Sunday Sweets Steams It Up
November 7, 2010 If you read my other blog, Epbot, then you know I have this eensy teensy tiny obsession with steampunk. This past week I featured some the most amazing steampunk weddings I could find, which of course set me off hunting the most amazing steampunk wedding cakes I could find.
You know, like this:
You'd have to stare at this cake for a looong time to notice all of the details, but don't miss the goggles, keyboard, tiny top hat, and gramophone. Wow.
(Oh, and this was featured on WE tv's Amazing Wedding Cakes a while back, so if you want to see more, check out their season 3 premier.)
Steampunk style often involves dirigibles and hot air balloons (which I love), so this next design gave me a big geeky grin:
There's even a dapper little robot couple in the balloon's basket:
Cute! And I like the bright teal paired with all the brass and gold; so bright and cheerful.
Submitted by Miri R., made by New Renaissance Cakes.So pretty!
How about some cupcakes?
Here's one of my all-time favorite architectural designs:
Made by SpenseLike this:
And this:
[Update: It apparently says 'Oscar.' Or possibly 'Epcot.' Thanks, guys!]
And finally, another wedding cake made for TV:
By Amanda of Venus CakesIs your jaw on the floor? Yeah. Mine, too.
This was featured on The Great Cake Bake by Wedding TV earlier this year. Once again, I'm awe-struck by all these details:
A corset-inspired back:
Oh, and tassels. C'mon, just look at all that! Amazing!(More detail shots on Amanda's blog here.)
So, did I miss one? Or do you have another Sweets genre or cake that I simply *must* feature? Then e-mail it to me at Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com!
Reader Comments (69)
I think the top hat might say Oscar.
--Melissa
It looks like "Oscar" to me...?
I believe the top hat cake says "Oscar"
Judging by the blog post from baker Molly H., the gears at the top of the hat spell out the name of the birthday boy, 'Oscar'.
Re the Top Hat: I went to Molly H.'s link and found that it was a birthday cake for her nephew, "Oscar," so I'm guessing that's what the top is saying. And if you look with the notion of "Oscar" in your head, you can totally see it.
Oscar on the hat.
Oscar? It looks like Oscar to me.
The top hat says "Happy Birthday" :)
THESE ARE CAKE?!
WOW!
it looks like it is the birthday boy's name, Oscar, on the top hat.
What gorgeous cakes!
Beautiful!
I think the top hat birthday cake says "Oscar" across the top?
hey there! :) LOVE this post... because i LURV steampunk. :D anyhoo... the top hat says "happy birthday"... :)
Yep, I was going to say that it says "Oscar" as well. I have to say that I've really come to appreciate steampunk, and have some ideas for decorating my house in the event it's ever actually decorated, rather than just full of stuff. :-)
I believe the top hat says "Happy Birthday"
Wow, what amazingly fabulous cakes! Awesome Sunday Sweets edition!!!
Sweet the sweet I nominated got picked! I like some of the others even better though.
I wish I could pull of the steampunk look.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I THINK the top hat might say Epcot! Wait! I mean Oscar!
I will NOT post that I believe the top hat says Oscar, in the fear of looking like a goofball after all the other posts already let you know that. So I'll simply say that today's cakes are GORGEOUS. I'm only just becoming aware of the growing steampunk movement..but I'm slightly fascinated.
I LOVE steampunk. Here in England, they have a Steampunk Ball. Can't wait to go.
Uh oh...another Epcot with the Oscar on the top hat. LOVE the steampunk designs.
Sharon's Edible Art
The one with the wings makes me think of the Golden Snitch.
I think the top hat says Epcot!
I looove steampunk!! Though I like it better if the gears are actually "functional" in the design rather than just strewn about. It's still pretty, just not as exciting as maybe the first and fifth cakes which look like they could be working machines with functions. I keep staring at them, waiting for the gears to turn and something to happen!
/geekiness
As usual, I have no idea what the Sunday Sweet topic is about this week. I'm assuming it's some more sci-fi stuff, which I'm not a big fan of. The link you provided to the tophat answers your question about what it says on top. There are probably 900 comments already telling you it's Oscar.
The Top Hat cake says Happy Birthday
Top hat looks like "happy birthday" to me...
The hat says 'Oscar'. And I think he went to Disneyworld for his birthday.
Actually, the top hat says "EPCOT."
Okay... maybe I'm nuts but I thought it said Scott on the top of the hat???
Okay, these cakes are the STEAM of the crop! So awesome!
That Montgolfier balloon is excellent!
OK, so the guy on the awesome cake by Spense is called Professor Gearheart. I Googled it and found this on Youtube. Dude! Go to about 40 seconds... Also, I don't speak Japanese, so if someone out there does and it is full of cursing or something, I'm sorry in advance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70dKZjP4NOo
Hooray for steampunk!!
I love the top cake and the top hat cake!!
OMG The stitching on the corset! I can't believe all of the tiny details on this. Incredible!
Happy Birthday, Oscar, can I have a cake like yours, only in copper? Pleeeeeease???
(that didn't take much looking at to see it - but then artistic license abounds)
Love steampunk, works for scrapbooking (esp if you know Tim Holtz), and I love the fashions.
Great collection of cakes, awesome in their close-up details!! Sweet, sweet, Sunday - I'd say best ever!
The actual working, with a purpose, detailed cakes are the most fab, for creativity AND a realistic view.
Thanks for making my Sunday so sweet.
~~Di
You are going to turn me into a Steampunk fan!
Well, there's always Douglas Adams geekdom: http://www.geekmom.com/2010/11/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-magrathea-cake/
but you may have covered that already.
I've always loved the Steampunk style(I depended on you fro the pics of Dragon Con.). So this was wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing!
The band Sugarland has done a lot of Steampunk stuff this year. I love their album cover. Check out their site too. www.sugarlandmusic.com
OMG those are beautiful
Okay, so I obviously have been living under a rock or something, because I have NEVER even heard the term 'steampunk' before this post. Still don't really get what it is. Definition please??
It says "Happy Birthday". The "B" is quite clear on the second word.
@Jenny-- what does it matter if you know what Steampunk is (I'm only vaguely aware of it, due to this blog and an episode of Castle), or aren't a fan of sci fi? All you have to do is look at the cakes and admire the artistry involved. Lots and lots of incredible details, beautifully done. The reason someone chose that design, as opposed to a flower garden-- who cares? The meaning of the details doesn't really matter, either. It's an attractive design, spectacularly executed. And I'm always open to beauty and talent, so love this Sunday Sweets!
My only quibble is that a couple of these look more like sculpture than cake. Yes, the talent involved is impressive, but... I have no desire at all to eat it. I looks beautiful, rather than appetizing (in fact, I worry about how stale the cake must be, given how long it must have taken to create those masterpieces). And isn't eating a cake the whole point of cake??? So, I'm going to be a Grinch and suggest that perhaps some of these designs are better formed in clay, for years of display and enjoyment. And cakes should be cakier looking
wow! those are wonderful.
love the cupcakes.
WV: cones
i got a normal-looking WV for once.
Love the balloon and the silver wedding cake! What gorgeous work on all these cakes.
Oh, and I thought that the corset one was a lampshade until you showed us the lacing on the back. Oops.
Having read all the comments, here is my theory:
The cake in question isn't a top hat, it is an early model of Spaceship Earth. The design was rejected when survey subjects (the bloggers of the pre-Internet age) said, "A giant top hat that says 'Oscar' on top? You need something rounder, like a huge spore. People will look at that and immediately think, 'EPCOT!'"
wv: palback. As in, "Spring forward, palback."
We are having a Steampunk Wedding. My grooms cake is going to be a top hat... working on the wedding cake!
Oh... my... GOD...
how could anyone eat these cakes...?
they're just... too beautifully awesomely awesomazing...
STEAMPUNK STUFF RULES ^^
i love you, Jen >.<
Those are cool and crazy! Tweeted ya. It'd take some pretty accepting women to allow cakes with cogs and such at their weddings. ;)
My jaw had dropped to the floor for that awesome balloon/corset cake. Then I read you saying I bet my jaw dropped and I laughed. Out loud. And got stared at.
I am pretty much decided to chuck classical and go steam punk when I marry coz its just so darn awesome!
I heart you for introducing me to it.