Meatloaf Cake

My sister had to make a meatloaf decorated like a cake for work, so I volunteered to do the decorating. It gave me an excuse to get my flower nail out, which I haven’t used in years because I’m not usually a buttercream rose kind of cake decorator. The icing is mashed potatoes colored with beet juice, which piped better than I expected, though not as well as icing. Once I got down to the #2 tip, the texture really became a challenge.

The really unsettling thing was that, while it looked very much like a cake, it smelled not at all like a cake.