Coolest Snake Cake 23

by Kathy
(Maryland)

Rattler Snake Cake

My nephew loves snakes (and all things 'creepy and gross'!) so for his 5th birthday we searched for ideas and found this site for a snake cake. So many great ideas!

My brother and I used two bundt cakes (one chocolate; one vanilla), one creme horn (some folks call them creme twists) for the 'rattler' and two triangular shaped filled pastries for the 'head' (this allowed us to have a snake with an open mouth).

We simply used prepared frosting colored green for the body and fruit-by-the-foot for the inside of the mouth, tongue and body stripes (helped disguise the joints where cake sections joined.)

We did a couple things differently than we had seen in any of the cakes here: for 'fangs' we decided to use two banana-shaped Runts (TM) candies - they looked perfect! For eyes, we used two Baskin-Robbins Sugar-free Cookies'n'Cream hard candies which are bi-colored and look great as eyes. To define the ridges on the creme horn, we used a tube of gel frosting. Gummie worms were placed around the cake as garnish.

Though far from professional, the cake was a huge hit and, if I say so myself, Delicious!