Mouse cake
What cake to make for the party Stacey and I had this past weekend? Well, we were mostly doing it to welcome the first years to Stanford to pretend that PhD students actually have lives. And since a lot of people in the cancer bio department work with mice and models of human cancer, I made a mouse... with cancer.
Lining up the cakes. Its two chocolate 9" round cakes (baked w/out cake strips so that it would dome in the center) and these oval cakes (from Wilton course II kit) filled with chocolate cream cheese frosting.
Carved cakes. The tail was just leftover cake and a little bit of frosting mushed together and molded.
Cakes were "spackle" coated (covered in a mixture of leftover cake crumbs and buttercream frosting until it takes on a paste-like consistency) and refrigerated overnight. The tumor (as our Governator would not say "It IS a tumah) was a cupcake covered with spackle.
Mouse covered in fondant. Awwww, isn't it cute?!?
But its time for an injection!
Completed mouse
Top view
Time to cute the mouse
Is it wrong that I decapitated the mouse??? (For any science nerds out there, notice the tag we added to the mouse's left ear to ID it from its other mouse-cake friends)
Lining up the cakes. Its two chocolate 9" round cakes (baked w/out cake strips so that it would dome in the center) and these oval cakes (from Wilton course II kit) filled with chocolate cream cheese frosting.
Carved cakes. The tail was just leftover cake and a little bit of frosting mushed together and molded.
Cakes were "spackle" coated (covered in a mixture of leftover cake crumbs and buttercream frosting until it takes on a paste-like consistency) and refrigerated overnight. The tumor (as our Governator would not say "It IS a tumah) was a cupcake covered with spackle.
Mouse covered in fondant. Awwww, isn't it cute?!?
But its time for an injection!
Completed mouse
Top view
Time to cute the mouse
Is it wrong that I decapitated the mouse??? (For any science nerds out there, notice the tag we added to the mouse's left ear to ID it from its other mouse-cake friends)