{"id":4717,"date":"2011-10-25T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:00:17","slug":"goblin-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/25\/goblin-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Goblin&#8217; Up Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pastry-head1.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/02\/14\/valentines-day-mrs-crankipants\/pastry-head-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pastry-head1.gif?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Pastry-head\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pastry-head1.gif?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4629\" title=\"Pastry-head\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pastry-head1.gif?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pastry-head1.gif?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pastry-head1.gif?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It certainly wouldn&#8217;t be Halloween without a cake to celebrate the occasion!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkincake.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4725\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/25\/goblin-cake\/pumpkincake\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkincake.jpg?fit=640%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,521\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A430&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1317731667&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;9.771&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pumpkincake\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkincake.jpg?fit=640%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4725\" title=\"pumpkincake\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkincake.jpg?resize=640%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkincake.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkincake.jpg?resize=300%2C244&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> This spider topped beauty is giving me a case of Halloween-orexia! It has all of the necessary components of horror &#8211; a jack-o-lantern face, a dismembered arachnid, and lots of fang rotting, wax lip licking sweet orange icing. Just one question &#8211; what exactly is this striped purple thing?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cakecloseup.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4726\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/25\/goblin-cake\/cakecloseup\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cakecloseup.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,428\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.8&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A430&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1317731694&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21.6&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cakecloseup\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cakecloseup.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4726\" title=\"cakecloseup\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cakecloseup.jpg?resize=640%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cakecloseup.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cakecloseup.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I know that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but come on!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly wouldn&#8217;t be Halloween without a cake to celebrate the occasion! This spider topped beauty is giving me a case of Halloween-orexia! It has all of the necessary components of horror &#8211; a jack-o-lantern face, a dismembered arachnid, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/25\/goblin-cake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82,291],"tags":[929,651,933,652,659,932,655,930,3668,240,76,43,931,658,3669,882,485,3670,934],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-step-away-from-the-pastry-bag","tag-amateur","tag-bakery","tag-black","tag-cake","tag-diabetes","tag-festive","tag-frosting","tag-gruesome","tag-halloween","tag-holiday-2","tag-horror","tag-humor","tag-jack-o-lantern","tag-orange","tag-philadelphia","tag-pumpkin","tag-spiders","tag-step-away-from-the-pastry-bag","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1e5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36680,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/23\/south-philly-jack-o-lantern\/","url_meta":{"origin":4717,"position":0},"title":"South Philly Jack O&#8217; Lantern","author":"Joe","date":"October 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I think the squirrels added to the carving of this menacing Jack O' Lantern which I spotted on a stoop of a South Philadelphia rowhouse. 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