CAKES! CAKES! CAKES! Features


News: Über-Cute LEGO Cake
Simple construction, charming results. If I were salts & sweets' 6-year-old LEGO lovin' cousin, I'd be pretty happy, too.

Soft as Cotton, Light as Air: Japanese Cheesecake
I had the immense pleasure of eating Japanese cheesecake in Little Tokyo recently. It is soft, moist... essentially perfect. Here's a round-up of recipes I'd like to try, if anybody has any favorites, please add to the list!


News: Welcome To CAKES! CAKES! CAKES!
This WonderHowTo World is everything and anything about cakes! It is completely open to all cake enthusiasts. Post links to your favorite recipes, images of totally awesome cakes, or videos of anything amazing-cake-related. If you've got a question, start a thread in the forum.

How To: How About a Bite of Naked Mole Rat?
Another shiver-inducing winner via Cake Wrecks.

RECIPE: This Memorial Day Cake Means Business
Got a couple hours to spare before your Memorial Day festivities begin? This super rich Patriotic Trifle looks relatively simple to make.

News: Yellow Submarine Birthday Cake
Gotta love it. More info.


News: Coke Can or Cake?
Wow this fooled me. I couldn't tell at first this was cake, red velvet my favorite.

News: OMG Biz Markie's Turntable Birthday Cake Actually Spins
Wowsa, Happy Birthday Biz! MDV Expressions Cake Design made an edible turntable cake for the rapper and it actually spins! (Biz is best known for his single "Just a Friend" - if you need a reminder, second video in the gallery below).

News: Yum, Sushi Cake
Make your own sushi cake.


News: Mmmmm... Deliciously Deep Red Velvet Cake
I love red velvet cake. The deep, vibrant color. The faint taste of cocoa. The legendary myth behind the recipe.

HowTo: Bake a Rainbow Cake
Inspired by previously posted Art's 1,000,047th Birthday Celebrates in the Form of Cake?


News: Intense Ice Cream Cake
Freddo's ice cream cake, via The Food Pornographer.

RECIPE: Sex and the City Cosmopolitan Cupcakes
In honor of Sex and the City II, how about a batch of cosmo cupcakes.


News: Synth Cakes Are Awesome
Cakehead Loves Evil compiles a great set of synthesizer cakes:

HowTo: Bake a Car-Cake
Skoda has created an amazing car constructed with CAKE! for their latest advertisement. Via Car Pages,

News: Happy Birthday Cake Postcards
Etsy seller TangBaby has faux happy birthday cake postcards for sale. Each postcard is made to order and has that deliciously satisfying plastic toy food texture (and smell, I'm hoping).


News: 50 Coolest Mario Cakes Ever
Castles Cakes Always Wow a Crowd Don't Judge: This Birthday Boy is Turning 30

RECIPE: Exploding Volcano Cake
Next on the baking agenda? An exploding Volcano Cake, in honor of the recent Eyjafjallajökull eruption.

HowTo: Lovely Candied Rose Petal Cake Toppers
Une Deux Senses posts a tutorial on making candied rose petals. Very pretty on top of cupcakes or CAKE!

News: genius idea - hot chocolate cupcake
Via This Isn't Happiness.

RECIPE: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
Oh boy, these can't be good for you. But, man, I am a sucker for cookie dough. Via recipe creator, Annie Eats:

News: Nike Sneaker Sweet Enough to Eat
Erica Dorn's Marathon Cake for the NIKE78 Project.

News: Star Wars R2D2 Dagobah Swamp Cake.
This awesome Star Wars cake was made by Mannuli on Flickr

News: Down the Rabbit Hole! Alice in Wonderland Sweets
With the recent release of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, it's time to celebrate - in the form of cake, of course! Bakelab offers a series of Alice inspired sweets. Buy them online, OR if you're in the L.A. area, stop by ROYAL/T in Culver City.

News: Art's 1,000,047th Birthday Celebrates in the Form of Cake
**UPDATE: Toasty Kitten locates recipe! Via The Post Family,

RECIPE: Dragonfruit Cake
Hmm, interesting. Gotta try it...

News: $150,000 Cupcake With Diamond Sprinkles
Gotta be the silliest PR stunt I've heard of in a long time... but, still...DIAMOND(!) sprinkles. ROX (Scottish diamond and jewelry chain) have paired with Cupcake Glasgow to create the world's most expensive cupcake, sprinkled with 100,000 British pounds worth of sparkling diamonds.


News: Edible Nipples
Art or candy? Would you eat the chocolate nipples? Via Gastronomista:

News: Keep Watch Cake
By Mishka.


HowTo: Make a Fruit Loop Tentacled Octopus Cake
Check out Apartment Therapy's guide to making this amazing supersized octopus cake.

News: Alexander McQueen Tribute Cupcake
Martha Stewart Living Radio recently held a cupcake contest, and unfortunately the winner was NOT these Alexander McQueen cupcakes, by Julia Cunningham, DJ on SiriusXM U.

News: Communists Like Cake, Too
English Russia's top ten most popular and favorite cakes of latter day Soviet Russia (Potato Cake?!?):