I was given the challenge of making a skull birthday cake so I thought I'd give it a go. It took a lot of thinking about before starting but with a few photos of real skulls I managed a pretty good result I think. Three layers of sponge with buttercream filling gave me a good size block to start carving using templates I'd made from the photos. I was going to put red jam in it but I thought that might make it a bit unstable. A thin layer of black paste for the eyes and nose was covered with the white paste, leaving the lower jaw, which I made separately. Then I just added the teeth and stuck the knife in the top of the poor guys head. A few drops of blood dripping onto the rose, air-brushed blood red, and the job was done.
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