Sunday Sweets: 2010 Cake Odyssey
March 21, 2010 Last week, I promised that we would bring you the sci-fi and fantasy cakes from That Takes the Cake, the cake and sugar art show that took place recently in Austin. I have gone through what seems like thousands of photos trying to pick out the coolest and most creative and I think I succeeded. Most of the photos here were found on snarkygurl's Flickr page and a couple were taken by Lynn Moore who should be a professional photographer if she's not already. As with last week, I only know who made a couple of these so, if it's yours, let me know and I'll credit you. On to the sweets!
This first one is one of our favorites:
What can I say? Jen and I are suckers for steampunk.And check out these adorable close-ups of the robots:
This was made by Janet Rosebeary and you can see more of her work here.
And here's a sweet little topsy-turvy Robots cake:
I don't know anything about this robot. Except that he's made of awesome.
This next one falls into the Sugar Art category (no cake) but I think it took top honors:
Here's an adorable alien:
And the house from UP:
...though I'm not sure how this fits into the sci-fi and fantasy theme. Cute though! Love the balloons.
And lastly, we have a B-movie classic:
Everybody sing with me!"Attaaaaaack, of the killer to-ma-toes..."
Nominate a Sweet or suggest a theme by e-mailing me at Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.Similar Sweets: (Dr.) Horrible Sunday Sweets
Reader Comments (96)
How is it that under the first pic it says Jen and i and at the bottom it says posted by Jen?
ET has always scared the crap out of me. I'm not saying that its not well done, but there is a better than good chance that I'm going to have nightmares now.
just read through kimberley's description of making her awesome cake. Wow.... just wow! How much fun would that have been!
MC from NZ
Lisa, agreed. I've been terrified of ET since I first laid eyes on him, so I got a bit of a start when I opened the site today, lol! I'll admit the artistry is very well done though.
I have a 17 year old nephew who thinks that 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' is a running joke between myself and his father. He doesn't believe it was an actual movie, nor that his father and I used to watch the cartoon in our PJs every saturday. Sigh.
LOVE the steampunk cake. Love love love. Is it a wedding cake?
I love Love LOVE your Sunday postings, not that don't like the other days' posts they're funny. But I like seeing the good cakes too.
I LOVE the Robot's and UP cakes! So cute!
great cakes!
& i got most of of those in the mega geek cake
Pooh's Pics: I hand-cut over 1500 bricks and laid about 1300ish. Mostly so I could do the Close Encounters joke. I have a little texture mat for bricks but decided to go insane instead.
Krusho and others: It's Mike from MST3K because I've seen more Mike eps than Joel eps. Plus Pumaman is my favourite MST3K pain and that's Mike. I think Joel is usually in orange and Mike usually in blue, no?
Meaghan: I'm pretty sure McCarey was spoofing his own bakery's name, hence the quotations. He had plenty of super-nice things to say about the cake that made me fan-girl-squeeful.
Barb: It took 4 months to make. You wouldn't have wanted to eat it if it had real cake.
Anonymous: That's Diana from V going down the stairs.
MC from NZ: Less fun than you'd think. Fun at the start, fun at the end, and a lot of pain in the middle. Especially watching Alien vs Predator for research. That gave me dain bramage.
All the cakes were very well done, including the ET cake, but I'm with the poster who was upset by the massive scale error between Elliott and ET. ET is about 3x as large as he should be, he's much shorter than Elliott in the movie. But, all the rest was awesome!
wv:bourren "This site is NEVER bourren!"
@ Kimberley:
I wasn't saying anything negative about your cake: it's amazing and no one could think different! I was just amused that Jen has made me question every word put between quotation marks. :D
The Steampunk cake is the creation of the delightful and talented Janet Rosebeary. I know because Janet and her cake were in a show in the D.C. area this weekend.
I got to chat with Mike McCarey at the show and eventually the subject of the Austin show came up. Mike said based on my decorating style there was a cake in the Austin show that I would have loved (Kimberly Chapman's cake). He praised it to the heavens. I was laughing just listening to him try to describe it.
So, Kimberly, Mike is still talking up your cake. Direct Quote: "No photo could ever do this cake justice."
The Gollum cake behind E.T. (picture of it is on the Flikr page)is amazing. Creepy as hell.
Love the movie theater cake!
That Attack of the Killer Tomatoes piece takes the cake. No, wait, it is the cake. Anyhow, it's the best of a strong field. Not the fanciest, but the best.
OH1 I was beat to it, but I aM LOVING THE MST3K ON THE TIERED CAKE. Thats such a creative idea
LOVE the "Killer Tomatoes" cake, and also the shot of the 'bots from MST3K on the gigantic cake. Sweet!
are some pretty elaborate cakes. Great job!
I surprised there where no Wall-es. Oh wells, these cakes make me jealous to the extreme.
-Cori M.
Cute! Being proud of my nerdyness is a great thing that I rarely get to indulge, but my only complaint is...MORE STAR TREK! Come on! I know SOMEONE out there made a giant tribble cake.
I add to the call for more steampunk cakes. Wrecked or not.
These are all amazing!
Also, I was looking at Kimberly Chapman's more detailed descriptions/pictures...did anyone else notice the "Cake Wrecks" book in the background of the picture showing the steps of the movie theatre? Just awesome! =)
Mike & the 'bots FTW
FYI: The ShowCake theme for our show was sci-fi/fantasy, however, that theme doesn't apply to the entire show. That is why you'll see pictures that don't fall under that category.
Kyla Myers
President, Capital Confectioners
Organizer, That Takes the Cake
To burton:
*squeeee*
And just when I was almost starting to sorta come down from my Mike McCarey high. :)
Thanks, you made my day!
WV: cusbe: one of many random nonsense words that came into my head every time Mike McCarey walked by the kiddie table where I spent most of the show volunteering. Like this: "And would you like a chocolate or vanilla cupcaaaaaa sneggle fuddwaa schnoop schnoop biiing cusbe calalalalalalaaaaa omfgmikemccareyCAKEGODisrighttherrrrre..."
I adore that cake from the movie "UP" so very cute! All of these cakes are so nice I wish I could get one of them made for my birthday cake.
Kimberly's cake was the last cake I got to at the show, and my camera battery died just 2 or 3 pictures in! But it was too awesome to let it go at that, so I ran home, picked up the other battery, ran back and snapped close-up shots until they kicked me out at show close! Got to talk to Kimberly (who was freaking out b/c she'd just been told Mike McCrary wanted to talk to her, hehe), and she filled me on the 3 or 4 refs that I didn't get. Then I went home and quizzed my husband ;-) Even made it a game on FB, to see how many refs my equally geeky friends could get. There were a lot of really fantastic cakes, but this one definitely 'took the cake' for me!
If you look close, Hans' frozen in carbonite hand is reaching toward the bucket of popcorn set just out of reach. And the dalek is frying the guy in front of him because he won't quit talking on the cell phone. The details really make this cake...
Hi, I have just finished my half yearly exam (this is relevant i swear!) and tonight I read through 17 pages of your posts. Laughed so hard I cried and my mum couldn't figure out why. Thanks for the de-stresser! Much love for you blog, definitely will be bookmarking and following it!
As I'm quite sure you've realised this comment isn't about this post. Some particular posts that I liked where the Mario and Zelda cakes as well as your post about the two steps for ruining a cake with the randomly placed piles of poos. Some good laughs there. Also a fan of the puns.
Elizabeth.
Awesome pics!
Love the robots polishing the steampunk cake. Killer Tomatoes is adorable! So is ET. So are the punny movie posters on the tiered cake. Love the restroom door signs! Sugar art piece is aMAzing.
BTW, that robot is a girl, hence the pink apron, pink earrings and "rosy" cheeks.
I am geeking so hard right now! Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and MST3K guys FTW!!!!
Although the theme of the cake show was Sci Fi and Fantasy, not ALL of the cakes have to fit into that category, just the large "showcase" cakes. Other competition categories, like "Adult Intermediate Novelty Tiered" or "Adult beginner Wedding" don't have to fit the theme, although some people do choose to do so. the "Up" house was from the Category: Culinary Student, Sculpted cakes.
plenty more photos here:
http://shinymetalobjects.net/cake/ThatTakesTheCake2010/
LOL! The movie theater cake/showpiece is so cool. Leeloo showing Agent K her multipass to get into the theater =D The guy from Babylon 5 stealing Quark's popcorn =D The Conehead family enjoying a night out together...
And the carpet! It's perfect even down to the carpet.
The rest were equally fun (those ADORABLE robots polishing the steampunk cake!! and LOL the last time I saw Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was at a Halloween party many years ago) but that one was really, really cool.
"I know I'm going to miss her. A tomato ate my sister!"
That has to be my favorite cake. I now want one for my birthday :)
What, do we -not- think that a flying house is a fantasy?
And also fantastic?
Hey Meaghan - do a Google Image search for "Han Solo frozen in Carbonite cake" and you'll be pleased with the results! I have a few of these saved for my "to-do someday" cake list. :)
Great photos of great cakes! It took me a while to realize that the robot from the next table isn't sitting next to the Coneheads, though! :P
Just an F.Y.I, as a nurse who assists with circumcisions I can tell you that "Big" E.T's finger is an exact replica of a fresh one. I'm sure plenty of moms and dads of newborn boys will second me on this one...I want to slap vaseline and gauze on that thing. And I too started singing "Ah-tack! Of the killer To-MA-toes!" long before I was told. What GREAT cakes!
I'm going to second this comment!
Anonymous said...
Isn't that Number 5 from Short Circuit?
March 21, 2010 1:06 PM
because YES!! it has to be. I want to see this movie again...
it had a catchy little song in it.. I can still hum it. lol
Puberty, puberty love....
First off, Kimberly Chapman - you rock! I have forwarded the link to your pages to all my geeky fan-girl and fan-boy friends and we love you.
Second - did you see the theme for next year?!? - Comic Books: Super Heroes and Super Villains! Can't wait...
I know the E.T. cake was talent and hard work, but I'm sure some penicillin could fix that...thing on the tip of E.T.'s finger.
The Up house is my favorite :-D
Val
I like turvy Robots cake.
The house from UP probably fits into the sci-fi and fantasy theme because dogs cannot speak English and balloons do not let you fly!
I love killer tomatoes... at least the show not if they were real ::shudder::
Oh no. Does anyone else think the robot in the pink apron looks like a penis? Maybe I am crazy.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
You should totally have the cake from the awesome pc/mac/x-box game portal!
best game ever ;)