I'm planning on sending a cake through the mail this week for my lil sis' 16th b-day. She's into goth stuff and mentioned a while back she wanted a black cake with skulls on it. I plan on covering the cake in chocolate fondant colored black but have no idea what flavor cake and filling to use in it. I don't think she has any prefferances (she loves any sweets no matter the flavor like me). I was wanting to do maybe a butter rum cake, but what filling and icing could I use that doesn't need to be refridgerated? TIA

Sound great to me!

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-49103-rum.html

Was thinking with the goth theme you would be doing a black-out or mud cake - it's just what popped into my head when I heard "goth".

the whole "goth" thing could be seen as a "shocker" to the whole society norm, so, with that in mind, do something totally un-characteristic with the flavors, it may be black (dark brown) and the expectation it would be chocolate but... Do something weird like watermelon and peppermint, or peanut butter and lemon, the flavors can completement or not complement in this case, it would all depend on whose going to eat it! This would be really fun to do! Mix and unmatch. Have fun for sure!