Bleeding Heart

Entry number two for me. Again with the slightly grotesque theme that I love so much. The heart cake is carved from red velvet cake and then topped with red fondant. The "valves" are made from gumpaste that was formed around some cake support tubes. The veins were also made from fondant and glued on with water. The whole cake was painted with corn syrup that was colored with a bit of red and black food coloring. I put black fondant inside the valves to look like coagulated blood. I had a lot of fun making this one!