Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Open Wound Cake

Last night’s episode of the Halloween Baking Competition was cringeworthy. The bakers were challenged with making Open Wound Cakes and some of the creations were so realistic that I was cringing, my body seizing up into a ball.

Even the host, John Henson, was so creeped out at one cake that he lost it.


Another cake that had John cringing, at a loss for words, was a toenail cake.

For inspiration, the baker called upon a memory from when her toe got caught on the laundry basket and the toenail was torn off (Just the thought of it has me cringing as I type this description out).


The open wound looked pretty gnarly, but there was one problem with this cake, a problem I critiqued even before the judges pointed it out. That being though she did a great job with the bloody toenail area, she did not shape the body of the cake to resemble a toe.

At any rate, last night’s baking episode was creepier than any horror movie I could have watched.

I’m playing hooky from the Pain Cave tomorrow.

I don’t like to miss my workouts, try to arrange scheduling around workouts, but Twin 1 has arranged an all-day spa thing for her twin and I ─ facials, rose water baths, massages, the whole nine yards, and tomorrow was the only day the spa could take all three of us together at the same time.

We three are all busy people, with different lives going in different directions, so I've been with Twin 1 on some occasions, and with Twin 2 at other times, but all three of us together at the same time is a rare occurrence.

In fact, the last time I recall was in 2018, when the girls did the Great Donut 5K with me.

As it is, Twin 2 had to get a day off from work to make tomorrow's spa day happen, so my playing hooky from the Pain Cave is a small concession for the opportunity to spend time with my 54 years young babies.

Mildred, over at Mildred Ratched Memoirs, is running a 30 Songs in 30 Days Challenge.

Day 1's challenge is to post a song you like with a color in the title.

Sounds like fun, so I’m in.

The song that immediately came to mind is an old song that was my first and last introduction to country/western singer Blake Shelton.

I say last because I don't much care for Blake's singing voice, but there’s something about this one song that's made Ol Red a favorite of mine.


13 comments:

  1. That spa day with the twins sounds so great. As for Blake Shelton, don’t hate me, but it’s rare for me to like a country song and this one sho dint do it for me.

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    1. LOL. You're not alone. Not many agree with my taste in music.

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  2. ooh those cakes are grim. I love the Ol Red song.

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  3. Man, Halloween Baking Contest is just getting too horrific to watch -- yuck! Glad you're having a Spa Day with the twins tomorrow -- enjoy! My pick for a song with a colour in it would be either "Blue Bayou" sung by Linda Ronstadt or "La Vie en Rose" sung by Edith Piaf.

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    1. La Vie en Rose is mesmerizing. I remember it well.

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  4. OMG!!!!! YUCK!!!! I just had Tundra Bunny on my blog talking about the same cake I believe. It reminded her of the creepy queens I posted about. I relied- " Can I get you a slice of our Open Wound Cake tonight?" LMAO!!!!

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    1. Tundra is referencing the drag queen baker's cake. His open wound cake depicted the carnage on an ear after the earring was torn from it. He won the first round ... setting a cake on fire in a very clever way. He made a witch on a stick for a topper, set up some sort of pastry logs around her and when he flambéed the cake, it was like "Burn the witch". His torn ear cake wasn't gory enough, but he did spill the beans on a drag queen fight where earrings would be torn from ears saying that drag queens quickly bite their stiletto nails off when they get ready to fight so they can make a fist.

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    2. So Tundra Bunny is a guy? Usually it's the girls that get mad at me.

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  5. I'm loving the Halloween Competitions on The Food Network.

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    1. Me too. And then there are the Christmas competitions in the not too distant future.

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