Monsterous Birthday Cake

It's my friend Lynn's birthday this week and since she is in the middle of moving hoose I thought I could have her over for tea, away from all the boxes and moving paraphernalia. And of course you can't have a birthday tea without cake... My train of thought went cake ... Halloween ... Monsters ... Red velvet ... Cookie Monster.

 

I have made mini cookie monsters in the past but this is the first large one I have tried or red velvet cake so a little concerned about how it will turn out.

 

I found the red velvet recipe from Pinterest ... It is a strange recipe as I have never put buttermilk and vinegar in the same recipe before. But they seem popular recipes and i liked the challenge.

Cakes turned out good, although next time I'm gonna try more food colouring as these are more pink velvet cakes.

 

The BLUE icing is a cream cheese frosting with lots of blue food colouring

 

The eye was made from fondant and the pupil

is a chocolate button

 

Ii think I can safely say that the cake was a success.. We had very full bellys and a bit if a sugar buzz.