Little Bakeshop of Horrors

This year, everyone in our family put something into the guilford fair. I was going to do pictures, but I found out too late that they had to be ready and mounted on cardboard that very day. So, I decided, lets do some baking. I could do normal, regular baking, but, being a creative person, I wanted to do something more fun. The little bakeshop of horrors seemed just the thing. You get a cake, and decorate it in a creepy halloween themed style. I decided to take the play on words literally, and made the person-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors. After much planning, I set to work. In all, the cake took three days to finish decorating (granted I had homework and clubs and was busy these three days) First, I made leaves out of dark green fondant and smaller red leaves out of fondant. Then, we took an 8 inch circular cake and iced it with chocolate icing. Then, we cut the top bit of a plastic cup to make it shorter and inserted it into the cake so that one inch was sticking up out of the cake. Into this, we put the non muffin part of one cup cake so that it almost filled the cup leaving around a centimeter of free space. I draped around one third of the leaves (the large ones) over this so it was mostly hidden. Then, I iced the two muffin halves with green frosting and put one on the cup with the flat side up. I then stuck this half doll thingy inside so that her head and arms stuck out, and covered it with the other half. Now time to get fancy with the fondant! I rolled out the light green fondant into different sized tubes that got thinner near the ends and placed them thick side under the leaves at the top and the rest of it going down the cake. I added the dark green leaves to these. To add a little extra, I piped red vines along the cake and placed the red leaves in clusters of three along it to resemble poison ivy. After adding fondant teeth, a thick green neck, and red blood to the cake, it was done. And because of all that hard work, i won BEST IN SHOW, and FIRST PLACE as well :)))