Severed Arm Cake

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Intro: Severed Arm Cake

First I sculpted the marrow of the bones out of sugar paste, or fondant
I made the marrow for the hand bones too, and then I let it harden.

STEP 1: Make the Bones..

I covered the "marrow" with white chocolate to create the bones.

STEP 2: The Rat's Heads

I sculped the rat's heads out of grey sugar paste and painted them with red gel
food coloring. The teeth were made from gum paste, which is like sugar paste

STEP 3: The Rat's Bodies

I baked two red velvet mini loaf cakes and carved them into the shape of the
rat's bodies. Then I frosted them with vanilla frosting tinted with red gel
food coloring.

I covered the rats bodies with rolled out fondant and blended it into the head

STEP 4: Make the Arm Cake

I baked a large red velvet cake and cut half into the shape of an arm.
I dug out a trench in the middle and layed the bones inside.
I filled the center with blended cherry pie filling so it would ooze out when
it was cut. after this photo, I placed another cake on top and carved it into
the arm shape.

STEP 5: Cover With Fondant

I rolled out skin colored fondant and placed it over the hand and arm.
I sculpted the finger "skin" around the bones.

STEP 6: Fingernails

I made ridged fingernails out of gum paste and lightly painted them with food
coloring to give them a dirty yellowed appearance.

STEP 7: Blood

The blood was made from clear cake decorating gel colored with gel food coloring.

STEP 8: Rat's Tails

I made rat tails out of fondant and attached them with toothpicks.

20 Comments

This is on par with anything coming out Hollywood! Really impressive. Great first Ible. I can't wait to see what else you come up with. I'm sure it will be shocking fantastic!

Love how you "built up" the whole arm rather than just having a hunk of cake covered with fondant. Looked very real!

Holy cow, this is horrifylingly amazing!

Wow, love the detail you into account with the bones and all!

So creepy! But SO GOOD! well done! I'm so impressed you made those rats out of fondant!

Thank you! They were actually easier that they look! :)

Could you put the ingredient list for every thing you used for the frosting and fondant. Thanks

I just used boxed red velvet cake mix, and canned vanilla frosting that I tinted with red gel food coloring. I also used Wilton fondant and wilton clear piping gel that I tinted with the red gel food color. For the blood inside the bones, I blended frozen mixed berries and strained out the seeds :)

You should enter this in the "first time author" contest too.