Zombie Jesus Day

To celebrate the day Jesus came back from the dead, as zombies do, I had a Zombie Jesus Day barbeque on Sunday. I roasted a cuban style pork shoulder and cooked a ton of food. Unfortunately my landlord hasn’t had our lawn taken care of in months, so the grass was way to long for the planned bocce ball. Sad.

I love themed pastries so I made some stigmata cookies. I used a hand shaped cookie cutter on some lofthouse dough and then cut a hole in the center before baking. I played around with the size if the hole in a test batch to find the right size. Topped them with a prepackaged rolled fondant and then squeezed in some buttercream icing colored with red candy coloring.

I baked my first layered cake. It actually made me cry. I made a basic lemon cake with a filling made of lemon pudding and raspberry preserves. The cake cracked terribly twice. After the second one cracked I stuck the pieces back together as best I could and then just iced over it. It wasn’t the prettiest thing I’ve ever made but I thought it was still quite delicious. I racked my brain for days trying to come up with a cleaver idea for cup cakes and as the tears fell on my cake it finally came to me…crown of thorns. Oh, how I wish I would have thought of it just three hours earlier. So I edged the cake with a squeeze icing like a crown of thorns…next time cupcakes. It would have been better.
 

You should checkout Boots In The Oven for their awesome (and quite flattering) post on my Easter events, complete with way better pictures. They keep my favorite food and travel blog,.

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