Halloween Cake, Part II

I'll keep this short because it's 02:00 and I'm quite tired now as I've just finished making my Halloween cake for work.

If you remember the sketch from a couple of weeks ago it was supposed to look like this.

First, a little bit of prep work. I've been making some vanilla sugar for the last few weeks (I say 'making', but all I did was put a vanilla pod in some sugar) so I'm going to use that in the cake.

... and I need some coloured icing, too.

I'll skip the cake baking thing, so it's just about making the pumpkin...

My first quadruple-decker cake :-). It's a bit burnt around the edges but I'm going to cut them off anyway so it doesn't really matter.

I put it in the freezer for an hour so it was a bit firmer and easier to hack around with.

A marzipan wrap so the icing has a smoother finish. I used apricot jam as a glue to hold it in place. It's also starting to creep me out a little bit.

Another layer of jam and coloured icing creates the finished product. I've carved out the face just like the real thing.

So there we go. I'm quite pleased with it, if I do say so myself...