Why You Don't Raid Other People's Refrigerators
December 30, 2008 [opening fridge] "Hey Sarah, you got any bee...AAAAUUGGHHH!!!!"
For those of you who would otherwise insist on knowing the whys and wherefores of this photo, here's what submitter Sarah M. had to say for herself (yes, she's the baker):
Subject: I swear I do get paid for making cakes
"The attached however was for a friend's surprise birthday party at a Chinese restaurant and since the birthday girl was born in the year of the rat, well I thought a giant rat cake would be appropriate."
Good thinking. Rats as a whole get far too little face time in the world of cakes.
"However my air conditioning failed halfway through the process and the butter cream icing began to destabilize and well all I could save was the head with the light up eyes."
Yep, see that tin foil "tail"? It's electric!
"The recipient of the cake claimed to my face it was the best d**n thing she had ever received.
- Sarah (I have more talent than this) M."
Sarah, I think I speak for everyone here when I say: you really need to buy better beer. Is that Miller Lite I spy in the door? Tsk, tsk. Oh, and also: we should all be so lucky to have friends make us electrified rodent heads for our birthday celebrations. Right, guys?
Reader Comments (118)
Wow!!!!! I was born in 84, the year of the rat and.. I don't know if I'd like that as a cake, though it would be very funny!!
And that is indeed Miller Lite, quite a craptastic beer.
I would be honored if I received a rodent head for my birthday. One with light-up eyes! Wrecktastic!
Hey, she *does* have some Sierra Nevada Celebration in there... and some others that I can't quite make out...
I'm sure the Miller Lite was for a visiting friend with bad taste. I have one of those!!
The only thing that would make this better....if the cake were red velvet!! Is it? It would sooo bring me back to the Steel Magnolias sceen of the armadillo cake!! How do you make grey icing???
I would love a light up cake for my birthday! Go Sarah!
First post here.
I love this site, I got a digital camera for Christmas, and I am on the hunt for wrecks.
BTW, that's Sierra Nevada underneat those Miller Lite cans. Good beer.
Yes, I mis-spelt underneat on purpose. And spelt.
:) Patrick
What's wrong with Miller Lite? Go Milwaukee!
I'm wondering if the rat ate the rest of the food in the fridge...guessing it doesn't like beer...or at least not Miller Lite. ;-)
Cool idea by the way, creepy, but cool!
Yes. You have lucky friends, Sarah. I would be ecstatic with a phone call. BTW, was the cake taken to the restaurant? What did they think?!
Well, she does have Sierra Nevada in there as well, so that helps somewhat.....
HA HA HA HA - that's pretty darn awesome (knowing it's a gift...that your friend made for you). And yes, by all means, by better beer! Life is too short to drink cheap wine or beer!
Definitely creepy, but I think it's awesome!
It's like some perverse reverse version of Room 101 from 1984, where there is a rat whose greatest fear is lite beer...
Cakecrime does not entail death. Cakecrime IS death.
Points for having Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in the fridge though!
I do believe that's Sierra Nevada. An excellent choice! I hear it goes great with rat...
There's also some tasty Sierra Nevada's in there. I assume the Miller Lite cans are for the guests.
-Rob
There's something to say about rats and Chinese restaurants...
Rat cake- It's electric!
So hysterical, that head just sitting there!!
WV- unpol- make sure you unpol the rat head... don't want to waste electricity.
I just like the whole rat in a Chinese restaurant concept. Not exactly unsual, but bold nonetheless. And yes... please do something about the beer. There's only so much we can forgive.
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Love this! I wish I could get a pig head for my birthday, being born in the year of the boar... Very cool.
Well despite the subject matter, it's actually quite a cute cake, imo.
She does have better beer...I see some Sierra Nevada in there!
If i get a piece of it... will i be sick?
Is there crunchy and soft filling in the cake?
Ouah!
That shocks me this morning! >_< Thanks for the waking-up-help!
Hey, she's got some more sophisticated beers in there. I'm spying some Sierra Nevada pale ale bottles.
I do laugh that she put the rat head in the beer fridge.
But all I can think of is the crazy armadillo groom's cake off Steel Magnolias.
I like it.
Was it red velvet?
Man, just wish I could have seen the whole cake. . .
Omg, yes. If it's a red velvet cake, perfect (I read some comments before I posted this time! LOL)
It already looks like it's sitting in a vat of blood although I'm not quite sure why.
And Miller Lite definitely for those friends with less umm...refined tastes!
I would say a good stiff dark lager to go with this. :op
~Amy B
Seems to me if you're eating electrified rat's head cake, you shouldn't give a rat's @$$ what the beer is!
(oh dear, was that profanity?)
It's really well made, but I don't want her making my birthday cake. I'm year of the monkey. A decapitated monkey head would just be too traumatic. :<
Hey man, I'm all about trying different beer, and I like pretty much everything. Having said that, there is almost always some Miller Lite in my fridge! I guess being a beer snob is cool for some people...
I now know what my next birthday cake will be. Thanks!
I think it's very cute.
I also spy a can of Bud Light sitting next to the Miller lite, so I'm good with that, but be careful, Miller lite doesn't play well with others.
I have been searching for wrecks at the new grocery store by my house to no avail, she is actually really good. *sigh*
First they light up mums at Homecoming, then they light up shirts for Christmas, and pjs for action heros, and little kids shoes--I guess it was just a matter of time before we light up cakes, eh?
But, a rat's head? Creepy. And it looks like a guy frig
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I also see Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in there... at least better than Miller Lite...
If nothing else, that would be an *awesome* Halloween cake. Not the cutsey kind, mind you, but the kind that would horrify everyone.
Hilarious. Points to the baker for being a great sport.
do I spy a rat head in a mini-fridge? I'd love to see that trap that caught that thing! ugh...nasty
"the butter cream icing began to destabilize and well all I could save was the head with the light up eyes."
So how big was the entire cake then? Lol, I love it!
Shirley
YIKES! R.O.U.S! R.O.U.S! How scary is that?!
I used to have several pet rats (a total of 15 over a few years), and I think that this is awesome, in a totally non-wrecktastic way. I would love a cake like that!
(Rats are the sweetest little animals, by the way. I miss mine terribly.)
Oh I love it!!!!! I had several posts to catch up on and today's and yesterday's posts are fabulous!!!!
R.O.U.S's indeed!!!! That is fantastic Sarah! What a creative thing to do for your friend...and I do hope it was red velvet...PUH-LEASE tell me it was red velvet!!!
If that had been a real rat, the beer would have been HISTORY.
(Yep, I own two rats. Sweet little gluttons, they are.)
It's an R.O.U.S.! (for Princess Bride fans,anyway)
You're right Gina... DEFINITELY a R.O.U.S.!
That's brilliant. I too was born in the year of the rat and they are my favourite animals.
I think I'd prefer an ox!
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
That is so funny! I don't know if I would want one myself, but it's still funny!
That is brilliant ... How exactly does one go about making electric eyes for a cake? Is the tail a plug? Are there electric rat cake eyes for sale somewhere??