The bizarre cakes of Kerry Soraci, whose I Scream Cakes project is established in St. Louis, were on display Friday night at
Iron Age Tattoo in the Delmar Loop. Photographer Stew Smith was there and brought back these photos.
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| Just a hunka hunka frozen love: This Elvis cake is made from -- what else? -- peanut butter and banana. |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| Soraci's favorite cake, the Green Devil, is made from peanut butter and chocolate cake, with green- and red-dyed white-chocolate ganache. The hair is made up of chocolate modeling paste. |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| Kerry painstakingly focused on the details of her cakes. Here on the Green Devil, she has molded white-chocolate ganache for teeth and a forked tongue. |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| A peanut butter and chocolate sunflower cake. |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| A close-up of the leaves on the sunflower cake. On shaping the leaves, Kerry says, "The hard part is keeping the shape you want -- it has to be really cold, like zero degrees to negative-ten." |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| Triple chocolate black widow spider, a deadly combination. |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| A detail shot of the crying skull. A sweet, yet morbid touch to a frosty treat. |
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| Photo: Stew Smith |
| The septapus, formerly the octopus, lost an arm in construction. It is made up of peanut butter and chocolate ice cream and and peanut butter and chocolate cake. This was Kerry's most challenging cake. |
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