Sad Psycho

This was a bit more of a group project since I got my kids involved. We had a leftover slab of cake from a previous entry, as well as some left over fondant that was a bit dry and crumbling. I had heard of people making “cake balls” from the scraps left over from cake carving projects and I had some I thought might be moldable. (Is that a word?) So, I decided to jump once more into the fray and create another entry featuring a small figure made from cake scraps.

I had been eyeing Michael Fuchs’s Sad Psycho design for awhile and it seemed the perfect subject for my cake figure shaping project. The results were a disgusting gooey mess that I couldn’t even trick my kids into eating.

However, by then I was emotionally committed to the Sad Psycho cake so I went for the rice cereal treats and re-sculpted the sad little psycho. I worked some shortening into my crumbling fondant and temporarily revived it enough to start covering the figure. That consumed most of the white fondant.

I took the remnants of colored fondant and mixed them together, added some red food coloring to the mix and got a workable shade of gray to cover the cake remnant. I cut the cake to look less remnant-ish and prepared to frost it.

My son mixed up some frosting but used granulated sugar rather than confectioner’s sugar and the resulting mixture was a bit grainy and abrasive but onto the cake it went (in all the excitement we failed to get a photos of just the froted cake but it didn't look that strange; only the texture was off) followed by the fondant.

My daughter became a bit concerned with the activity of the sad little figure and asked what the red splatters were. She suggested it might be tomato sauce so I formed a tomato that had been cut in half and added it to the cake.

Thanks to the sand paper frosting the cake had a sweet and gritty flavor which earned mixed reviews from those who ventured a taste.