I don’t often serve cake for just regular dinner parties, so I had a lot of fun preparing this for a small gathering of friends.

This is a three layer, seven inch red velvet (dark purple velvet, technically, because I can’t ever leave well enough alone).

I kind of love the versatility of the plain, round decorating tip. Since my friends and I are a bunch of off-beat geeks, I pulled out tentacles using a larger, round tip with purple striping to evoke Cthulhu.