Help me with ideas for a cake!!!

I’m looking forward to it, Baker, it’s very kind of you! I hope you win the contest. Please post a picture if you can.

Oh, this is perfect timing…

Baker, how do you ship your cookies? I want to thank some firefighters for helping out a friend and was told that they love treats. I’m worried that if I send them some cookies, that they’ll be in crumbs by the time they arrive.

I know I’m late to the party, but how have we gotten this far in this thread with no mention of Miss Havisham’s wedding cake?

Oh, yeah. Never mind. :slight_smile:

Miss Havisham’s cake would be interesting. But Great Expectations, forced down my throat in high school, is the book that made me hate, hate hate Dickens.

Discworld, hah! Do a Ringworld cake and I’ll be really impressed.

Then again, I’m not a structural engineer and have no idea how to do that.

Gray’s Anatomy is a book. Can that count?

Or you could go with the novelization of Night of the Living Dead.

I think Kafka’s The Metamorphosis would be an interesting cake, especially after the bug had the apple imbedded in his back.

Nice way to present chocolate cake, too, with some red fondant for the apple. Tasty and gross at the same time. :slight_smile:

Sorry to bump again, I just wanted to let y’all know we got the cookies and they were yummy! I meant to post a picture, but that would have involved keeping the box away from the wolf pack (aka kids) while my daughter charged her camera, and it just didn’t happen. We tore open the box and NOM NOM NOM. :slight_smile:

My favorites were the cranberry oatmeal.

I’ll send you the recipe(s)! :smiley:

A cake shaped like Christine? One of my all-time favorite scared-the-hell-out-of-me things. I had to walked around my car from behind for weeks after I read it.

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The link is to a picture of my Flowers for Algernon cake. His whiskers were bits of spaghetti. Algy himself, as well as the flowers, the cake covering, and the tombstone, were made out of fondant. The brown maze and the trim are buttercream icing. The cake underneath was chocolate.

Cthulhu Rising.

You could do a Lovecraft cake, Cthulhu rising out of the ocean (of jello) with a small fondant boat being tossed upon the waves.

Or faceless nightgaunts crowding around the bed of an innocent sleeper…

Yay sis! Congrats on winning “most likely to be devoured”!

Yours deserved its place. I enjoyed the other offerings, too. I bet that was a really fun contest.

Cool cake! I wish I’d caught this thread the first time around, I would have suggested a little marzipan Moses parting a cake Red Sea for the book of Exodus. I’d eat that.

Tell me: do all the cakes at these competitions get eaten? I have a hard time imagining some of those works of art being destroyed and devoured. Who would want to be the first person to sink a knife into this?

In my case the folks in the breakroom devoured it. They’ll eat anything. I’m on a strict diet(Not helped by actually being a professional baker!) and didn’t want to take it home with me.

I am just beaming with delight! Nice job, Baker! Should have gotten a best-in-show, I thought.

What the heck was the stuff with the Edgar Allan Poe book? No, wait, I don’t want to know. I got a laugh out of the Seabiscuit and Lovely Bones entries, though.

It was a meatloaf covered in barbeque sauce. Not sure what the tubes at the top were, maybe pieces of pasta.