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News: Princess Zelda & Link baby shower cake
My mother-in-law threw me a baby shower yesterday, and many many people came. My sister came, and she also brought a cake her friend made. The above is a vanilla sponge cake with strawberry buttercream filling, and the decoration's made with fondant. She asked her friend to make a Zelda cake because it was our wedding cake topper. As you can see, it started going pretty fast.
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.
News: Synth Cakes Are Awesome
Cakehead Loves Evil compiles a great set of synthesizer cakes:
News: Starcraft Zerg Hive Cake!
Pretty impressive!
HowTo: Bake a Rainbow Cake
Inspired by previously posted Art's 1,000,047th Birthday Celebrates in the Form of Cake?
RECIPE: Sex and the City Cosmopolitan Cupcakes
In honor of Sex and the City II, how about a batch of cosmo cupcakes.
News: Dollhouse Baker Obsessively Crafts Tiniest Cakes In The World
German born, Parisian resident 24-year-old Stéphanie Kilgast lovingly crafts her miniatures with dedicated attention to detail. Love her work? You're in luck, she's got an Etsy shop. Inspired to make your own? Lucky again. Stéphanie is kind enough to instruct. Start small: HowTo make teeny, tiny lemons.
News: 50 Coolest Mario Cakes Ever
Castles Cakes Always Wow a Crowd Don't Judge: This Birthday Boy is Turning 30
HowTo: Bake a Car-Cake
Skoda has created an amazing car constructed with CAKE! for their latest advertisement. Via Car Pages,
RECIPE: Exploding Volcano Cake
Next on the baking agenda? An exploding Volcano Cake, in honor of the recent Eyjafjallajökull eruption.
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).
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: Star Wars R2D2 Dagobah Swamp Cake.
This awesome Star Wars cake was made by Mannuli on Flickr
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: CAKES! CAKES! CAKES! Is Up For Grabs- Admin Wanted
CAKES! CAKES! CAKES! needs a new top admin to take over. Build upon the existing site and community: compile awesome recipes, tutorials and images to share with all fellow cake lovers. If you have something to share and are interested in connecting with other cake decorators, CAKES! CAKES! CAKES! is currently up for grabs to use as a launching platform.
News: genius idea - hot chocolate cupcake
Via This Isn't Happiness.
HowTo: Make a Fruit Loop Tentacled Octopus Cake
Check out Apartment Therapy's guide to making this amazing supersized octopus cake.
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: $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.
RECIPE: Dragonfruit Cake
Hmm, interesting. Gotta try it...
News: Art's 1,000,047th Birthday Celebrates in the Form of Cake
**UPDATE: Toasty Kitten locates recipe! Via The Post Family,
RECIPE: Giant Red Velvet Cup Cake
The Recipe is found here.
News: Edible Nipples
Art or candy? Would you eat the chocolate nipples? Via Gastronomista:
News: Giant Balloon Birthday Cake Delivery
With all the great cakes on the site, I thought I'd share one from my collection. Straight from the Make Balloon Animals World, I wanted to share this giant balloon birthday cake. This gentleman got his wish for his birthday... A giant cake AND the girl of his dreams.
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: Octopus Cake
Cake created by Karen Portaleo/ Highland Bakery
News: Communists Like Cake, Too
English Russia's top ten most popular and favorite cakes of latter day Soviet Russia (Potato Cake?!?):
News: Keep Watch Cake
By Mishka.
News: Ewok Cake
Via AntVar's deviantART:
RECIPE: FOURTEEN Layer Cake!!
I'm dying to try this cake... supposedly a Southern tradition.
News: Pac Man Cake
Super cute Pac-Man Cake by Nichole Horvath.
News: Cake that looks like Ham
via Gawker
News: Cake Wrecks... When Cakes Go Horribly Wrong
It pains me to post pictures of ugly cakes, but cake-lovers everywhere need to be in the know. Cake Wrecks takes on the responsibility of showing when pro-cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong...