Sunday Sweets: More Threadcakes
August 2, 2009 The Threadcakes competition ends tomorrow, so if you're planning on entering you'd best get a move on. Oh, but first, allow me to demoralize you a bit with some more of the amazing entries:
(Same deal as last week: Threadless design first, followed by the Threadcake entry. Click on the names for more photos & info.)
By Erin Okuno
By Leslie Evans
And finally, I have to give a shout-out to my fellow cake lovers at the national ICES convention in Illinois, which is ending today. I especially appreciate y'all spreading the Wrecky joy amongst the as-yet-uninitiated at the con. Case in point: Kathy (of Kathy's Kakes), taught a class on "unusual tier styles" Friday, and this was her demo cake:
See anything familiar? Here, let me zoom in:
Yep, those are the Carrot Jockeys - although they've traded in their carrots for little orange candies to fit the ICES "Sweet Time in '09" theme. Kathy reports that roughly half of the class "got it." (The other half was quickly indoctrinated). Excellent work, Kathy! And to you new ICES readers, welcome!
Reader Comments (107)
oooh, pretty! i really like the cow jumping over the moon cake. :] adorable.
WHAT?! Am I first? I hope so. I love that last one! I'm going to attempt it someday. Hey, you should do a Sunday Sweets on Topsy Turvy cakes, then on the Monday, do TT gone WRO-ONG! Sorry if you've done this, I can't remember.
I think I like the ones last time better, but these are still totally cool!
And candy jockeys, yaaayyyy!!
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Jennifer Flynn just BLEW MY MIND!!!!! so awesome!!!!
Wow, seriously, tons of awesome Threadcakes! I'm glad I didn't attempt one, or I'd be embarrassed!
Wowza. They are amazing.
LOVE THE COWS!!!! And the carrot jockeys of course.
That Noah Express cake totally needs to win!
Yeehaw, naked baby jellybean jockeys!
Seriously, these are some amazing cakes.
COWS!!!! cows cows cows cows cows cows.... hee hee hee.
Oh, and lovely carrot jockeys!
I am so glad I am not a judge. I don't know how y'all are going to choose!
Love the cows and the Noah Express.. although my heart is still with the lonely robot cake from last week. (Get it:) )
The first and third ones are my favorites. So colorful and cute!
Love the Noah cake, and am amazed by the amount of work put into every little animal, and Carrot Jockeys on a topsy turvy cake? That's priceless... Great Sunday, you're making me hungry!
Holy cow - the mind boggles to think about the time, effort, and attention to detail that went into these cakes. Absolutely incredible...
Of course, the downside to having a fairly vivid imagination is that I can all too easily imagine what a talented wreckorator can do with these concepts.
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These are absolutely amazing.
Every cake should have a carrot jockey!
Those are some amazing cakes...
I think the cow over the moon one is my favorite of the ones you posted today!
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the cow jumoing over the moon... the fantasy cakes.. I could never judge... unbelieavable amount of work and creativity. I bow before them.
( from she who thinks a three layer red velvet cake iced up is a tough thing to get done)
I have no other words.
hahaha I actually wore that first shirt just yesterday :) wish I had the cake too
They are so so so beautiful....
If I ever take a cake decorating class I would hope dearly that the teacher but carrot jockeys on the sample cake!
Amazing work! As always, I am green with envy every Sunday. =)
Those cakes are amazing! As are the thread designs. Love the Jelly Belly jockies. At least they look like Jelly Bellys. Rock on you artists of flour, egg and sugar!
Oh, they are all amazing!
Good luck to all who enter and way to go Kathy!
The cow-jumping-over-the-moon cake is a masterpiece!
And yay for naked mohawk baby candy jockies!
I recognize the amount of time that must have gone into Leslie's cake, but those faded colors make it look very unappetizing.
Those are all awesome!
Those are absolutely amazing! I don't know how you could ever choose! What talent!
real question from an admiring non-cake maker here: These seem like art, but not like something you want to eat. I love cake. Do any of these beautiful cakes taste good? At what point does the balance shift from taste to beauty? Can one have both?
How, how, how do you pick?? They're all so kewl. The cow faces just crack me up.. and the Noah's ark? The zebra's grin? I'd have to throw everyone's name into a hat and pick blindly.
LOOOOVE the cows.. and the Eat Yourself cake (on the contest gallery page) is awesome!!!
Naked baby carrot jockeys are never not funny...not even when they aren't riding carrots.
I'm in love with that cake, too.
Also, I totally want that cow cake. Too. Adorable. For. Words.
I just cannot believe how amazing all of the Threadless cakes are! I think the Cow Jump is my favorite in this entry, but I do love the expression on Noah's face.
Jen, I do not envy you!
I loved so many of the cakes over at Threadcakes, I couldn't pick a fav!
And yay Carrot/Candy Jockeys!
I am in LOVE with that Noah's Ark cake! So adorable and it must have taken a ton of work.
The cow cake and the Noah Express cake are awesome! And kudos to Kathy for slipping in a Cake Wrecks reference on her cake and then explaining it to the class. :)
long live the naked mohawked baby carrot jockeys
My vote is for the cows. I think it looks way better than the original.
I looked at the whole site last week, some are outright brilliant. It's amazing what cake artists can do with basic ingredients. WOW!
Oh my gosh. That first shirt is unbelievably cute! I've never bought a threadless shirt, but I might have to because I love it so much.
They are all gorgeous!! They look so difficult to make, it seems a shame to eat 'em!
I love your Sunday sweets. The cow cake is heart-breakingly lovely and sweet. I LOVE the tiered cake with the mini baby jockeys. Some day, decades from now, the baby jockey cakes will be like the stump cakes. They will be a tradition that no one understands.
There are some incredible cakes for this competition. I made one myself, but quickly realized I wasn't going to win, but I got to say I don't mind losing to these great cakes.
Love love love the cow. Contemplating it is a moooooving experience. (Saith the bad-pun lover.)
And super-love love love the naked Mohawked baby carrot (or jellibean) jockey! What a tribute!
Regarding those Threadless cakes, all I can say is you certainly have your work cut out for you. Those are ALL beautiful!! Good luck with all that! =)
The cow cake is sweet as can be, and I think the cake girl's face is even better than the design's face!
WOW
those are some really amazing cakes! i cant imagine how long it much take to finish something like that!
the cow shirt is too dang cute!
The cows! Oh, the cows! So freakin' cute!
And the Dandy Lions cupcakes from the Threadcakes link--amazing!
And "Her Hair" from the Finnish baker--beautiful!
I want one of these guys to do my birthday cake and cupcakes! (Yes, I'm having both--and I think in toto there will be three parties, but hey, I'm turning 30, and I think each decade deserves to be celebrated!)
I am in awe of the talent on display during this competition. A friend of mine made a couple of entries, but I didn't have the guts.
Half the class got the Carrot Jockey reference? Only HALF?