Katie called a few months ago about a cake for her aunt's 65th birthday. In her family, they do things a little differently on milestone birthdays. They throw a theme party with something the guest of honor dislikes immensely. Her aunt believed she was having a Hawaiian themed party, but she didn't know it was going to be overrun with cockroaches! So Katie thought it would be funny to make the cake as a large dead cockroach and even provided a picture for reference. We were happy to help.
We were all getting the creeps in the kitchen looking at the photo and designing the cake. One team started work on the wooden floor boards for the delightful creature to have its final rest. They started out with a lemon cake and vanilla buttercream. Once they had the cake iced, they started adding some layers of various shades of brown to give it a stained wood look with a few dark swirls for the grain to stand out. They then used chocolate ganache to pipe the seams and they were ready for the second team to do their part.
During all this, the second team made a lemon cake roll for the body of the cockroach. They used a reddish brown fondant in different shades to cover the belly portion and back. Once that was done, the real fun began. We had to attach all the legs and cover them with little hairs. Those big ugly eyes got us all laughing and feeling sorry for Katie's aunt at the same time. Then the two big long black antennae and we were done.
We apologize for those of you who were visiting us in Centreville last weekend and thought bugs of unusual sizes were running loose. We promise we run a tight ship! And to Katie, I hope you watch out on your next milestone birthday, you never know what could be in store for you! So join us for a good laugh and thank goodness that cockroaches DO NOT live to get that big! Celebrate the last little bit of summer we have left with a cupcake on us through Sunday, August 21 when you mention our blog. Until next week.
That cake looks crazy!
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