Sunday
Apr182010
Sunday Sweets: Cutesy Wootsy
April 18, 2010 Once in a while here on Sunday Sweets, we build an entire post around just one fantastic cake. This is that cake:
I'm pretty sure I teared up a bit when I first saw it.
And since most of you would complain vigorously if we only had one cake on Sunday Sweets, here are a few more:
(Baker unknown)Lions and tigers and... giraffes oh my!
(Made by Cortnie Hartwig)The candle placement is a bit odd but those owls are super cute.
(Submitted by Margaret S. Baker unknown)Jen thinks this bulldog is almost too realistic to be cute.
I think he's judging me.
(Made by Belinda at Lovable Cakes)A sweet Easter lamb between smoke breaks.
(Made by Courtney's Cakes)The patches make this one.
(Made by Kylie Lambert of LeCupcake)I don't know why but these cows make me want to eat more chicken.
(Made by Charmaine and found here)There's nothing quite as sweet as a baby giraffe.
And finally, as I sit here with one of my beautiful cats asleep beside me and the other perched behind my neck whacking me with her tail, I think it would be nice to give a cakey shout-out to our furry friends:
Simple yet adorable.
Send your Sweets nominations to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.
Reader Comments (98)
The blue lion cake is beyond adorable! And the matching cookies!!
The owl cake is really nicely done, but I can't to think the little owls are saying "Mommy, why do we have candles in our heads?" And the mommy owl is kinda ashamed to give an answer.
Oh, gosh, the owls!
Big owl seems to be saying "Hey, uh, candles in your heads?"
And baby owls are "Wha? *blink, blink*
Also, LOVE the cat in the bag!
Some of these cakes are too cute to eat!!
OMG. Reading "Cake Wrecks" while eating can be hazordous to your health, even on Sunday. The patched bunny was so adorable that I inhaled in shock and choked.
These are the most adorable cakes I've seen in years. They put all the other Sunday Sweets to shame.
o. my. goodness. this post is so chock full of amazing I can barely handle it.
The owl cakes were my daughter's second birthday cakes. The candles were there so she could have something to blow out. Samantha got to eat one of the baby owls all by herself. As Marla said, the baker is Cortnie Hartwig (vs. Courtnie). She is a dear friend and just baked the cakes for fun (free of charge). They tasted as good as they look! Also, I'm pretty curious to know from where the photo came.
Oh, too lovely to eat!
I'm really curious - what are these cakes like to eat? How much of them is just frosting? Is it GOOD frosting? What do they look like when you cut them up? Enquiring minds!
I just love 'em! Amazing.
Cat, bag, cute.
Looking at that honestly cute lamb thing there, I cannot believe that during the whole Lamb Cake Debacle earlier on, I'd totally forgotten about a cake I had once, when I was young and foolishly sentimental (as opposed to my current state of "old and healthily jaded").
It was Easter time, and my older sister brought my family a store-bought, from -a -mold, lamb cake.
NO ONE ever got a chance to even taste it, because I thought that it was just too darn adorable to HURT --i.e. "eat". ("Cake? What cake? HERE, let's all have some lovely ice cream / pudding / toast...")
I swear, it spent YEARS just chilling out in its cool little apartment, only getting out for mini vacations (in a cooler) while I defrosted. Eventually the change of climate took its toll, and there came the time when all of the back & forth, in & out had the little critter looking like it'd had better days. Of course, it really hadn't--EVER--had any of those.
Anyway, I had to do what ALL owners of older,failing/suffering/ sick/injured/freezer-burned pets have to do at some point...
Have a major fit of denial.
THEN, do the right thing--which in this case was to have the husband gently dispose of my old friend, while I looked the other way.
I bet I still have Polaroids of that thing.
=^6.6^=
Love the reference to Chick-fil-A! That cow cake is awesome!
I kept saying, "Aaaaaaaaaaaaahh". Love them. Samsue
These are just too cool!!!
Hey! Where did the kitty/bunny cake that was being debated about being a hot mess or not go? I was going to show my mom and now it is gone... sad...
they are so cute.. i wish i could get one on my birthday, love all of them
love all of them, the one with the cow looks older but who cares, love it.
i love them all, especially the last one.
That last one is the most perfect way to represent a cat ever. Epic win! (The rest are so adorable that I can't think of how to comment.)
Am I the only one that sees cakes this cute and thinks there's no way I could CUT into them? It kind of creeps me out to think of slicing into the sweet little giraffe, or the bulldog. They are very cute, and SO well done. Truly works of art.
I love the bulldog and I LOVE the cat in a bag. It reminds me of Maru (Google it if you are not familar - he's wonderful.)
Emily
LOL...Chick fil-a...LOL! You always crack me up!
*scream*
If I had to cut any of these cakes I would cry. They're so beautiful and so adorable, I could never... I-I just could not possibly stick a knife or fork into them. I would feel like a killer.
Aww all of these cakes are so cute but that lamb one looks like it set off some flowery fire works lol. I loved that cute cat in a bag one. Though the cat seems to be the same size as the bag still very cute.
Just saw the piece in "Reader's Digest" -- congratulations!
Bag kitteh cake is WIN!
WV: enton.. that cake is too darn cute to be enton!
The owls remind me of Meneer de Uil (Mister Owl) from the Dutch children's show Fabeltjeskrant (fable paper).
Picture of him:
http://www.tctubantia.nl/multimedia/archive/01225/Fabeltjeskrant_UIL_1225072b.jpg
I know these cakes are all very gorgeous and worth seeing, but aren't there enough "cute" themes on Sunday Sweets? Seems to be the only theme... Would be nice to see other themes of gorgeous cakes! :)
What a collection! Honestly, I didn't think anything could top that little blue tiger (so sweet), but the cat in the bag...!
Love the Sunday Sweets. SO beautiful and cute.
I LOVE the Lions, Tiger and Giraffes one. My kids had those same characters on their cute baby crib bedding! Thanks for the memories of that--from a decade and more ago. They are darling!
Arlene - you obviously haven't met my cat GrisGris -no matter the bag or box, she'll either get into it, or she will puzzle over how to at least try.
Since my "Kitteh Gonna Get Ya" was at the competition and thus out in the open air and fluctuating temps for 2 days - there was no way I was going to serve it. Being my first competition cake - I was rather attached to it and could NOT bring myself to throw it away. I even got teary-eyed thinking about it! But a couple of weeks of having it on my table...it let me know it was "time" - WHOOOO!??!!! Gag! Bad smell - made it VERY easy to part with at that point! LOL!
Most of the other cakes on my cakecentral page of photos were for friends' parties and since I was in attendance and noone else could bring themselves to cut - I had to do the honors! I'm like "Y'all - it's a CAKE! Let's EAT!" LOL!
The only ones that weren't eaten were my subsequent competition cakes - the "Dead Man's Mardi" cake (looks like a New Orleans-style above ground tomb w/royal icing skeleton reaching out...) and this years "Oyster on the half shell" cake.
Cheers!
Wendl
Absolutely, totally adorable!
That last one is fab, and unlike the others is one that I looked at and thought 'I could actually do one like that' (just maybe, with a lot of time and a dose of luck!!). Love it!
WV: satoehar....wtf???
That Kitteh cake is beyond adorable.
I don't know if the baker of the owl cakes was thinking of this when he/she baked them but - my mom and aunts all had these carved wooden owl candle holders from the 1970's and those little owls look Exactly like them! The candle placement is in the exact same spot too. So to me, it made perfect sense.
The cute... it burns!!
I'm not sure which I like the mos... oops, my feline mistress just informed me that the Bag O' Cat is the best one of them all. She also said she'd love to see a cake of PussyFoot kneading Marc Anthony's back (Stars of some Warner Bros Loony Toons)
I love, LOVE, LOVE!!!! the ears on the adorable patched rabbit cake!
Wonderful! Such amazing talent! I love them all! I wish I could see these in person! :<)
Wishing you a great week!
Barbara Diane
All I can say is thank goodness for these beauties...it would be hard to bare all the horrid Wrecks without the eye candy that is Sunday Sweets !!! Thanks !
Ah, I didn't realize it was a bunny. Thanks Stephanie.
Honestly I thought it was a bear, with a blanket. The patches are adorable though...
I've actually seen adorable owl candleholders, so I'm not seeing what's wrong with the candle placement. :D
These are all so adorable!
Those are so cute!
This is Jacob Taylor's grandmother. I want to thank you for being so kind and generous to contact Jane & arrange for the cakes at Jacob's funeral.
That's only part of the story....There was 1 1/2 cakes left over,which I froze & took with me for Jacob's memorial skydive. He was a member of the ground crew for Team Fastrax. My daughter, myself, my son in law and his sister did a tandem skydive, spreading Jacob's ashes. We enjoyed the cake afterwards. Jacob loved your website.
Cat in a bag is priceless!
Love the lamb one as well.
Its "eat mor chik(is it i or e?)n"
Though that cow one is adorable, it is a repeat from 1.31.10. Not that I'm complaining, of course.
You really do like the cows, since this is their second appearance on your blog. :)
Still cute though!