VeganMoFo IV: Never Trust a Pig Farm and a Smile

Happy World Vegan Day!!!!  Another VeganMoFo has begun!  I am super duper excited this time around because I will finally be doing video!  Now, everybody can see my stupid face and hear my voice.  Awesome!

As the season of vegan blogging begins, I'm already feeling frazzled.  I'm currently typing on three hours of sleep.  Anybody who tells you that building a gingerbread house is fun...they're lying.  Or maybe they just employed child labor.  Seeing as how my dogs don't have opposable thumbs, I spent way too many hours building a gingerbread barn by myself.  The fun part is definitely decorating.  The not-so-fun part is all the royal icing and waiting for things to dry.

This, my friends, is my last year doing gingerbread of any kind.  It's just too much work.  But this is definitely my favorite one yet.  Why?  Molding marzipan detached limbs is just as fun as it sounds.  So I present to you...Haunted Gingerbread 2010: Serial Killer Pig Farm.

front of barn, back of barn

side of house, marzipan pig, jack-o-lantern dots, front door

To make the house,  I used the PPK gingerbread recipe.  I got the template from Ultimate Gingerbread.  The house is sitting on a chocolate cake (from Papa Tofu) and I used the same frosting as last year.  For decoration I used black Twizzlers, Dots, Sweet Tarts, pretzels, colored coconut, and marzipan.  I think my favorite part was shaping the little piggies of death!  I have never worked with marzipan before but it's really so much fun.  Now, for close ups of the carnage.  I even carved little fingers and toes into the dismembered body parts.  Isn't it fun to take a cute concept and make it completely morbid?!  Haha.

tons of gore

don't trust these pigs at all

I can has HANDburger?

In my best Cryptkeeper voice: Well, that's all for now, kiddies!  See you tomorrow, boys and ghouls.  Bahahahahahahahaha.