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Gingerbread TARDIS!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Aaaaaaaah Christmas. A time for reflection, thanks, good food, family gatherings and most importantly of all – the traditional DR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.1

So here for your delight is a gingerbread TARDIS in all it’s shiny glory:

Gingerbread TARDIS

Gingerbread TARDIS

Created by Annamaria42 over at Flickr.com. the entirecreation is made from just gingerbread and icing sugar.

happy christmas everyone. I shall be posting a few more cakes before the 25th December (09), I am just not sure when :D

1If you are reading in the UK the 2009 Christmas Special (part 1 of 2) will be aired 6pm BBC One Christmas day :)

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Gingerbread Chevrons? Stargate geekcake!

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Spanning 10 seasons, from 1997 until 2007, and with a total of 213 episodes, AND three spinoff series, (Atlantis, Infinity, and Universe) AND  three direct to DVD features, it’s difficult to argue against the success of the Stargate meta-verse. A certain generation of fans, may always associate  Richard Dean Anderson with MacGyverr, but his turn as Jack O’Neill, might just eclipse that.

Being a huge Stargate and RDA fan, the talented Polly Hawthorn (whom you might remember from Monday’s post) decided to recreate the SG:1 team .. in gingerbread!  Polly calls her creation: ‘The Starcake and SG:1(Special Gingerbread 1)’ 

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The base of each character is a gingerbread cookie, painted with icing of various colours and combined with a “few bits of fondant for the decorations on the uniforms and faces”


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Polly explains how the actual Stargate section was created: ” ..,  was constructed like a cookie, I baked two halves then glued it together with icing and cut out small pieces for the gate chevrons then I used orange jelly icing left over from a dalek cookie kit and some gummy sweets cut to fit for the orange crystals. The centre of the Starcake is tinfoil over a circle of card. ”


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Doesn’t it look HUGE? I wonder how tall that stargate was…?
That’s all for tonight folks, see you Friday!

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Slayer geekcake!

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Aaaah, Buffy*. Is there a geek out there who doesn’t know of your vampire slaying influence on popular entertainment?

Originally airing from 1997 until 2003, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series seems to be Marmite TV for geeks. People either seem to love it or hate it, but everyone is aware of it.

Up until a few days ago, I had not seen even one Buffy geekcake in all my image searching, and then the Flickr group Special Day Cakes produced this crafted piece:

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Check out the Flickr link above for a nice gallery of (mostly non geek) cake, but one lovely Tardis

*If you don’t know what the TV series was all about, this link should help, and here is the Wikipedia entry.

That’s all for today folks. See you Monday, when I have some exceptional cookie treats to share with you ..

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