Cake-tastic

There's a gal named Jen who once a week asks for pics of cakes that are fabulously made, rather than the "Cake Wreck"* pics she usually posts, of cakes gone wrong.

(This may look like a "cake wreck," but was intentionally made this way, along the theme of James Bond. Very, very well crafted)

Below are all real cakes, and are of the "fabulous" variety. Having grown up with a mom who made incredible cakes all my life, I can appreciate the beauty of a well-made cake.

And with the sliced bread of cake inventions we have now--fondant (which I discovered about a year ago), the cake-making options are endless. Fondant isn't yummy, but it is edible, and quite pliable, like clay. Just look at these real cakes for proof of the pudding...er...fondant:

Whimsical snow people. Happy sigh. (I like pretty things.)

This is my favorite, and 2nd is the pumpkin cake:

Can you even believe this is cake? I love the cobblestones and the mice peeking out all over.

Our family loves Nightmare Before Christmas.

Look at the details on that beautiful hill of a cake. So delicate and pretty, and based off of an even prettier, famous tapestry.

A purse? Really? For a cake? It makes sense, I guess; if someone's willing to pay $1500 for a purse, perhaps it's no big deal to pay $500 for a cake that looks like the purse...

What a cute little dragon, no? Maybe this was Teric as a baby.

All you muppet fans** out there (yes, including me), don't you think this cake deserves a blog post by itself? Amazing, huh. The title of the post would be "I brought the paper towels."

Oh, that cute penguin cake! (Gee, I like penguins!) Winking his eye and tipping his hat, all the while wearing those cute spats!

More dragon lore.


Bakerella even explains how this is a real cake, AND how to make it!


Next Post--Cakes that brides ordered, and what they actually got.

Viewer discretion advised--It may make you weep to see what some brides ended up with in the cake department, vs. what they pictured in the dream-up-your-fairytale-wedding-cake department!

*I can't vouch for all the material at Cake Wrecks, a site dedicated to cakes made by "professionals" (anyone who is paid to make/decorate a cake, such as employees at a grocer's bakery) that have gone horribly, and sometimes hilariously, wrong; occasionally I found a cake and/or comments about it that I thought was offensive. But it is where I gathered all these cake pictures, and if you want to find the sources of the cakes, you can browse through Jen's site and look them up. Her wit is usually charming and witty as can be.

**By muppet fans, and real muppet fan knows I am referring to the muppets before Jim Henson died. After that the creativity and originality of their skits diminished greatly, and is mostly dumb slapstick now.