Sunday Sweets: More Potter!
July 19, 2009 Once a week here on Cake Wrecks we post the best of the best of the best cakes out there. And most of the time, the comments go a little something like this:
"Oooooohh pretty!"
Last week, however, sparked a debate rarely seen in these parts, and instead of comments we got seven page dissertations on popular 20th century children's literature and its effect on modern culture and resulting religious, racial and socioeconomic implications. And guess who had to moderate all those comments? That's right: me.
Every.
Last.
Word.
So this week, we're going to look at some more Potter sweets, but we're gonna do it a bit differently. This week we're gonna look at the pretty pictures, and when we're done, we're gonna do our comments Twitter style, meaning 140 letters or less. Capisce? Everybody with me? Okay then. Here goes.
(Made by Springlakecakes)
(Made by Deanna's Aunt Despina and found here)As always, if you'd like to nominate a Sweet you can send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.
- Similar Sweets: Harry Potter
Reader Comments (229)
I agree that the mandrake cake is super-creative!!
I'm not a huge fan of the Hedwigs on either cake... I think penguin-y proportions are right!
Awesome!
Opinions are like peoples' rears, and I am sorry you had to view so many last week!
Cheers!
Awesome! Yummy! Ooooh Pretty! (61 characters including this.)
Love the cakes, especially the snitch. Oooo Shiny! Is that edible gold? Love HP and Cakewrecks rocks. Mary C.
All are fab. I threw a Harry Potter themed party for my nephew and we had a golden snitch cake. Which we couldn't eat because he wanted to keep it ;)
I love the stack of books cake! It's so elegant and pretty. I want it!!
Megan
www.adventuresofacarnivore.com
"...literature and it's effect.."
As long as we're talking about literature: It should be 'its effect'...
I have to disagree about the pot, too. Just feeling argumentative today I guess. :)
Some people ruin it for all of us!! You should just delete the ones who make such comments and save yourself some time!
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I agree w/ the other Robyn (cool name, btw). Over a certain length, delete it. This is why I rarely read comments--don't have time.
Oooh, Pretty!
I love, Love, LOVE the mandrake cake! Brilliant!
Beautiful! Love the mandrake cake! And re: anti-HP folks...haters to the left!
Ooooh pretty!
Ok, now that the mandatory phrase has been written, I do have to add that although the Monster Book is well executed, the idea of eating something that seems to have tarentula genes is very gross to me.
Very very cool. Going to re-read the first one now.
As many others have said, I LOVE the mandrake cake!
The rest are okay, but not as cool as the mandrake.
Of all the HP things you can chose from and someone thought a Mandrake cake would reflect it more? weird! It is awesome though, kudos to the cake maker.
What fabulously magical cakes. Love them all. My favorite would have to be the mandrake cake though. :D
I think Hedwig looks a little more wreckish here than you give her credit for. She just looks worried. Maybe it's because she knows she won't make it through the next movie?
Linz
That's awesome!
They're beautiful! I ADORE the Mandrake one.
Very cool! I love them all!
they're all great.. but i dont like the last one, Hedwig looks like someones smacked her in the face with a baseball bat!
Thanks for sharing the pretties. I would have just deleted the anti-Potter posts-whose blog is this anyway-yours or theirs?
sue
If you go to the flickr link for the mandrake cake, it says the pot is terracotta, so sadly, not cake.
Love them all though. ooohhh, prettyyy!
I love the snitch cake. It's so simpe and elegant but at the same time impressive.
These are so awesome! I just can't pick a favorite this week.
They are pretty cakes, I'll give you that. A lot of craftsmanship involved, etc.
But enough with the Harry Potter cakes already. I actually didn't comment on the last batch, hoping they'd go away. I think HP is just meh... devoting two precious Sunday Sweets editions to him is really, really overdoing it.
The Mandrake is my very favorite.
I love the cakes, and I love that you spelled "capisce" correctly.
Not a Potter fan, never read, seen, etc. but the cakes are pretty darn cool.
Anonymous - Have to say that the Discworld cakes are AMAZING, that first in particular. Big TP fan here :)
The cakes are brilliant! Love the mandrake cake, I've never seen one before. :)
John started it by talking about kids and reading, rather than cakes!! Is the light up cake really really cake? Or just the base?
To quote Ron Weasley: "Whoa!" But in total nerd/fangirlish-ness the Mandrake cake takes it (even if they are creepy little offspring of banshees).
Does Bernard's cake say "He whose name no-one can remember"? I wonder what it says around the rest of the cake. Very sweet cakes.
Last week's HP cakes were good but these are AMAZING! The mandrake cake is...amazing. (Haha, amazing just fits this post!)
Ooooooooooooh! Pretty! Pretty!
Love the cakes as always. Went to last week's post to see the big ado. WOW! Lots there. I LOVED the Sound-of-Music/1812/chocolate/rose post! Rather than ban books, let's read them TOGETHER and then DISCUSS them. This helps teach your children to think for themselves. Remember, Thomas Jefferson pointed out that a democracy will survive only with a well-educated populace. -WM
"Aaaaaahh pretty!"
See, I'm original.
oooooooh pretty!
Those cakes are amazing!! I love them all!
They are all lovely - hard to pick a favorite. The lighted cake is simply awesome, but I think my favorite is the Monster Book. Or maybe the Sorting Hat. Or, maybe...No, I know! It's...hmm.
ooooh, pretty!
Offended.
HP = Witchcraft.
Mandrake = spells = witchcraft = antireligion.
Cakes = sugar = slavery = black people = racist.
JKR = non-US person = probably Muslim/terrorist.
Deeply offended
The mandrake pot is very realistic terra cotta looking. Bravo if it's actually cake as well!
Oooooooh Pretty. :o)
Oh PS can we talk about how cool the name Bernard is (with the UK pronunciation)? I wish it was my name...
Cute! Love all the chubby owls
No one else is counting their letters :(
VERY pretty! (Also, at least one looked like it was made at home. Good job, home baker!!)
Wow, a Hogwarts cake even better than last week's -- didn't think it was possible!
To all those who disagreed with posting the HP comments last week: I think the fun of a good blog is that sometimes the topics spark debate. I do feel sorry for Jen and John because they must moderate them all, but that's the price of a really cool blog. The cakes ARE awesome (or horrible) but when you post your opinion, it just follows that some will disagree. And most of the comments were respectfully worded, and led to an interesting debate. JMHO.
Those cakes are unbelievably beautiful. Like, museum-quality pieces. Much better than my own attempt at a MBOM cake: http://tinyurl.com/n2wngp
WOW, those cakes were amazing! I could never choose a favorite, because I love everyone of them! Now I need to go finish book 6 before I go to the movie!
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Ah Sunday Sweets indeed! These are fantastic in the true sense of the word.
P.S. John - as an ex-children's bookseller, I feel your pain.