Newest Work of Art

Yesterday was my boss's 40th birthday so of course I volunteered to make the cake. I had one of the girls from work Tahna help me with the cake. We decided to make it the shape of a coffin. The cake is Carrot and I had a great recipe for that and it is such a dense cake that it worked really well. The top of the coffin is just a piece of cardboard that we cut out to use as our stencil and then I covered it in the fondant. It was hard to get it to be black even with the black food coloring, but it turned out pretty good. I placed it on a cookie sheet and then spread the crushed oreos around to look like dirt. The worms are also made out of the fondant and I put some along the side under the cookies so that we could stick the candles in it. I used skewers to prop the lid open a little so that is what you can see inside. I wrote on the top with some extra cream cheese frosting I made and found I need some more practice writing with frosting. But overall it was a hit and turn out just about like I wanted it too!! I am glad the fondant worked this time.