Sunday Sweets: Be My Valentine?
February 12, 2012 Today I got you a very special valentine. Yes, you. No no, not you - YOU. [waggling eyebrows]
Now, it might look like a regular Sunday Sweets post, but it's filled with awesome Valentines cakes. Just the way you like. Yep. (Who loves ya? Huh?)
Check it out. This one says, "I'm wild about you, Valentine!"
;)
I think it's also saying "Eat me!" - but in a really polite way.
This one is for that adorable nickname I gave you:
;)
By CakeCentral member Miranda1987
"Curly cherry stem."
And I know how much you like Snoop Dog, so...
;)
You're welcome.
Remember that time we released a single balloon at the park, and stood together watching it rise and rise as it drifted off into the rich red sea of the sunset?
No?
Oh.
Well, this is pretty anyway:
;)
By hello naomi
Simple perfection.
Just like you.
(D'awwww.)
If I had the time, ability, or inclination to hand form and dye hundreds of tiny sugar hearts, and then apply them one-by-one to a beautiful cake, it would never look this good:
;)
By Erica O'Brien Cake Design, tutorial for sugar hearts here
But I like to think it'd still make you smile.
Boxes of chocolates are sweet, but you know what's even sweeter?
;)
Boxes of chocolates that let you EAT THE BOX.
And from now on I've giving every box lid a test nibble, just for you.
Speaking of edible, you're not going to believe this, but you can eat this lace:
;)
Well, and not choke on it, I mean. That is, it's supposed to be eaten. Wowza. Can you imagine if ALL lace was edible?
Er....oh.
On second thought, never mind. (Hi, kids!)
Ah, here's just the Sweet we need to rescue my dignity:
;)
That is some serious swag.
Of course, the best Valentines always celebrate what's *inside*:
;)
By Bakingdom
And this makes my technicolor heart oh-so happy.
Speaking of which, you know I have to give you a Valentine that reflects my geeky side, too, right?
;)
Just try not to read too much into the red-shirt thing.
;)
Sub'd by Lisa R., made by SugarRushTreats
I call these, "Love Bytes."
(Heehee!)
And finally, the ultimate expression of love and companionship:
;)
By Cloudy Cakes
And that's no lie.
Have a great Valentines this week, Valentines!
Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets (at) Cake Wrecks (dot) com.
Reader Comments (54)
Aww how sweet-the Star Trek one should have said LOVE long and prosper :D, but it was so sweet anyone. They are all so sweet and cute
The red shirt is clearly next generation command, considering the four pips and all.
Yay for a nice cup cake cake any day! :D
Wait, that's a Captain's shirt with Spock's vulcan greeting? Cute but so wrong!
no daisies?
I definitely squeeled a little when I saw the star trek one. :) It made my bad morning very happy. :D
Enible lace, here is how ots made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdY7GrRq5g8&list=LLdXYcxZ_AsW1Zq6CMwGr6cA&index=16&feature=plpp_video
That's a next generation shirt! All the cool kids are wearing red~ Picard, Riker, Wesley, Various Corrupt Admirals....Q.....
Hilarious caption for the Companion Cube! The fact that there are Portal-based cakes in general is a huge win.
I want that lace cake NOW! Gimmegimmegimmegimmegimme!!!
Erm, please? *puppydog eyes*
I would also accept the technicolor cake or any or the geek cakes, but that lace cake just calls to the Victorian half of my soul . . . :)
Happy V-day, everybody! <3
That Star Trek cake is excellent. But I coudn't eat it without thinking of that dream episode where Worf was eating that cake with Deanna Troi's head on it.
Want! Trouble is, which one?? LOVE the rainbow heart, but .... Snoopy! And Trek!!! Gawrsh! I just dunno; maybe I'll just tell the DH to get me one of each?
Y'know the problem with these cakes? They make the wrecks look even wreckier than they were to begin with.
"And from now on I've giving every box lid a test nibble,"
oops
I want that reainbow heart cake sooooo bad.
I'm so glad there are photos of how it was made on the site it came from!
The problem with comparing your sweet hart to a companion cube is that you are implying that eventually you are going to toss them into a pit of flames to open a door.
that first one is the very BEST animal print cake I've ever seen- and so elegant. (double sigh)
it rates a double sigh as it's Valentine's week. :D
Okay, the adorable little robots made me squee out loud... Sooooo cute! You made my day. :)
Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking? I'm imagining the weekday versions of these cakes...
All these cakes are excellent! Love the rainbow heart one. Bakingdom is a wonderful site. Thanks for sharing!
Was that a 'while you were sleeping' reference there at the top?! I hope so, it's my favorite rom-com of all time.
Great sweets, I got some inspiration for the cake I'll be making this Tuesday
I think that rainbow heart cake just might be one of the coolest things I have ever seen. :)
Squeeing my way down the blog post. Look, look, look! How preeetttyy! Simply sublime to just jaw-dropping. The cupcake cake! The Snoopy! The balloon and sugar hearts and rainbow hearts and robot cookies and...and... Oh, my geek heart just quietly sighed over the Star Trek cake.
Happy Valentine's Day to me (and you). Happy Valentine's Day to you (and me). Happy Valentine's... Happy Valentine's... Haaapppy Valentine's too-oooo meeee (and you).
Love the weighted companion cubes.
The cake was never a lie, anyway, right? Sure, the mysterious person who came before never saw it, but we did.
You had me at the Star Trek cake. And the companion cube. *melt* May your Valentines be Geeky and sweet (but not too sweet, 'cause cavities).
You have to remember that by the time ST:TNG came around, red was the color for command, and gold was the color for security, so it was the gold shirts who were always running the risk of getting phasered. Like Tasha Yar . . .
Holy. Cow.
Not sure which one makes me swoon the most -- that utterly understated single red balloon (where are the other 98?) or the perfectly ombrée sugar hearts.
Wow.
The box-of-chocolates and the lace just officially blew my mind. Wow. Wow. WOW.
I love the Portal one! :)
"And that's no lie."
Haha! Companion cube <3
My Princess daughter saw today's Sunday Sweets and has declared that she does not want a Disney Princess party for the third year, but instead she wants a Star Trek party, and she wants me to make the featured Star Trek cake. She has been watching Season 1 on Star Trek TNG this fall (one episode a week). Thank you!
My love for the last cake isn't a lie, either. Portal reference FTW.
DPL beat me to the Deana Troi cake reference. It was a cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting.
Omigosh I love those cakes! Especially the one with the balloon. It reminds me of the time I was at a party in Rome, New York (insert love symbol here, I don't know how to make one. Plus, that was when I first read your first book and found out about the world of cake wrecks, \m/(>.<)\m/), and I released a balloon into the sky and watched it dissapear, even though I knew at some point the balloon would pop on it's own or get stuck in a plane engine and jam the thing, causing the plane to crash... That sort of dampend the moment, didn't it? ):' Any way, I wish that, on valentines day, everyone would let go of a balloon made of sugar that looked like the one on that cake. And that the balloons would be able to fly and never pop. I also wish there was world peace. Peace. Peace is good. (Why are you looking at me like that? Gah!)
I gasped when I saw the single balloon cake. Absolute perfection.
does anyone know how that rainbow cake was done? I'd love to try to recreate it but can't, for the life of me, figure out how that was done.
Can't say I like the "technicolor" cakes...blech....
COMPANION CUUUUUBE! D'awww... soo cuuute.
I wish I could pick a favorite! I think the cupcake. No, wait, the heart balloon. No, maybe the multicolored hearts...
Thanks for the link for EDIBLE LACE - if anything could entice me to want to make anything the kitchen, this might be it.
Wow those are all stunners!! My goodness ... mouth watering ... more like drooling ...
I disagree with the zebra stripes, but then, I am not into animal themes. And the red/black/white thing doesn't do well for me.
I will gape in awe at the EDIBLE lace. What the heck is that stuff made from?
And, cute red shirt. Well, if you're going to eat a Trekkie cake, it had to be a red cake. With red velvet...
And those candy hearts? Heavens...wow.
Red Shirt thing is only for the original. Red in TNG is a good thing.
Some of them are WRECKS!!!!
The companion cube was my favorite! Well played, well played, indeed!
Love, love, LOVE them ALL! Especially love Snoopy, the ombre hearts, the single red heart, the cherry cupcake...ALL of them!
Winners!
HVD, everyone!
@Jaeda: The rainbow cake looks like a variation on the technique described here:
http://amerrierworld.com/2009/06/22/rainbow-cake-and-unicorns/
Edible lace? Ok who's winding me up here?'Cos someone's gotta be kidding me! That lace is just so gorgeously perfect that I want it on my wedding dress....(now there's a thought, walk down the aisle, nibble dress...sounds perfect) -ahem- honestly, it the the most beautiful, lush thing I have ever seen in my life...I want, I want, I WANT! xx
It doesn't matter whether it's ST : TOS or ST : TNG. "Live Long and Prosper" along with a red shirt still strikes me as an oxymoron. How can that love not be doomed?
Did anyone else see that Snoopy changed his name to Snoppy? LOL. A great way to cheer up a bed ridden gal!
Had to try out the ombre sugar right away! I'm in love with the technique. I plan on making this for several upcoming holidays in various colors and shapes. First up, polka dot pink cupcakes for valentines!
I noticed the "Snoppy" error as well, but I thought maybe my wreck filled eyes were just playing tricks on me.
Cool round up - Naomi's cake is perfection and I have adored those Robot cookies since the first time I ever saw them. Love the star trek cake......it would make a perfect "Engage" ment cake.