cupcakedex:

Happy Halloween! I made zombie Pikachu cakes! Using a silicone Pikachu mold from Japan, I dyed my cake batter green and got this gnarly result! I then made some buttercream icing and dyed it pink, put it in a makeshift piping bag and made the squiggly brains. Then I added some red food gel to add the gore, and viola! My friend had bought me this mold back in December 2014, and when I first used it, the resulting Pikachu faces were just full of holes and not very smooth. My partner commented that they looked like they could be zombie Pikachus, and the idea just stuck with me! I also loved the idea of making Pikachu look all gross and gnarly, haha.



Here are all of the zombie-chus I made!



Now, the Pikachu mold I used for these can only make 4 Pika at a time. It takes about 30 minutes to bake one batch, you have to wait another 15 minutes for the cakes to cool before removing them from the mold, plus the silicone mold has to be very thoroughly cleaned, dried, and re-greased between batches. (I even have to use a toothpick to clean out the detailed parts of the mold.) As a result, making 16 of these guys took about 3 hours, and that’s before adding the brains and gore.

Still, I had a blast making them with my partner, and they were a huge hit!

