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Step 5More misc junk
The 4 houses were baked with Wiltons house pan. It makes a decent base for a house. We wanted them to all look different. Lots of colored fondant.
The pumpkin patch is sunk so that we could add a chocolate cake here. We were hoping to hide a cake there so the entire ground looked the same. So, all of the ground is fondant. We also covered the haunted house with fondant to keep continuity with the other houses. The goal was to be a bit spookier but we really ran out of time the night before the party. BTW, the ground you see around the yard of the haunted house took 2 of us about 2 1/2 hours to make. Never thought it would take that long. The bushes that hide the purple lights are made from a sponge and painted to look like fall bushes. The hills that the graveyard and haunted house set on are foam used for walls. I glued together sheets of foam then cut with the band saw and final formed with a knife and sandpaper. Lili made all of the gravestones from clay. I used the scrap from this Styrofoam to make the pillars for the gargoyles. The small trees and pumpkins were also made from clay.
Most of stuff we made but we did cheat this time and bought some Lemax miniature stuff for lighting the streets around the town and the fence around the pumpkin patch and gargoyles (we made the pillars). The kids are actually Polly Pockets with their legs cut off to shorten them. Then Lili made costumes for each child for the Halloween celebration. With so much other junk to do for this party it really made it easier to buy some of the accessories (we decorated the yard as well). The skeleton in the coffin was ripped off of a Halloween straw. I think everything else we made on the cake, there was still a lot to do, really.
Crushed dreams. I really wanted to light a piece of frosted plexi/lexan above and to the right of the haunted house to look like a moon. To me that would have finished the cake. Was not to be, time ran out. Also wanted some chasing ghosts using a light and rotating disc (with ghost images cut in) coming from the haunted window against some mesh. That one did notmake it either but that is ok, I do not know how good that would look at a small scale anyway. Also some fog in the graveyard. We tried fog from dry ice and it gooified the fondant to a sticky mess. Must find a way around that next time.
There is about 12 pounds of fondant total on the cake. Most of it went uneaten but we wanted it all to look the same.
The pumpkin patch is sunk so that we could add a chocolate cake here. We were hoping to hide a cake there so the entire ground looked the same. So, all of the ground is fondant. We also covered the haunted house with fondant to keep continuity with the other houses. The goal was to be a bit spookier but we really ran out of time the night before the party. BTW, the ground you see around the yard of the haunted house took 2 of us about 2 1/2 hours to make. Never thought it would take that long. The bushes that hide the purple lights are made from a sponge and painted to look like fall bushes. The hills that the graveyard and haunted house set on are foam used for walls. I glued together sheets of foam then cut with the band saw and final formed with a knife and sandpaper. Lili made all of the gravestones from clay. I used the scrap from this Styrofoam to make the pillars for the gargoyles. The small trees and pumpkins were also made from clay.
Most of stuff we made but we did cheat this time and bought some Lemax miniature stuff for lighting the streets around the town and the fence around the pumpkin patch and gargoyles (we made the pillars). The kids are actually Polly Pockets with their legs cut off to shorten them. Then Lili made costumes for each child for the Halloween celebration. With so much other junk to do for this party it really made it easier to buy some of the accessories (we decorated the yard as well). The skeleton in the coffin was ripped off of a Halloween straw. I think everything else we made on the cake, there was still a lot to do, really.
Crushed dreams. I really wanted to light a piece of frosted plexi/lexan above and to the right of the haunted house to look like a moon. To me that would have finished the cake. Was not to be, time ran out. Also wanted some chasing ghosts using a light and rotating disc (with ghost images cut in) coming from the haunted window against some mesh. That one did notmake it either but that is ok, I do not know how good that would look at a small scale anyway. Also some fog in the graveyard. We tried fog from dry ice and it gooified the fondant to a sticky mess. Must find a way around that next time.
There is about 12 pounds of fondant total on the cake. Most of it went uneaten but we wanted it all to look the same.
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