The Spaghetti Cake..

Yes...I know. Post #2 is yet another cake but I'd been dying to try this one out ever since I first saw a picture in my stumblings across the web. I give you: Spaghetti and Meatballs...Cake Style!

I started by baking a 9 inch round cake in two layers. Chocolate, of course!

Just fill and stack. I put the cake on a big, rounded dinner plate and kind of carved a little divot into the top so the meatballs could nestle in a little.

Next, I applied a thin layer of frosting. No need to worry about it being "crumb free" since you'll be covering it with a bunch of piped noodles.


Using a pastry bag and #5 tip -- it's a round, writing tip -- I piped tons and tons of "noodles" across the cake. I built up the edges and sides more than the middle.



I made my meatballs out of fondant. I had some leftover from a previous cake so I turned it brown using Wilton coloring -- a lot of brown and a little black. After they were a satisfactory color I rolled them into little lumpy balls. Then arrange them on top of the cake. (Sorry the 1st image is so bright!)


The original directions said to use truffles for the meatballs. I didn't have any chocolate so I just used fondant.

Now for the sauce... I combined some strawberry jelly with a bit of blackberry jelly and heated it up in the microwave for about a minute so it would pour/spread easily. I then spooned it on top of and between the meatballs. You mostly just want to cover the middle of the cake. so that the finished product looks like this...



I took it to a family dinner on Labor Day... My relative got a kick out of it and I had a blast making it!