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Zombie Arm Cake

Creepin' it real!

Looks can be deceiving… Especially for this zombie arm which may look totally gruesome and scary but is actually made of sweet cake and sweeter jam! If you really want to spook your friends this Halloween, try this zombie arm cake!

This Zombie Arm Cake begins with my Ultimate Vanilla Cake dyed a gruesome green and drenched in red simple syrup then stacked with Italian Meringue Buttercream dyed a disgusting pus colour and filled with chunky strawberry jam blood - GROSS! A recipe of sculpting rice krispies was used for the hands, with black gum paste shaped into nails This zombie arm features a brutal rash, gashes, and cuts which are filled with strings of red licorice - for the tendons of course. This cake may look scary on the outside but is absolutely delicious making it the perfect trick AND treat!

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Baking The Cake:

16lbs Yo’s Ultimate Vanilla Cake

½ recipe of Sculpting Rice Krispie Mixture

Icing The Cake:

1 batch of Simple Syrup

1 batch of Yo’s Italian Meringue Buttercream

Decorating The Cake:

Ivory modelling chocolate

Buttercup yellow modelling chocolate

Moss green modelling chocolate

Golden yellow modelling chocolate

3 cups of strawberry or cherry jam

4lbs green fondant - taupe, moss green, buttercup yellow

Red Shoestring Licorice

Gel colours: taupe, white, ivory, brown, red, burgundy

Item Name:	Availability:
2 x 11x15" cake pans	Add to Cart -
Parchment Paper	Add to Cart -
Simple Syrup Bottle	Add to Cart - $19.99
Oval Cutter	Add to Cart - $54.99
18 Gauge Floral Wire	Add to Cart -
Brulee Torch
CMC
Small Paring Knife	Add to Cart -
Small Straight & Offset Spatula	Add to Cart - $14.99
Large Serrated Knife	Add to Cart -
Spoon
Large Fork
Manicure Scissors
Cel Sticks

Bake Your Cakes

Dye your cake batter with a mix of buttercup yellow, moss green, leaf green, and brown to give it a dirty green hue. Divide into your 2 parchment lined 11x15” pans and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 50 minutes.

Let your cakes cool completely in their pans before removing.

Level & Decaramelize

Remove your cakes from their pans then level and decaramelize the bottoms and sides of each cake. Save the humps for later.

Cut the Cake!

Using a large serrated knife, cut each cake in half lengthwise then stack them on top of each other so you’re left with two stacked up cakes. Cut the humps to the same size and place one on each stack.

Carve pt. 1

Use your arm as a model to shape and carve one of the cakes into a bicep. Next, shape the other cake into a forearm. Carve the cakes until you are happy with the shape of both parts of the arm.

Keep It Simple!

Unstack your layers. Mix your red gel colour into your simple syrup then use Sir Squeeze-A-Lot to soak both sides of all your layers. Let them sit for a couple minutes to fully absorb.

Coloured IMBC

Colour your IMBC using a mix of ivory, buttercup yellow, moss green, and golden yellow to create a pus coloured buttercream.

Blood Jam

Add some red gel colouring to your strawberry (or cherry) jam to give it a brighter tone.

Fill & Stack

Fill and stack your cake layers back into their shapes with IMBC. Spoon in clumps of jam as you go.

Zombie Hand

Make half a batch of my sculpting rice krispies then form a hand shape without the fingers (just the palm).

Crumb Coat & Chill → Ice Ice Cakey

Crumb coat the palm with IMBC then place it in the fridge until firm. Remove the hand from the fridge, ice it once again, and let it chill.

Fondant

Roll out some green fondant. Cover the top of the arm, forearm, and hand.

Zombie Fingers

Add CMC to ½ lbs of green fondant (this will help it stiffen up) then begin to form and sculpt 4 fingers and a thumb. Use sculpting tools to form the knuckles and nail beds. Once you are satisfied with the shapes, brush some piping gel onto your floral wire then insert it into each finger.

Assembly

Add the fingers to the hand then carefully bend them into shape. Press and pinch veins into the hand to make it look more realistic.

Bones

Use some white modeling chocolate to form bones. Let them chill in the fridge.

Fingernails

Roll out some thin black gumpaste then use oval cutters to cut out nails. Shape each one to the finger and trim accordingly.

Zombification

Use a spoon to gash open and spoon out cake from the shoulder and forearm. With a sharp paring knife, cut the gashes open and peel back the fondant. Next, use a large fork to create scratches all over the arm. To create a rash on the arm, begin by using a ball tool to indent the arm. Use a small xacto knife to scratch the fondant.

Hand Assembly

Trim away fondant from the top of the wrist and end of the hand. Push the two parts together until they stick.

Paint

Use a dry brush to soften the paint. Mix together ivory with food grade alcohol then paint the entire arm. Paint over the gashes and scratches with red and brown.

Blood Jam

Mix more jam if necessary with the red and burgundy food colouring. Add the jam mixture to all the openings on the arm. Next, cut your licorice up into shorter strands and mix it into the jam then add it to the openings.

Exposed Bones

Lay the bones you made previously into the openings and add more jam on top. Paint the bones with a little ivory to darken the colour.

Bubbling Cuts

Brulee over the cuts and gashes on the arm just to bubble the paint - not until it’s brown.

More Blood Jam

Add more jam to the wrist and at the base of all the fingers to hide the seams. Pull the pinky finger out and add licorice between as if the finger has been detached and is holding on just by the licorice.

Zombie Manicure

Use manicure scissors to cut the finger nails up so that they look rougher.

Pus

Poke the rash areas with small cel sticks the pipe in a bit of IMBC to look like pus oozing out.

Bake Your Cakes

Level & Decaramelize

Cut the Cake!

Carve pt. 1

Keep It Simple!

Coloured IMBC

Blood Jam

Fill & Stack

Zombie Hand

Crumb Coat & Chill → Ice Ice Cakey

Fondant

Zombie Fingers

Assembly

Bones

Fingernails

Zombification

Hand Assembly

Paint

Blood Jam

Exposed Bones

Bubbling Cuts

More Blood Jam

Zombie Manicure

Pus

Congratulations!