The Dexter baking day!

Many people will know the joys of that wonderful show: Dexter. This series is based around one Dexter Morgan, who works for Miami metro police with his sister Debra, despite being a serial killer. (Don't worry he only kills bad guys.) 

 I haven't actually known about this show for too long, but as soon as I did I spent my TV time every evening watching it. As my chum Kiran also loves this show (and we always end up talking about it whenever we see each other) we decided to have a Dexter themed baking day :D 
 I will just say here that there are potential spoilers down below as one of the ideas displays some of the people that Dexter ends up whacking so unless you're up to season 7 I would recommend you go ahead and skip this post ;D 

First of all: Dexters blood slide traybake.

In all honesty, for this one, I like the idea more than the result. I think there would be a better way to perfect this, but it'd require more thinking....

Jamie said they looked like little Japan flags :P

For the 1st time I have EVER used rolled icing I think we did a decent enough job. We didn't totally smoosh it!

Next up we have: Gingerbread victims.

Now these I liked, we painted their faces using chopsticks and coloured fondant icing (we had no access to piped icing :P) and this turned out pretty well.

We put strawberry ice cream sauce on the spot where Dexter usually stabs his victims and then wrapped them in Cling film. We also put a little red slice on their faces where he takes the drop of blood for his slides.

And last but not least: Cupcake bodybags.

We just made cupcakes, dipped them in chocolate and sprinkles coconut over them :)

I would put up the recipe for the cake but it was absolutely ghastly. I just pulled a quickie recipe off of the internet and it tasted vile. Next time we experiment something like this I shall endeavor to find a decent recipe first!

And there we are :)

Just wish we didn't have to wait so long for season 8 to come out!

xxxxx