{"id":223,"date":"2019-11-11T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:07:16","slug":"brain-cake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/brain-cake-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my last post I showed the cake that I entered for my work&#8217;s Halloween Baking contest.  I entered a &#8220;Brain Cake&#8221; which is exactly what it sounds like &#8211; a cake shaped like a brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly easy to make &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bake cakes (I coloured them pink) <\/li><li>Stack cakes, then trim the edges. Take the off-cuts and put on the top to create a dome<\/li><li>Cover in buttercream (I had some red left over from other cakes so I added this too)<\/li><li>Colour some fondant using ivory food colouring and a tiny amount of pink<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165229-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165229-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165229-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165229-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Cake on left, fondant on right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Roll the fondant out into &#8220;ropes&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165850-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165850-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165850-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_165850-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Apply the ropes to cake to form &#8220;brain matter&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_170216-e1572601027860-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_170216-e1572601027860-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_170216-e1572601027860-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_172611-e1572601001724-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_172611-e1572601001724-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_172611-e1572601001724-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Coat in strawberry jam<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_172635-e1572600985879-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_172635-e1572600985879-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_172635-e1572600985879-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_173450-e1572600971909-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_173450-e1572600971909-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191030_173450-e1572600971909-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Brain Cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I showed the cake that I entered for my work&#8217;s Halloween Baking contest. I entered a &#8220;Brain Cake&#8221; which is exactly what it sounds like &#8211; a cake shaped like a brain. It&#8217;s surprisingly easy to make &#8230; Bake cakes (I coloured them pink) Stack cakes, then trim the edges. Take &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/brain-cake-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brain Cake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,34,5,35],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake","tag-baking","tag-brain-cake","tag-cake","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}