Throwback Thursday: fondant critters

In March 2018 my eldest received a corn snake from her grandparents for her birthday. She requested snake themed cupcakes for her cake, and so we made little fondant corn snakes with air brushed patterns.

Photo description: fondant snakes on templates to make them consistent and for lining up the stencil for airbrushing the pattern

I remember the snake themed cupcakes, what I didn’t remember were the tiny fondant baby mice.

Photo description: baby mice made from fondant icing colored pink

Oh yes, we set up the cupcakes with the snakes and the mice.

Photo description: finished vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting, some with mice caught in the snakes’ coils, some without, and a few extra fondant snakes in between
Photo description: real living snakelet held in my eldest’s hand

Makeshift snake lock

My eldest has a 2-year-old corn snake that has learned to open her (maybe his) own cage! She bumps the latch to turn it and eventually gets it open. Sophie the cat found her under her cage table one morning, so we had to come up with a way to lock it down, but still get it open relatively easy. We used a shoelace.

Shoe lace run through the mesh on the latch of the snake’s cage

We ran the shoe lace so that we can open it without unlacing it. When it is closed, we tie it with a bow. So far the cats have not been able to get on top of the cage, so the bow should be secure for awhile. Clever snek.

Corn snake attempting another escape