Gluttony Primer: The Cake of Pompeii

After conquering the unicorn and rainbow cake, I moved onto volcanoes. It’s the natural progression, I swear.

There was a double birthday party, and a cake of Pompeii miraculously synchronized interests of both birthday boys: disaster response and ancient Rome (It’s important to have a diverse group of friends).

I made marshmallow fondant once again, but put cocoa in it. This turned it into more of fudge than a fondant, and it was incredibly uncooperative. SOOO uncooperative that even after a good beating (kneading) and spending hours in refrigerated time-out, its disposition had not changed whatsoever. I HATE YOU CHOCOLATE FONDANT. But somehow I persevered and managed to cover the chocolate and red velvet cake without any tearing.

Mandrew designed Pompeii and make some really rad trees. He graduated from college with a degree in the classics, don’t ya know. As a final touch, I bought some dry ice for the volcano.

NOTE TO SELF* Never listen to the dry ice vendor when he says you can keep that stuff in the freezer overnight. He is lying and should be run out of town. You’ll end up making another trip a few hours before the party to replace what has mysteriously vanished.