Sunday Sweets: Dreaming of Dragon*Con
September 12, 2010 As you know, John and I were at the ultimate geek gathering, Dragon*Con, last weekend.
[wistful sigh]
Ah, how I miss my people.
Fortunately, I have this week's awesome Sweets line-up to help heal the hurt.
Beware the Cthulhu, a monstrous creature of gargantuan size which evokes terror in all it encounters!!
He also likes ice cream.Made by Rebecca H, another hobby baker, and based on the artwork "Cthulu's Day Out" by Ursulav.
You score 10 geek points if you can correctly identify this next cake:
Yes?
Here's a close up of the top:
Yep, these are my people, I tell ya.
So, imagine my glee when I saw this:
By PastrygirlAwww yeeeeah.
By Don Buciak[Update: I'm told this is "Saber from Fate Stay Night." Here's hoping that means something to somebody out there. :)]
And finally, a fitting homage to Dragon*Con:
Detail shot:
And that's it! Thanks very much to all of you lovely readers who found us and said hello last weekend; it was a blast meeting you! I can't wait to do it all over again next year.
Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.
Reader Comments (144)
Do I get extra credit if I can name the turtle and all four elephants? :D
Ahhhhh, Discworld Cake! I want to get married all over again so that can be my wedding cake.
Yes! Atari. I loved Pitfall on that.
The Chibi is "Saber" from the anime Fate/Stay Night.
She's also known as King Arthur.. which led to my roommate's battlecry of "WHY IS KING ARTHUR A WOMAN?!"
OMG! I want that Discworld cake for MY wedding!
That chibi cake is of Saber, one of the heroic spirits summoned to fight the Holy Grail War in Fate/Stay Night. FSN was originally a visual novel, but the first route has been adapted into a TV anime series (and I guess the second route is getting a movie now), plus there's a fighting game and I think an RPG now as well.
The girl on Don Busiak's cake is Saber, from the video game and anime Fate|Stay Night.
Completely geeked out over the Discworld cake and recognized it immediately!
The character I believe is Saber from the anime Fate Stay Night
I've never before felt so non-nerdy. yeeessss
That chibbi is saber from Fate stay/night
The chibi character is actually Saber from Fate Stay Night. I love Dragoncon! I was there this past year too, in costume, and plan to attend next year as well.
Discworld!!! That one made me SO happy! It almost makes me wish I was geeky enough to have a Terry Pratchett wedding cake.
That is chibi Saber from computer game turned anime Fate/Stay Night. :)
the chibi is Saber from Fate/stay night. ^^ and extremely adorable.
What a great A'Tuin!
I believe the chibi character is Saber, from the anime Fate/Stay Night. It's beautifully done!
I believe the chibi character is Saber, from the anime Fate/Stay Night. It's beautifully done!
Don Buciak's cake is Saber from the visual novel and anime series Fate/Stay Night: http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wallpapers/comments/item93554/ Nice cake, too.
The chibi character is Saber from the video game/visual novel/anime Fate/Stay Night.
Oh, and the Disc World cake is awesome.
As soon as I saw the turtle I knew!
So awesome.
(An aside...I saw one of those white oval stickers on a car that said UU and I thought, I want an Unseen University sticker for MY car! I got closer and realized it was for the Unitarian Universalist church. Though I totally think Unitarians would enjoy the double entendre.)
i <3 that dragon!!!
The chibi character is one called Sabre. I don;t know what she is from but she shows up all the time on dannychoo.com.
http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/20751/Nendoroid+Saber+Lily.html
The chibi cake is of the character Saber from Fate/Stay Night. I enjoy being a geek ^_^
Very nice and geek-y!
When I first saw the turtle cake, all I could think of was Stephen King's "It" and the "Dark Tower" series which also has a turtle of enormous girth and upon his shell he holds the earth...
Cool cakes! AND to answer your question...I not only "remember" Atari, we still have the original system that I grew up with in the early 80's. We still have all the game cartridges and we still play!
The character you don't recognize is Saber from the anime Fate Stay Night.
very sweet.
I LOVE that Discworld cake! Such detail! Such Discworld-y geographic accuracy! A'Tuin, the elephants, the sun and the moon and the water falling off the edge...even the Counterweight continent. My geeky little heart is bursting with delight! =D
I love the geekness!
The chibi is Saber from Fate Stay Night if i'm not mistaken.
And these are all mind blowing amazing. :)
The Discworld was a wedding cake? OMG! I so want that one as my wedding cake! - Becky
Ohhh, how I wish that Discworld cake were mine! I'm a huuuuge fan of Terry Pratchett; in fact, I have a top-down view of the Discworld tattooed on my back :)
All of today's cakes are awesome, but that one just... takes the cake (sorry).
The anime character is Saber from fate/stay night. cute!! ^_^
DISCWORLDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3
The Chibi girl is from the tv show Fate; Stay Night :)
Terry Pratchett´s Disk world novels!!! Yeah! I want my ten geek points!
Ooh! The cute anime girl is Saber from Fate Stay Night! X3
The unknown chibi girl is actually Saber, from the series Fate/Stay Night.
Amber
Discworld squee! Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. I particularly like the Moist Von Lipwig books. Those cakes are all great.
That Smaug cake is amazing! It even has Bilbo stealing that cup. :)
They're all great, but oh my,the dragon is awesome!
The chibi-girl is Saber from the anime Fate/Stay Night. One of my favorites!
And I love Discworld. Terry Pratchett is hilarious.
A Discworld cake?! Oh my!(want)
beautiful
This has nothing to do with today's awesome cakes, but Awful Library Books is showing a book on sandwich cakes/loaves. Just thought you should know.
OMG Meaghan, I was also thinking Dark Tower. My favorite books and comics! Oh well maybe I can find an actual dark tower cake out there.
A'Tuin!!! :-) And oh my god I want that dragon...
I love geeky cake days!!!
You should start collecting WoW themed cakes for the Cataclysm release in a few months <3
An Atari cake. Sweeeeeet.