Sunday Sweets: Leaping Lego Lizards, Batman!
October 12, 2008 I've got a Geektastic Sunday Sweet for you this week: the cake made for the Lego Batman video game premier. These photos come from creator Elisa Strauss over at Confetti Cakes, who reports that the cake took her and her team 12 straight days to complete, and weighed in at nearly 300 pounds. Three hundred pounds, people! So, you ready to see it?
Here ya go: get a load of the Gotham goodness:
Yep, it's all cake - vanilla cake, chocolate cake, and red velvet cake, to be precise. Don't you just want to gnaw off that water tower? Or is that just me?
Let's move in for a closer look, shall we?
See, now this is the stuff you never notice from a distance: there's an oil slick puddle on the side, and the trash bags are even shiny!
I'm starting to see why this took 12 days...
The water towers are wood-grained, and the "stone" is even chipped in places. Wowza.
I know you're going to find this hard to believe ('cuz I sure did), but the figures are also completely edible. Honest.
Who wouldn't want the whole set on their desk, though? Kinda makes you wonder if anyone had the heart to eat them...
If you want to see more of Elisa's work, you're in luck: her new book Confetti Cakes for Kids comes out in just a few weeks. Her cover cake is "monstrously" appropriate for this month, too:
Cover photo courtesy of Ben Fink
Reader Comments (87)
Hard to think of this as actual cake, more like sculpture using edible sweet materials, in all their 12-day-old tooth-chipping glory. Still, it's amazing!
Holy awesome cake, Batman. And, all my favorite cake flavors got representation. Dang, that's some talent!
This is simply beautiful. I don't know how I would feel about consuming an edible garbage bag, though.
Just one question:
How did the cake manage to stay edible for 12 days?!
Wow. Do I eat a piece of the building or one of the characters first? I almost don't want to, but cake is meant to eaten!
I love that little guy on the cover. So cute!
Model Railroader finally goes to the kitchen!
Im not even gonna show my son OR husband! They will both want that cake!!! That is amazing!!!
I'd dive right into the oil slick first....bet its really yummy.
goodness! that cake is beyond rad.
im sorry, but it would be SO hard to convince me to eat that. know why? it is, hands down the BEST cake ive ever seen. i think that just might be on a level above that wall-e cake, but thats just me...
I suppose it's too late to mention that "the cake took 12 days" really means that all the figurines and other details were started on T-12, and the cake itself was done later just a bit before final assembly?
That is an amazing cake!! WOW...I can see why is took 12 days...HECK...it would take me about 2 years! LOL Thanks for posting!! XOXO
My two year old daughter saw the Confetti Cake and said, "Eat it all up!"
It looks too pretty to be eaten.
People, people!!! You wouldn't want to eat that cake anyway, even fresh. It's probably only about 25% actual cake inside that thing. It's dowels and cardboard, pieces of metal and probably hot glue. Cakes like that require a tremendous amount of support inside.
It doesn't matter how old the cake inside it, cakes like this aren't made for eating and aren't judged on the quality of actual cake. It's strictly for the construction and decorating results.
really really cute.. i like it
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Amazing!!
Did anyone actually eat this cake? And at what point of the 12 days of making did the edible part come into it? I'm just thinking that 12 day old cake is pretty gross... I can appreciate the work that went into it and all, but I guess I just don't quite see the point if no one is going to eat and enjoy.
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Stuff like this never fails to delight. It shows just how niche human interests can be, and just how skillful people can become at those niche interests.
This woman is awesome! She came to our pastry class to teach us some cake decorating techniques. She's really friendly and loves to say "Did I do that in the demo? No I didn't!" I just wish I can do something half as good as that.
And we do some major showpieces in class just to show that we can do it. I made the David Bowie "Aladdin Sane" CD cover out of chocolate for a project. No one ate it afterwards, it was just for show.
"Sweet" is right -- they did a tremendous job on this cake! I hope they kept it refrigerated during those 12 days, though.
Yep, I'm sure the cake part, under all that fondant, wasn't 12 days old but rather the sculpted bit - what wasn't really meant to be eaten but made of edible materials - was what took so long.
It's...holy crap, Batman. Amazing, amazing.
That cake making lady is very talented, but I've looked at her site and the 'Philly cheese steak cake' is several different kinds of wrong.
I am however going to buy her book if I can learn how to make the cupcakes with the rubber ducks on top.
As Jess said, No Alfred, no cake...after all that I can't believe there is NO Alfred.
Absolutely Fantastic Cake tho!!!! I am truly amazed and impressed!
we are playing this game right now on Wii! That cake is unreal! I love it and wish we could have some LOL.
Holy kraut! That is one sweet looking cake!!
i love batman :]
That has to be the most awesome of the Sunday cakes so far! What a talent!
This cake is AWESOME!!!! My son would have fits if he saw this cake! Heck I'm even geeking out about it!
To Jesurgislac: O.k hon, it looks as if someone has to say it just one more time. It was cut into and eaten and from the looks of the video it looked like it was doing a fine job standing up without wire or hot glue.......
Holly!
O.k!
(Mumbles: I'm just glad no one mentioned the O word today!)
O.k
Peace,
Clueuin
I couldn't ever eat a cake that looks like that; it's too perfect to ruin!
The Batman cake is truly amazing. If I saw that picture on another site, I never would have guessed it was a cake. Wow!
Just a clue, being a batman superfan, the little Lego figures were happy meal toys, availible for Two Dollars each until the last week in October. The only way I would've known, with the quality of that cake, is if I didn't have them already!
That is outstanding! Must show my 8 yr old when he gets home from school.
~ Carrie
That was one of the coolest things ever! It looks just like the video game.
My husband is an uber-geek and still wants to be Batman when he grows up. Christmas gifts to him for the past 2 years have been the Lego Batmobile kit and all 8 Happy Meal characters from the Batman Lego video game. ;)
This is one of the most amazing cakes I have ever seen. We play the video game (of course!) and it looks exactly like it!! The video is fascinating, thank you for the link! I can't believe how spot on the characters are and the attention to detail, wow! Amazing...
*Jaw drops*
I want that cake. I want it now.
Alternatively, I'll take the Joker and Harley Quinn figures, preserved so I can have them on a shelf somewhere...