![]() ![]() The night before, I used brown gel paste food coloring and some vodka to brush some color onto the mask with a paint brush, then used a paper towel to rub it in and remove excess paint for a stained/dirty look. I set the mask over a roll of paper towels with a small ball of gum paste under the nose for shape and let it dry for 3 days to ensure the curve was firm enough to hold up once it was placed on the cake. Although the holes could have been smaller, I didn't have any smaller tools to make it match the template. ![]() I used a simple template I found online to shape the mask and coordinate where the holes went. Gum paste generally doesn't taste very good, but mixed with the buttercream flavored fondant it could have been eaten and taste not so bad. I decided to try out a 50/50 mixture of buttercream fondant and gum paste. The first task at hand was figuring out how to make the mask. She wanted red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and filling, black fondant and lots of blood! Now that's my kind of cake! She had great ideas for the cake and sent me this picture as inspiration: When I got an email from Sunshine, a new customer - requesting a bloody Friday the 13th cake with the Jason Voorhees mask for her son's birthday.I was all over it! ![]()
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