Tag: cake
R2-D2 Cake Plays The Leia Hologram As A Movie Projection On The Wall
Star Wars geeks are passionate. When they create something inspired by Star Wars, it's usually extraordinary. This includes everything from LEGO builds to life-size replicas to cakes. Yes, I said cakes, as in birthday cakes. We've featured a Yoda cake, a Death Star cake and even an Ewok cake before, ...
Cake Hotel: Where Almost Everything Inside Is Made From Sugary Cake
If you have a sweet tooth, I bet you'd like to spend the night at this cake hotel. Too bad it was only open for one night! Almost everything inside this hotel is made from either cake or some other kind of sweet deliciousness. It took 14 artists 900 hours to decorate the inside of the hotel with 1,3 ...
Cupcake Printer Turns Your Sloppy Cupcakes Into Delicious Artwork
So you're sitting there looking at cupcakes all day long. You dream of being able to create magnificent and perfect cupcakes like everyone else seems to be able to whip up in seemingly no time at all. Maybe you have even tried putting a few together without the extravagant results you had hoped for. ...
The Man Who Ate At Least One Twinkie Every Day For 64 Years
Richard and I both wrote articles about Twinkies today. His just published an hour ago, but I still couldn't resist writing my own little Twinkie tribute. When was the last time you ate a Twinkie? The last one I had was about two or three months ago when I splurged and bought a box. I had no idea th ...
Pretty Cake Clothes Hanging In An Edible Closet (Complete With iPad)
Wow, this would be a dream come true fantasy birthday cake for any little girl who loves her iPad and her Barbie dolls. What you see below is a cake closet filled with pretty cake clothes. All of those clothes, and all the accessories on the shelf and in the drawer of the closet, are all made out of ...
A Colorful Rubik’s Cube Birthday Cake For Geeks
Aww man, I can't believe I missed the 37th birthday of the Rubik's Cube on July 13th. That little colorful cube was such a huge part of my childhood. I remember the first time I solved it. In the moment that I realized I finished it, I was so confident I could have probably found the solution to wor ...
Potterheads: Huge Harry Potter Cake With Special Effects
Ya'll are going to think I'm really strange when I tell you this, but I've never seen a Harry Potter movie. The reason why is really quite simple. Since I'm on the Internet all day every day, and since every time one of those movies comes out there is a flood of posts about it, I feel like I've alre ...
Transformers: The 2,000 Pound Bumblebee Vanilla Cake
It's always so much fun to see artists get inspired by the release of new movies. Yesterday I wrote about the stop-motion animations director who recreated the entire Cars 2 movie trailer in Lego. That was the result of several months of hard work, all inspired by a movie.
Another artist, a famou ...
Gooey Sticky Popcorn Cake: The Ultimate Movie Snack
Even though this isn't a food blog, we still have fun writing about food designs. This is especially true when they look like works of art. One thing I have learned is that an artist can be just as creative in the kitchen as in the art studio, and there really is no limit to what can be created with ...
Foodies: Creative Hot Chocolate Cupcake Design
I don't know what it is about cupcakes, but we love them! I don't eat them very often, but I sure like looking at them. As cupcakes once again gain popularity on and off the Internet, people everywhere continue to be inspired by the sweet treats. Misty and I have written about cupcakes many times on ...
Star Wars Birthday Cakes: There’s No Other Way To Celebrate
My birthday is a while off, but that doesn't mean I am not checking out cakes already. Celebrating birthdays to me isn't the same as it used to be. Years ago, we got all our friends to come over, and we had a blast in whatever way kids did back then. We played Nintendo, played "putting the tail on t ...
Food Play: An Epic Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake
How do you impress your kids these days? I mean, not that I am much for spoiling just for the heck of it, but in a day and age when kids pretty much have everything they wish for, what can you do to make their one day of the year so much more special than it already is? Well, it turns out there is ...
Bleeding Heart Cake: Perfect Gift Idea For Your Valentine
With Valentine's Day coming up in a short yet distant while, you have probably started thinking about what in the world you could give your loved one to show him or her that you really do want to share your heart in every way possible. Presents and gifts are at the highest place on the to-get list ...
Now There Are Even Edible Angry Birds Cake Toppers
So I finally pushed myself over the edge and tried out the heavily successful Angry Birds game on my iPad. I had tried it out briefly before, but this time, I wanted to really get into the game, and I did. The graphics aren't that impressive, and the game play isn't unique after having played Crus ...
How To: Make Supersized S’Mores (No Campfire Needed!)
Cake decorating is an art form all in itself. I have been fortunate enough to watch some of the most epic cakes you've ever seen get decorated. It requires way too much patience and artistic skill for me; however, I have a lot of respect for people that create such masterpieces.
Since my mother ...