"It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
Inside the floor board cake was buried a small hand-cast chocolate heart
The Heart
JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë
I removed, crushed up, and replaced the center..."hidden madness."
Two layers of Bergamot Vanilla Cake and Gray Sky Buttercream.
Topped with dried Reed grasses and a burnt sugar Thornfield Hall
FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff
A Ylang-Ylang-scented layer and an orange layer filled with Creme Patisserie. Frosted with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and topped with spun sugar.
Served on a platter from the artist Helen Levi's OCEAN line.
THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
Based off of the opening line, the cake is covered in sky blue buttercream, flower sprinkles, and chocolate rocks. Atop sits a 3-legged stool and an aged black box filled with slips of paper.
Black Chocolate Cake with Blood-Red Filling. One person received a slice with a hidden, marked, slip of paper
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Into the Water by Paula HawkinsThree layers of Black Chocolate Cake frosted and filled with Rosemary Swiss Meringue Buttercream, covered in Mirror Glaze and patches of sugar cookie “moss.” Rests atop a giant “moss” sugar cookie.The key:Three layers (Height, such as that of a cliff.)Black Chocolate Cake (Both the bottom of the drowning pool and a nod to black-hearted)Rosemary Swiss Meringue Buttercream (In the Language of Flowers, Rosemary means Remembrance/Memory. As well, a nod to green/verdant/forest.) Mirror Glaze colored deep blue, deep green, deep brown, and red (The glaze “drowns” the cake. It is reflective like the surface of water. The blue, green, and brown colors of water and forest, the red, of blood/death.)Cake is patched in and rests atop a “Moss” Sugar Cookie (The environment, growth, and encroachment.)
With the author!
The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonTwo layers of pristine white cake filled and frosted (suffocated) with rose-perfumed (Rosedale) Swiss Meringue Buttercream. The sides show damage beneath the gilded facade. On top rest, sprigs of dried (dead) lilies, flowers made from wedding dress tulle, and dried roses.
Slice-view
Top-view
This cake was inspired by the new Penguin Graphics Classics edition of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and created to celebrate the promotion of a colleague.
Coraline by Neil GaimanRead all about it here
The cake and the spool of "black thread."
View from the (unfrosted) top.
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
"It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
Inside the floor board cake was buried a small hand-cast chocolate heart
The Heart
JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë
I removed, crushed up, and replaced the center..."hidden madness."
Two layers of Bergamot Vanilla Cake and Gray Sky Buttercream.
Topped with dried Reed grasses and a burnt sugar Thornfield Hall
FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff
A Ylang-Ylang-scented layer and an orange layer filled with Creme Patisserie. Frosted with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and topped with spun sugar.
Served on a platter from the artist Helen Levi's OCEAN line.
THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
Based off of the opening line, the cake is covered in sky blue buttercream, flower sprinkles, and chocolate rocks. Atop sits a 3-legged stool and an aged black box filled with slips of paper.
Black Chocolate Cake with Blood-Red Filling. One person received a slice with a hidden, marked, slip of paper
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