Unless it’s properly prepared, I find that Hutt is tough with a gamey taste. Generally it’s not the most appetizing option on the menu. But deviantART member KatesKakes’s version promises to be sweet and moist.

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Truly Custom Cakery based its cake on the Batmobile from the 1989 movie. Would the Tumbler Batmobile taste better? Or the 60s-era Batmobile? This calls for a comprehensive study.

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There are plenty of great video game cakes out there, but this one “takes the cake” when it comes to epicness. Just look at how devilishly detailed this World of Warcraft Deathwing looks.

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Once a week, Cake Wrecks takes a break from humorously awful cakes to post a roundup of great cakes. The latest collection is about painted cakes.

Cake-painting is just like regular ol’ painting, except the artist must work extra quickly when using food-grade paints, and must also be ok with the fact that his or her masterpiece will surely be sliced up and devoured by the end of the night.

This gorgeous African wildlife-themed cake is from Rising Flours. See a bunch more artistically painted cakes, including cake reproductions of famous works, at Cake Wrecks. Link

It is a called a cherpumple, and it represents all that remains good and right in this fallen world. Pastry chef David Lowery made this 21 lb. 10 oz. concoction for guests at the Grand Geneva Resort in Wisconsin. I feel a rekindling of hope for the human race because we can still do great things like this.

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Don’t worry, it’s not actually embroidered -that wouldn’t be very delicious after all. Instead, it just looks embroidered thanks to a careful use of sprinkles. The creator even used a real embroidery design as her guide.

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Jen Yates, of the blog Cake Wrecks, published the book Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong in 2009. The response was so great, she and her husband John went to work on a new book. That book, Wreck the Halls is available now. In it, you’ll find hundred of holiday cakes, 232 pages of them, that are doubly sweet: you get to laugh at them, and someone got to eat them. Here’s a sampling for you.

The book begins with just a couple of Halloween cakes, and quickly moves on to Thanksgiving. There’s an entire section of turkey cakes, both the feathered kind and the cooked kind, all looking like something besides turkeys. And some are mashed up with other Thanksgiving traditions.

But I was particularly drawn to this cornucopia.

Maybe because it reminded me of this guy:

In the midst of all this bounty, someone had to ruin the mood. In a high-calorie manner.

The largest number of Cake Wrecks are about Christmas, but there are plenty of other holidays represented, like Super Bowel Sunday.

Better watch what snacks you serve for the Super Bowel. You may have to Go Go Go!

And there’s Hanukah, although this baker wasn’t sure whether to use the nine lights of Hanukah or the seven candles of the non-Hanukah menorah, so he/she compromised and used eight. Then forgot how long a word “Hanukah” is. The book also features a lots of Hanukah cakes with the symbolic five-pointed stars.

Some non-holiday occasions are included, such as this festive going-away party cake.

And this science-fiction themed birthday cake. This is an example of a baker “making do,” although the recipient may have called it “making doo-doo.” Speaking of that, have you ever noticed how cakes that are supposed to have turkeys or reindeer as decorations made of icing tend to end up looking like poo? I didn’t realize that, until so many of them were collected together in the book Wreck the Halls.

Even if there weren’t winter holidays, we would celebrate snowfall. Just be sure to follow the advice of the sage Frank Zappa, and don’t you eat that yellow snow!

But of course, the real fun comes when a baker tries to make a cake look like Santa Claus. It may end up looking more like a Halloween zombie.

Or the ghost of Christmas …something.

I believe this one is supposed to be the Grinch from the Dr. Seuss story.

What is this? I don’t know!

These are just a very few samples from the huge collection of cake in the book Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets “Festive”. Oh, there’s lots more. I had no idea there were that many ways to misspell “holidays,” much less “Christmas,” and even “merry.” Wreck the Halls is available now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble,  and at a book store near you.

It’s understandable why the Wonder Twins are absent. But no Marvin and Wendy? They were, like, the backbone of the show. Still, Ray, a Geeks Are Sexy reader, got a pretty good birthday cake.

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Anthony Herrera, who recently photoshopped Ewoks into the background of his children’s vacation photos, made this cake to reflect the interests of his five-year old daughter. Best of all: he added little shy Ewoks into the designs on the sides of the cake. You can view more pictures at the link.

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I don’t know about you guys, but I’d love to have a batch of these wampa cupcakes. There are also cool wookie ones if you prefer. They look pretty easy to make, so even though there are no instructions, I think you could make your own just using the pics as a guide.

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In this case, chocolate isn’t just the name of the color, but the name of the frosting flavor. That’s right, it’s a delicious chocolate-covered couch made by Leandro Erlich.

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Heidi Kenney made a pair of plushes in the above design, and the blogger behind Clockwork Lemon decided that it would be a good cake design, too. The cake has a buttercream crumbcoat with marshmallow fondant on top. Yummy! Link -via Super Punch

Sure, you could decorate the exterior of a cubical cake so that it looks like a Rubik’s Cube from the outside, but Vicky McDonald went beyond that goal for her cake in honor of Erno Rubik’s birthday. As you slice her cake, it continues to look like a Rubik’s Cube, with varying interior colors. She provides instructions on how to make one at the link.

After posting this marvelous creation, she received an email from Rubik himself:

Thanks for the nice birthday surprise which sweetens the bitterness of passing time.

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Previously: Rubik’s Cube Cake

Windell Oskay made this 8-pound cake with a 3D printer called a CandyFab 4000:

The shape is a 3/4 twist mobius strip with a square cross section and windows cut at regular intervals in all of the sides the side. Even though it’s hollow, it still weighs seven pounds and fourteen ounces– that’s a lot of sugar. We’re bringing this monster to Maker Faire this weekend, so you can see it for yourself, too.

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Somehow I feel like this cake would just have to taste like Pop Tarts. Strangely, I still want to try it even though I can’t stand the dried out preserved pastries.

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No! Don’t give George Lucas any ideas!

Actually, though, this would be an improvement over the prequels. So, yeah: go with a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover.

You can view other wonderful Vader birthday cakes at the link. Link -via Geekosystem

During graduation season, we see and hear the word “congratulations” a lot. There are also a lot of cakes made for graduation parties -but there are also a lot of cake decorators who cannot spell the word. Some shorten it to “congrats” and STILL misspell it! Cake Wrecks has a glorious roundup of recent congratulation cakes you are sure to get a kick out of. Link

We often post about inventive cakes and cupcakes, especially those made with other delicious foods inside, such as Oreos and Cadbury Creme Eggs. Now it’s no longer necessary to scrounge around for such confections. Thanks to the specializing tendency of the Internet, there’s a blog devoted entirely to baking foods inside cakes and cupcakes. Pictured above is on example from Bake It in a Cake — a banana cupcake with a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inside and topped with chocolate buttercream and chocolate chips.

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Cake artist Lily Vanilli makes cakes that look like human hearts. Musician Tim Wheeler featured one in one of his music videos, which you can watch at the link. In the video, he devours the cake, and it’s surprisingly realistic on the inside, too. At least, what I would imagine a person eating a human heart would look like. Because I’ve never actually seen that happen. So that’s more of a speculative assumption on my part.

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Inspired by a t-shirt design, Flickr user Kohl? made a cake that looks like a column of rock layers. There appears to be a deposit of chocolate within easy drilling range.

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Would you like to eat a cake that looks like a severed human head? Moreover, one that slowly decomposes as the frozen icing melts to reveal a skull inside? Well, then, good news! Barbara Jo of Do It Myself! knows how to make one. She provides step-by-step instructions at the link.

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The design of this Charmander cake is simple, but effective. When lit and seen from above, it looks like the Pokémon is actually breathing fire.

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CakeWrecks is celebrating the release of the new Harry Potter movie with two posts: one is a collection of terrible Harry Potter cakes, the other a celebration of awesome Harry Potter cakes. If you’ve never seen a Harry Potter cake at all, you’re in for a treat! Link to the wrecks. Link to the best.

This isn’t a cake in the traditional sense of the term because it’s cooked with ground turkey breast, yams, and mashed potatoes. But Amy Wisniewski’s concoction is shaped like a cake, so you might as well serve it for dessert. You can find the recipe at the link.

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Food artist Barbarann Garrard made a birthday cake inspired by the Kill Bill movies:

the bottom represents “the bride”.. the scene in which Beatrice is gunned down in the opening scene.. there is white bridal lace with blood and realistic chocolate bullets…the next teir is a Japanese pagoda.. this represents the scene toward the end in which Beatrice fights the “crazy 88′s” and O-Ren Ishii..it has the traditional rooftiles and curves and bamboo of a pagoda.. all edible …. the top is yellow with a black stripe to represent the suit Beatrice wears when she is fighting O-Ren Ishii contains an edible peice of notebook paper made of fondant with Beatirice’s “death List five” , and katana..
( which was not edible.. i thought it would make a nice keepsake) and a mask that represents the “crazy 88 “.. with a whole lotta royal icing blood splatter = )

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Instructables user RavingMadStudios made a cake shaped like the Dark Tower from The Lord of the Rings. The Eye of Sauron is a cupcake. The structure is supported by cardboard tubes resting on a bundt pan.

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This oversize creation weighs in at a whopping 15 pounds and measures more than a foot tall. And at 1,800 calories a slice, it’s not for the faint of heart.[...]

It starts with the pies, which it par-bakes. The half-cooked pumpkin pie is dipped into chocolate cake batter and baked. The apple pie and vanilla cake get the same treatment and are baked on top of the chocolate cake. Its massive size means that it spends hours in the oven. Homemade buttercream is then — literally — the icing on the entire cake.

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Cake Wrecks asks the question: How hard can it be to make a pumpkin cake? And then answers it by posting the worst attempts at making a cake look like a pumpkin. This is just one. Eight more await your viewing. Link

Also check out the roundup of horrible Halloween cakes. Link

Karen Portaleo of Highland Bakery does some impressive cake work, such as this 200-pound octopus cake. Other examples at the link include a poker table, a porta-potty, and a Q*bert figure.

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Jackie was moving away to Oregon. So her cousin, reddit user thetwaddler, made this cake in reference to the classic computer game The Oregon Trail.

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Previously:
Oregon Trail: The Movie
The Alderaan Trail

Last year I announced the Threadcakes competition after it had already rolled to a close, but now’s your chance to actually participate in the contest. Simply choose your favorite Threadless shirt, then turn it into a cake and submit the image to the Threadcakes gallery. The prizes aren’t listed yet, but I’m sure they will include some awesome shirts.

The inspiration from the cake above can be seen here.

Rachel Mount is an accomplished cake artist in northwest London. She made this cake that looks like an ashtray. Sorry, that’s all the information that I can find. But you can browse her website to view more marvelous designs.

via Nerdcore | Artist’s Website | Photo: Rachel Mount

If you thought your birthday sucked, just think how the kid with the doggy Spiderman cake felt! It’s just one of twenty birthday cakes that will either be the life of the party or the last straw, depending on your outlook.

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It looks like a slab of bacon on a cutting board, but it’s actually a cake. Food artist Debbie Goard has a flickr stream filled with her amazing work, including cakes that look just like a can of Spam, a steak, and a beer keg.

Link via Albotas | Artist’s Website (warning: self-starting sound) | Previously on Neatorama: Hello Kitty Zombie Cake, Yoda Cake

Louise Hill of Love to Cake is a London-based graphic designer and visual effects artist. That is her trade, but her passion is making fancy cakes. This sea turtle cake won her the gold medal at Britain’s 2009 Cake Show.

flickr photostream via reddit | Artist’s Website

Image: willito, screenshot by SciFiWire

YouTube user willito has a video of Battlestar Galactica cake that has a shifting, glowing red eye.

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This brain cake looks terrifying, but the process to create it is pretty cool. The brain folds are simply made of frosting and the blood is only food coloring. I think a simple way to make things even more delicious would be to used a raspberry puree in place of food coloring.

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Someone alert This Is Why You’re Fat, because this sexy dessert certainly will help you pack on the calories…but oh man does it look delightful. I must admit, if I were to choose the next food trend after bacon, I’d totally chose s’mores –although s’mores with maple bacon would be good even with the current food trend.

What would you guys choose for the next food trend?

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Whatever the occasion, someone will say it with a cake. Someone somewhere is probably very happy it was just a cold sore! See more embarrassing cakes at Stupid Idiots. Link -via Digg

If you enjoy delicious-looking cakes or ones that look adorable, this mole rat cake is not for you. If you like the occasional bizarre and unusual cake on the other hand, than you might join me in saluting this monster treat. I have to wonder if the cake inside is red velvet with raspberry filling to help make it even more disturbing.

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If you wondered how people actually made some of the cakes in the Threadcakes contest, previously featured on Neatorama, then you’ll love this time-lapse video of a Threadless tee shirt being made into a cake. The process is so detailed and so fascinating.

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Love iced cream cones but hate the iced cream? Then you’ll love these Cupcake cones on Instructables with plenty of instructions (naturally) to make your own sweettreats at home.

Delicious, clever, and surprising, these cupcakes impersonating ice cream cones are sure to delight!

Now that’s a quote that I can’t begin to dispute.

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Ever wonder what a cake based on a Threadless tee would look like? Threadcakes is a website featuring contest entries based on just that concept. Some of the pictures are just great, like the cake above that is based on this shirt.

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It’s bad, right? And the one paw appears to have six digits on it. In case you don’t know what the UK logo looks like, click the link. You’ll be stunned at the similarity.

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I adore this steampunk wedding cake, it’s so classy, yet it looks so delicious. I’d love to see the outfits worn at a wedding with a cake like this too.

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It may not be holiday specific, but this washtub cake is adorable. I bet Ernie would love to get a rubber duckie cake for his birthday.

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Lard of the Rings, anonymous

Clockwork Orange, by Julia Kenner

Every year, the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne holds its Annual C-U Edible Book Festival.

Around the world on April 1st bibliophiles, book artists, and food lovers gather to celebrate the book arts and the (literal!) ingestion of culture. Participants create edible books that are exhibited, documented then consumed.

Here are the winners of the 2008 competition: Link – via Boing Boing

If you can’t make it home to Thanksgiving dinner, here’s an adorable set up to make you feel nice and cozt anyway. Can you tell what it is? Here’s a hint, it’s a cake in a cup form. Yup, it’s a cup cake Thanksgiving dinner.

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