How it started.

How it’s going.

I just can’t. My baby is thirteen years old.

She wanted a Taylor Swift birthday including the cake from her Blank Space video. I almost pulled it off, almost.

The cake.

In the video T Swift stabs her white heart cake and blood spatters out of it. I watched the video countless times and scoured the internet for an actual recipe that I thought would mimic the video. A lot of recipes called for a raspberry jam filling, some just suggested decorating the cake with the knife stabbed in it and blood pooling around. But the birthday girl wanted to actually stab the cake for the bloody result, so I set work.

I made a white cake from the box and layered it and crumb coated with cream cheese frosting.

Next I made some fake blood with corn syrup and red and a dash of blue food coloring. Then I poured it into a water balloon. Sounds easy, it wasn’t.

I cut a hole into the cake, big enough to fit the water balloon. This took trial and error and a little panic.

I pushed it down and covered the hole with some of the cake that I cut out and then covered it with frosting.

I breathed a sigh of relief, I had done the hard part and it didn’t look terrible.

I threw on another coat layer coat of frosting, I don’t know what the proper term is but I added more frosting and then got to piping.

I decided to add some friendship bracelet decor.

What I did next was my big mistake. I put it in the fridge and moved on with my life not thinking of the corn syrup that would thicken.

The build up was too much to handle.

You can see in the video how the corn sryup was too thick to splatter out like we were hoping.

Ugh, so close.