chocolate ganache and studded with maraschino cherries. I think this was in April of 2004.