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Monday, September 29th, 2008

Ahh, the humble web-comic. Although some are geekier than others, anyone who spends any significant amount of time online has a favourite one.

According to Wikipeda, the medium has only been around since the late 1980’s. I’m not so sure about that, but I do know that one of the most fondly regarded web-comics currently in existence is (probably) xkcd.

It’s uber geek (and proud of it), and mixes biting sarcasm with multi layered humour about high level maths, academia, physics, all thinks geek, and the authors musings on life, love and what it is to be human.

As you may have gathered I’m a little bit of a fan.

So I was delighted when I stumbled across a gorgeously iced xkcd cake which recreated an entire comic, over at the Google-centric blog Googlified.

Unfortunately this is the biggest picture I can find. Original comic link here:

[If you have any more info, about the creation of this iced gem, please do drop me an email at my gmail address]

That’s it for tonight. See you Wednesday !

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Come to the Darkside, we have CAKE! Darth Vader Geekcake!

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

I have featured Star Wars Geekcake creations before. Star Wars themed cakes and Dr Who themed cakes are probably the most popular geekcake creations.

The ultimate villain of the Star Wars universe is Darth Vader. The original Trilogy made his ultimate evil very clear. The ‘Prequel trilogies’ muddied the moral waters a little – Darth Vader as sympathetic character doesn’t work for me but I admit it is utterly subjective. Your mileage may vary.

What I do know for sure is that I can’t find any Anakin Skywalker cakes, but I can find Darth Vader cakes aplenty!

So here, are four of the best Vader cakes I have found to date.

Over at carolynssweettooth site, is this marvellous piped icing rendition of Vader. Unfortunately I don’t have any creation details.
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Original source here.

Discovered on Flickr, Jen of Jen’s Creations shared her black and red icing version of Vader.

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Unfortunately I do not have any creation details for this one either, but it sure looks tasty to me!

An entirely different Jen over at Layersoflove.com, created this buttercream tribute to Lord Vader:

layersoflove_Vader_geekcake

And finally (again over at Flickr) we have Vader atop a flaming platform of icing:
Flickr_JaneBK_Vader_geekcake

Jane BK describes a little bit behind the creation of the fiery set piece:
Chocolate buttermilk cake with chocolate SMBC filling and covered in fondant. Darth is just regular fondant/gum-tex modeling paste.

See you Monday!

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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)’

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”

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. ”

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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Do you know what this is? This is a dinosaur egg. The dinosaurs are breeding. Jurrasic Park geekcake.

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I recently received an email from a very talented baker called Polly Hawcroft (aka PJ) who lives in London.

She sent me pictures of three of her current creations, two of which I shall share with you today.

Polly’s mere description of the first cake makes me hungry..:

The Jurassic Park logo cake was something I made for a JP themed party I had to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the film’s release in 2003 (can you tell I dig dinosaurs?). I christened it ‘The Chaos Theory Cake’ because it was a choc fudge cake, with buttercream in the centre which was also jam packed with all sorts of random jelly sweets and pick and mix. Then the whole thing was covered with ganache and then I made the fondant logo for the top, it was a bit wide and had to be supported by cocktail sticks! But, it was most delicious.

Hmmmm. Buttercream plus chocolate equals double tasty !

But, not to stop at one magnificant creation, Polly then went on to also recreate the Jurrasic park jeep:

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In her email, Polly very helpfully outlined the creation of the Jeep:

The Jurassic Park Jeep was a basic choc sponge covered in fondant with decals that I printed onto rice paper using my inkjet…yup I was amazed it worked too though I’m not sure they were strictly edible they looked good! It wasn’t the tastiest sponge I ever made but it looked damn spectacular.

Damn spectacular indeed! Those Liquorice wheels look good enough to out-run a confectionery T-Rex to me!

See you Wednesday, where I shall be showcasing another of Polly’s creations !

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Apologies and technical difficulties… missing posts last week

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Dear reader I apologise.

Last week Wednesday and Friday, where there should have been geekcake posts, there were none.

I trusted that Bloggers ’schedule’ post ability would work as described.

That’ll teach me.

Still I believe I’ve fixed the issue now, and tonight’s post *should* come off without a hitch.

Monday’s post to follow in mere minutes….

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MORTAL COMBAT!!?!

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Another Quick one tonight folks….

Test Your Might!

Flickr_Mortal_Kombat_Geekcake

What a great ten year old Birthday cake !Found over at Flickr on the account of A-Treat
See you Wednesday!

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iPod Geekcakes.

Friday, September 12th, 2008

At mere seven years old, the iPod is the most well know portable branded MP3 player on the market.

This time line of the product evolution makes interesting viewing. Just to put it into some perspective, Google celebrated its’ ten year old birthday this year.

I am not sure if it’s the iconic silhouette adds, or the introduction of video playback , or their seamless photograph display, or just the Apple aesthetic, that makes it market leader..,

What I do know is that many an Apple/iPod loving geek chooses the familiar design to turn into geekcakes.

Enjoy!

Over at the Ambermac’s blog, are full instructions on how to make this quick beauty (complete with Britney playlist):

I found this shuffle over at The tech blog Gizmondo:

iPod_Shuffle_Geekcake

This one was created by the Pastry Chef Anne Heap over at The Pink Cakebox:

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Every part is edible, even the earphones.

Finally this amazingly detailed iPod Touch can be found over on icruise’s Flickr pages
(even thought the icons make it look more like an iPhone to me )

Flickr_iPod_Touch_Geekcake

Thats all for this week. See you Monday .

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Apologies no post tonight. However, on Friday…,

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

iPod cakes

See ya Friday

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Motherboard Geekcakes

Monday, September 8th, 2008

The humble motherboard. Backbone of all computing devices everywhere, from the humble calculator to Nasa vehicles.

The (compact) motherboard as we know it today, only became possible during the late 80’s. Only then, did it became possible (and economical) to fit the necessary microprocessors all onto the same flat architecture.

Wikipedia describes it thus:

The motherboard is the central or primary printed circuit board (PCB) making up a complex electronic system, such as a modern computer. It is also known as a mainboard, baseboard, system board, planar board, or, on Apple computers, a logic board, and is sometimes abbreviated casually as mobo.

Chorltan sent a picture to the TG Daily tech blog, of the cake that his wife made him for his birthday.

“My wife very cheekily baked me a motherboard cake for my birthday (sad, but true).

Sad? Methinks not! True geeklove I say

Over at the Craftster forum, a member called ‘letuescarpe’ explained how she made her own motherboard birthday cake for her boyfriend:

This is kind of a cartoon representation of a motherboard. I wandered the candy aisles of the grocery store and CVS [US grocery chain] picking up different items to use. I got some wafer cookies for the RAM slots, an After 5 mint for the Intel chip… Rolos turned out to be especially useful.