Eat the cake, before it eats you

Today’s my parents’ 31st wedding anniversary! Yay!
I wanted to surprise them with a cake, but couldn’t think of ANYTHING D:
Because I really didn’t want to make another LEGO cake or something patchwork-y.
You know how the 25th anniversary, for example, is the silver one and the 50th the golden one, right? Well, I asked dear uncle Google if there are other names and THIS is what I found (it’s in German). It says ‘lime tree’ next to 31 (although I’m not sure how…accurate this list is, since the next one would be ‘soap’…), so I thought making a cake of a tree would make sense and be nice
At first I wanted to make a tree trunk with a heart and my parents’ initials carved into it, but then my sister suggested that I could make a tree with a face and with twigs in the shape of a heart (because that’s less cliché)…and so I did
It turned out to look…a bit creepier than I had planned and sketched, but I still really like it (I think it’s my favourite cake so far >w<)

My sister named him ‘Barkie’, just so you know 8D

Yes, the tree is winking at you 8D

I really like his teeth~

I didn’t have a brush (or at least not one I would use for something that’s going to be eaten), so I used a q-tip (a clean one, of course) to colour the eye

This is the first time I put wire into a cake~ I know lots of people use it when making fondant figures, so I thought I’d try it out as well and used it in the branches~ It’s way easier to work this way *-*

See the 31 on the back? 8DD~~~

Barkie in our garden, with money leafs (which my sister lay down with the underside up, don’t ask me why…)
I thought giving my parents 31€ with the cake would be nice

Evil Barkie

Good Barkie

My parents said they would eat him…if he doesn’t eat them first 8D

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~ by deweird on May 5, 2011.