Werewolves have been playing a big role in my Halloween preparations this year, with several of Universal’s classic werewolf movies making up a sizable portion of my Halloween movie viewing. So perhaps it’s no surprise that this guy grabbed my attention right away. Always on the lookout for a themed cake for Halloween, I spotted him in the October issue of Canadian Living magazine. Now one thing I really like about this magazine is that it can usually be counted on to keep its recipes interesting, yet simple, so I thought . . . this might just be do-able for me. I suppose, in retrospect, the first mistake was failing to notice that the recipe started with one rectangular cake instead of two round ones. At that point, perhaps I should have cut my losses, put the two round cakes together and called it a pumpkin cake . . . but no, I thought, I can still make this work. Once it’s covered with icing, it’ll look just like the picture, right? Sure. So, a little creative cutting here . . . a little improvisation there . . . a ridiculously HUGE amount of chocolate icing later . . . and my Wolfman was complete. Well, okay, perhaps not prize-winning material, but I’ve made worse . . . much worse. He even looks a bit like Lon Chaney . . . sort of. Or maybe a bit like a sasquatch.
I’ve been reading the Halloween entries on one of my favourite blogs this week and I think my werewolf might fit in quite well there. Maybe I’ll drop them a line . . .
Werewolves have been playing a big role in my Halloween preparations this year, with several of Universal’s classic werewolf movies making up a sizable portion of my Halloween movie viewing. So perhaps it’s no surprise that this guy grabbed my attention right away. Always on the lookout for a themed cake for Halloween, I spotted him in the October issue of Canadian Living magazine. Now one thing I really like about this magazine is that it can usually be counted on to keep its recipes interesting, yet simple, so I thought . . . this might just be do-able for me. I suppose, in retrospect, the first mistake was failing to notice that the recipe started with one rectangular cake instead of two round ones. At that point, perhaps I should have cut my losses, put the two round cakes together and called it a pumpkin cake . . . but no, I thought, I can still make this work. Once it’s covered with icing, it’ll look just like the picture, right? Sure. So, a little creative cutting here . . . a little improvisation there . . . a ridiculously HUGE amount of chocolate icing later . . . and my Wolfman was complete. Well, okay, perhaps not prize-winning material, but I’ve made worse . . . much worse. He even looks a bit like Lon Chaney . . . sort of. Or maybe a bit like a sasquatch.
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