Dia de los Muertos or The day of the dead in English, is a festival / holiday celebrated in November in Mexico to honour those that have passed. It is a vibrant and colourful affair and perhaps the most striking thing from the festival is the beautifully decorated skulls, also known as sugar skulls.
My dad (hello! It's Lizzie) loves skulls and. Even as I type that it sounds strange! Not like he has a 'weird' thing for them, he just likes them. I think it's the biker in him. So, when his birthday came round this year I liked the idea of making him a cake skull to celebrate.
I went through literally hundreds of pictures of skulls on the Internet and my original plan was to emulate a vintage tattoo (my dad, also into tattoos) I quickly changed my mind when I started looking at pictures of sugar skulls, so that's what I went with.
I chose to stick with three main colours rather than the really bright colours associated with sugar skulls. Gold, black and red accents on a white background., this was the end result!
The cake received lots of compliments and most importantly my Dad loved it.
Scale is hard to grasp from the picture but a quarter comfortably fed 10 of us at the restaurant!!
