I have to make a Fear Factor cake. I have the basic design down with the bugs, worms, etc. but the mom said the grosser the better. She wants some kind of gross filling. I'm not sure of the cake flavor yet but she definitely wants chocolate frosting...so the cake will probably be chocolate, yellow or chocolate chip.
Any ideas on how to make a gross, slimey filling that would still taste good. Or something I can add to the filling?
How about lime or lemon curd...you could tint it a "grosser" green colour by adding food colour...it is slippy and shiney...perhaps put gummie worms in the filling...and gummy bugs if you can find them... 
oops..I see she wants choc icing...the citrus wouldn't go well...how about dripping ganache with worms and cookie chunks in it...
HTH a little...
Since it's kids we're talking about, I'd make a pastry cream filling ( make it a little loose and carve a nook in the cake so it doesn't slide etc) and die it with americolor electric green . If you want it to look more slimy -barf like, mix in some M& Ms that you bash up.
Then when the birthday boy cuts the cake, it will ooze barfy slie.
when I say carve a nook, I mean this:
You can then pour in the filling and set the next layer ( uncarved) flat on top.
when I say carve a nook, I mean this:
You can then pour in the filling and set the next layer ( uncarved) flat on top.
just a thought, if you carve it that deep would the top layer, fall through mashing the bottom layer, im trying to do a sheet cake for halloween with the same effect, i thought about making my BC icing like a glaze and tinting it Green, and then when you slice into it hopfully it will ooze, what do you think??
If you use buttercream ( not powdered sugar frosting) you can put a thin layer in your nook, and it will prevent the filling soaking in.
I just made a slime time cake for my son this past weekend and I used equal parts vanilla pudding and coolwhip blended together then tinted it green. You could probably add milk to get a thinner consistency if needed.
Also you might want to check Toys-R-Us, ours sells Harry Potter Candy and for $1.50 they have a pack of 2 life-like large (Palmeto size) Cockroach candies; they have a hard candy shell and a gummy center. I used them for a Survivor Party as part of our food challenge and they worked great!
I have made at least 3 oozing, bleeding, etc. cakes and what works best for me every time is a mixture of cool whip and pudding, colored whatever you needed. Make sure you use a good dam, because as soon as it is cut it oozes all over....
Also I have never had a problem with the cool whip leaking into the cake, but I keep all of my cakes in the fridge until delivery, so maybe that makes a difference?
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