we have a tivo....however, we really don't use it to its full potential (for several reasons). one program, however, that we are religious about recording and watching is The Food Network Challenge - primarily cake competitions.
last week, being halloween, they had a Horror Cakes competition...and while this cake wasn't the winning one, it won over porter's heart.
the 'story' of the cake is that some possessed flour shows up at eddie's bake shop and the things that are baked with it have their way with eddie. look closely at those cupcakes...that's what porter wanted for his birthday treat at school.
so...being the supportive parents that we are...we decided to take the challenge.
and now starts our lesson on:
How to Make Flesh Eating Cupcakes
1. Bake cupcakes...preferably very whimsical...it makes them all that much more frightening when they become flesh eating. (porter chose strawberry and funfetti as his two flavors...)
(notice the burned oven mitt...that happened when i left jason in the kitchen earlier this week...)
2. Draw iris/pupil onto lemonhead candies to make the eyeballs (be sure to do this with edible markers!) We used red and green colored markers.
3. Pipe a black mouth.
4. Frost cupcakes in a whimsical ,fun way with whimsical, fun colors (after all, these were supposed to be friendly cupcakes...)
5. Add eyeballs, pushing them into the frosting to create somewhat menacing eyelids.
6. Pipe scary capable-of-tearing-the-flesh-from-your-bones teeth. Or something like that.
7. Add creepy red bags under their eyes...
8. Add blood to "King Cupcake" as we called it...that's the one we made for Porter (that is 'full sized').
9. And you're done!
and here's an up-close look at Porter's King Cupcake.
I hope they're all he hoped them to be when he sees them tomorrow - when he turns the big SIX!
(notice the burned oven mitt...that happened when i left jason in the kitchen earlier this week...)2. Draw iris/pupil onto lemonhead candies to make the eyeballs (be sure to do this with edible markers!) We used red and green colored markers.
3. Pipe a black mouth.
4. Frost cupcakes in a whimsical ,fun way with whimsical, fun colors (after all, these were supposed to be friendly cupcakes...)
5. Add eyeballs, pushing them into the frosting to create somewhat menacing eyelids.
6. Pipe scary capable-of-tearing-the-flesh-from-your-bones teeth. Or something like that.
7. Add creepy red bags under their eyes...
8. Add blood to "King Cupcake" as we called it...that's the one we made for Porter (that is 'full sized').
9. And you're done!
and here's an up-close look at Porter's King Cupcake.
I hope they're all he hoped them to be when he sees them tomorrow - when he turns the big SIX!
