# Mmmmm, snakes & cakes. Yummy!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmm-snakes-cakes-yummy/631753>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 17, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmm-snakes-cakes-yummy/631753 "2012-08-17T05:20:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmm-snakes-cakes-yummy/631753/1 "2012-08-17T05:20:18Z")

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This is all over the internet so maybe most people have already seen this incredible creation, but just in case.

[The Snake Cake.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186448/Fangs-ssssponge-cake-mum-Six-year-old-birthday-remember-mother-bakes-snake-shaped-treat.html)

I’m very fascinated by temporary art such as sand sculptures, ice sculptures, crop circles, sidewalk art, butter art and so on, because I don’t understand the mental process behind creating an amazing and beautiful work of art that you know will be gone in a few hours, days, or weeks, though I’m very glad people do it anyway (and thank heavens for photographs). I’ve never put cakes into that category. Believe me, I will now.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmm-snakes-cakes-yummy/631753/2 "2012-08-17T14:52:55Z")

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For some reason, this reminds me of a contest I read about decades ago, for recipes including earthworms. The winner was called “Surprise Cake”.

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmm-snakes-cakes-yummy/631753/3 "2012-08-17T15:07:52Z")

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You might browse around here: [http://www.cakewrecks.com/display/Search?moduleId=10924759&searchQuery=sunday+sweets](http://www.cakewrecks.com/display/Search?moduleId=10924759&searchQuery=sunday+sweets)

Cakewrecks normally covers abominable wastes of icing, but the Sunday Sweets feature some really impressive stuff. Consider, for example, the [one with the life-size stormtrooper cake](http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/7/15/sunday-sweets-villain-edition.html) (about halfway down, below the Alien cakebuster and the Stargate, but above Barad-dûr).