{"id":15568,"date":"2012-08-15T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15568"},"modified":"2012-08-08T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:16:44","slug":"a-wave-from-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15568","title":{"rendered":"A Wave from the Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gravecake-150x145.jpg\" alt=\"Grave Cake\" title=\"Grave Cake\" width=\"150\" height=\"145\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I&#8217;m enormously taken with <a href=\"http:\/\/wscwong.typepad.com\/dessert_by_candy\/2006\/10\/a-wave-from-the.html\">this<\/a> splendidly simple cake-decorating idea from Dessert by Candy: A little bit of cookie-crumb &#8220;dirt&#8221; and some fingers made from marzipan turn a plain cake into something marvelously creepy.<\/p>\n<p>She provides a recipe for the cake she made, but you could substitute your own favorite recipe.  I quite like the smooth, shiny look of the dark-chocolate glaze, but regular frosting (or fondant, if you want a smooth surface but not a glaze) could be used instead.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of marzipan, the fingers could be made of fondant or white <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyofbaking.com\/ModelingChoc.html\">modeling chocolate<\/a> (which is what I initially thought they were), and could also be the &#8220;witch finger&#8221; cookies for which recipes abound: Some good-looking ones are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recipegirl.com\/2008\/08\/11\/witch-finger-cookies\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/356428\/ladies-fingers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ghostly-white color is nice, but you could also use food coloring to tint your marzipan\/chocolate\/fondant either a more natural flesh tone or a zombie-esque green.  I do think that the sliced almonds would look a bit more natural pressed slightly into the backs of the fingers rather than perched on top.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a fairly fast and easy way to spook up a cake, this has the advantage of looking rather elegant instead of going for the gross-out factor.  It would be a fine dessert for a grown-up Halloween party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m enormously taken with this splendidly simple cake-decorating idea from Dessert by Candy: A little bit of cookie-crumb &#8220;dirt&#8221; and some fingers made from marzipan turn a plain cake into something marvelously creepy. She provides a recipe for the cake she made, but you could substitute your own favorite recipe. I quite like the smooth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15740,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}