Tag: CAKE

Thanks in part to some popular reality-TV shows, the boutique cake business has really taken off in recent years. Growing up, we were lucky to get a birthday cake with a few plastic soldiers or athletes standing in the thick frosting. But these days, people build edible replicas of everything from Hogwarts Castle to an old-school NES console. So what would be the perfect confectionery ...

If you're a fan of the Food Network, chances are you've seen one of the cable channel's many cake-related shows that air daily, from the crazy cake challenges to the one and only 'Ace of Cakes.' Now imagine if all of those cake makers were actually 'Star Trek,' 'Metroid,' and 'Dungeons & Dragons' fanatics. Just take a moment to picture what kind of cakes they would make in their free time.... ...

Imagine this -- you walk into a custom confectionery and inform the design team that you want the image on a USB flash drive made onto a very special cake. In fact, you even leave the flash drive with them so they can really look it over. Sure, you'd think they would get to frost-brushing that unicorn flying through a rainbow right onto the cake, but apparently the artists in question had other ...

Cell phones are now legal in most places -- even North Korea, where, until recently, owning one was a crime punishable by death. But despite certain celebrities acting otherwise, cellys are still illegal in jails, where criminals are resorting to some interesting techniques to smuggle them in -- such as baking them into cakes, as a chaplain unwittingly found out in Dublin, Ireland. The chaplain ...

Shockingly enough, the image you see above isn't as radical as you probably think. Just last year we saw a San Francisco couple profess their inexplicable love for TiVo with a his and her cake arrangement, while another treated guests to a flavorful version of their wedding day playlist. This perky pair, however, decided to create cakes that would visually describe just how they ended up ...