{"id":20958,"date":"2014-02-19T06:27:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20958"},"modified":"2014-02-15T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T17:54:17","slug":"mail-a-slice-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20958","title":{"rendered":"Mail a Slice of Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cakepostcard-150x103.jpg\" alt=\"Cake Postcard\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>This isn&#8217;t precisely goth, but it&#8217;s such a brilliant idea that I have no choice but to share it.  Over at She Knows there&#8217;s a splendid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/living\/articles\/965787\/diy-cake-postcard-tutorial\">tutorial<\/a> for making a mailable slice of cake.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonderful trompe-l&#8217;oeil whose main ingredients are a sponge and some caulk.  The result is apparently quite durable and is certainly a memorable way to send a postcard.  There&#8217;s a related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/living\/articles\/972473\/pumpkin-pie-postcard\">pumpkin pie postcard<\/a> tutorial which could also be repurposed as a cheesecake.<\/p>\n<p>Either of these would be a really unique party or wedding invitation.  You could up the Goth Quotient a little by making the cake &#8220;red velvet&#8221; with black icing; since caulk is usually available in only a few colors you could either carefully tape the &#8220;cake&#8221; and paint the &#8220;icing&#8221; after it&#8217;s applied and dried or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finehomebuilding.com\/how-to\/tips\/customize-silicone-caulk-colors.aspx\">custom-color<\/a> it before application.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t feeling up to making these yourself, there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/TangBaby?ref=seller_info\">Etsy shop<\/a> which sells them pre-made.  A bit pricey if you want to send a lot of them, but reasonable for a one-off where you really want to make a splash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t precisely goth, but it&#8217;s such a brilliant idea that I have no choice but to share it. Over at She Knows there&#8217;s a splendid tutorial for making a mailable slice of cake. It&#8217;s a wonderful trompe-l&#8217;oeil whose main ingredients are a sponge and some caulk. The result is apparently quite durable and is [&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-20958","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\/20958","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=20958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20973,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20958\/revisions\/20973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}