Vampire's Day Soiree- Part 2: Valentine Vampire Cake

In honour of today being February 14th, HSL is taking part in the Vampire's Day Soiree, being run by Holly at Holly's Horrorland! So, instead of cheesy, sickly sweet, love-themed posts, you'll be getting some amazing, blood-drenched, vampire posts. Okay, so the posts here will probably be just as cheesy, but I'm sure some of the other participants will be able to give you something a little more sophisticated and refined ;) You'll find a list of the other participants and links to their blogs at the end of each Vampire's Day post here. That done with, on with part 2 of the sanguinary fun!

Part 2: Vampire-themed Cake 

How to make this bloody cake!

You will need:

- 1 large rectangular sponge cake

- 2 small rectangular sponge cakes (I made mine, but you can always buy them if you want to)

- Fondant icing or marzipan

- Red and black food colouring

- Chocolate hearts

- Designer icing in red, or chocolate icing

- Sugar skull and spiderweb decorations

- Pastry brush / paintbrush

Cover the large cake with fondant icing to form the base

Using the red food colouring, paint the entire base with the pastry brush. Then apply streaks of black to create the effect above. The colouring will make the cake shiny while wet, but it is more matt when completely dry.

Cut the two smaller cakes into coffin-shaped cakes and stick them next to each other onto the base using the chocolate icing. Paint the top with more red colouring.

Using the fondant icing, make the shapes for the vampire, coffin edging, and lips. Paint them as desired and add some chocolate hearts in the empty side of the coffin. Don't worry if your vampire looks like a cross between a penguin and Ernest the Vampire. Mine did too! :D 

Add some fondant teeth and bloody fangs to the mouth and then add the chocolate icing heart, topped with white chocolate decorations and sugar skulls / spiderweb decorations wherever you want them. 

And you're done! 

I don't have a photo of it after it dried, but I think the gross, oozy, shiny blood look kind of works with this theme ;)

Other  Vampire's Day Soiree Participants:

• Emma of Little Gothic Horrors
• Nicole of Artwork By Living Dead Girl Nicole
• Lorelei Bell of Lorelei's Muse
• Lady Bethezda of Bethezda's Preoccupations
• Justine of Justine's Halloween
• Jason of HalloweenOverkill
• Jeremy [Retro Zombie] of iZombieLover
• Althea of Blue Sky Gazing
• Jen of Zombies are Magic!
• Pensive Pumpkin of Pensive Pumpkin
• Greg of Rise and Fight
• Matt of Spooky Halloween Arts
• Dalestair Kidd of The Nightmares of Zodiac
• Sary Walrus of The Walrus Room
• Amy of Stripy Tights and Dark Delights
• Charlotte of Lady Charlotte's House of Delirium
• Alexandria Web of Queens of the Wild Frontier
• Annie Walls of Annie Walls
• Cayce of Fighting Dreamer
• Luna of Turkce Gotik
• Jessica of The Halloween Ladybug
• Sheridan of The Zombie Moshpit
• VictorianKitty of Sophistique Noir Gothic Fashion Blog
• Jo of Time Is Poisoned
• Niamh of Thoughts Of Smashed Doll
• S. L. Hennessy of Pensuasion
• Amber of The Aspiring Goth
• DuskRose of The Midnight Ballroom
• Carolin the HouseCat of Domesticated Goth
• Lynoire of Milking The Rolling Cow
• Angie of Lariats and Lavender
• Chris of The Toxic Void
• Mira of Detectives and Dragons
• Nightwind of The Gothic Embrace
• Alastair of App'y Talk

Blog Events: Vampire's Day Soiree

What do you think of when you hear the date "February 14th"? Valentine's Day? Slushy cards? Candy hearts? Flowers? Blood-sucking vampires? What? You don't think of blood-sucking vampires? (I'm ignoring Erinia's answers here ;D) Well, you should, because as well as being Valentine's Day, February 14th is also Vampire's Day! At least...thanks to Holly at Holly's Horrorland it is! 

The Vampire's Day Soiree is a virtual event, in which those of us who would rather watch a horror than a romantic comedy, can immerse ourselves in everything dedicated to the scary sanguines and have fun viewing the offerings of the other participants too! All you need to do in order to take part is visit the sign up post at Holly's Horrorland (click the picture above), comment with your Name, blog name, and URL, and place a link from your blog back to the event page. Oh, and remember to make a vampire-themed post on February 14th of course!