Steampunk Cakes

[filkertom]

If you don't follow cakewrecks (and, if you don't you really should), has a Sunday Sweets feature, wherein they highlight good cake work. Today's special is steampunk.

If you were going to do a theme baked good, what theme would you pursue, and what kinds of things might go into it? I can certainly imagine a zombie-ravaged wasteland cake, served with little cups of jello-brains. Or maybe a mad science cake, using some of those candies designed to look like body parts to simulate the face of the Monster.

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[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there was a cakewrecks feed. I love you even more, now, Tom!

*fangirls over steampunk butterfly cake*

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

I've done two themed edible events, both long, long ago. First was "alien invasion" for a kids party where I made UFO cakes, alien monster pastries chasing and eating cupcake people, cookie alien commanders directing the invasion from their gingerbread death vehicles. Rigged up the two cake trays with pressure triggers and old toy noisemakers so when you cut into the cake it would shoot you back with sound effects.

Second event was week long and based on a dare to see how erotic I could make food. Started off by making plaster casts of various body parts of my girlfriends then using them in various configurations. Like made a full body angel food cake reclining nude with peach frosting that had a dozen devils food cake arms with no frosting caressing it on both sides. I thought we'd have way too much leftovers of that but word spread quickly and we had a crowd before long. Next up I made a life-sized waist-up hollow chocolate bust of one girlfriend with little drink spouts for nipples that dispensed vanilla creme liquor on one side and spiced rum on the other. The rest of the week was made up of "Kinky Fun With Jello" using all of the molds I made earlier. We got very silly, and messy, with that stuff.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

hhmmmmm well I'd definitely go for a Skullcrusher Mountain theme, there's just so much you can do with it. :)

[wingus.livejournal.com]

I've recently had the idea of a zombie apocalypse wedding cake - a fairly standard cake, but the fun comes in the topper - bride and groom back-to-back with weapons of choice, shooting over the edge at zombies climbing up the various tiers of the cake. Gut splatters optional, depending on the wedding attendees.

Maybe a Space Invaders cookie tray would be cool, too - big sugar cookie versions of the shields, invaders, and your ship, with little cookie-bite bullets.

[ororo.livejournal.com]

Those are fantastic!

I'd like to see someone make Miskatonic University out of cake. Creepy old odd New England archtecture.

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

The last set of themed baked goods I did were hedgehog cupcakes for the Memorial Gaming Invitational I threw when Gypsy died. When I get home at the end of the month, I'll be diving into Hallowe'en baked goods, of course. So I'll need a new theme for the first week of November.

Hrm. I'm currently obsessed with "Glee," so maybe something based on that?

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

I would want something from Sunday Sweets :D
A couple months ago I spent a couple of days at a friend's house to help him out after hernia surgery, and I introduced him to cake wrecks. I think he went through the entire history of it in a long evening of alternating guffaws and admiration.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

I hope the laughing wasn't detrimental to the surgical healing; it would depend upon the location.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Just in time for OVFF, the Spousal Unit and I found Yummy Bakery in Dublin, OH (3 doors from the Trader Joe's, if I fail to come up with more navigation clues). It's independent, non-chain, and Persian, with gorgeously-decorated cakes, cookies, and a baklava recipe made with coconut and sold by the pound. I bought half a pound, and I'm trying not to eat it all in one go. They're here:
http://yummy-bakery.com/yummy_bakery

(Not to be confused with the Google-hit from a blog about a bad time in an eponymous cafe in Pennsylvania.)

[surakofb5.livejournal.com]

I was just telling people yesterday about the monolith party I had in 1999 to celebrate the discovery of the monolith on the moon. (Circumstances prevented me from hosting the obvious follow-up party in 2001.)

I found star-shaped sprinkles and mixed them into a chocolate cake, which I baked, trimmed to the appropriate 1:4:9 dimensions, and iced with black icing. I also made monolith cut-out cookies with the 1:4:9 dimensions and iced with black icing. Plus I made two 8" round cakes, and decorated one as a moonscape with a Hershey bar standing up in the middle for the monolith, and little Lego space men standing around it. The other round was decorated as Jupiter, using a picture from my planetary science text as a guide. (That one got sent to Perkins Observatory because we had too much food.) And we also had sandwiches cut into star shapes just for fun.

Now if I could only find and scan the pictures...