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
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
1If you are reading in the UK the 2009 Christmas Special (part 1 of 2) will be aired 6pm BBC One Christmas day
Tanks are industrious robust pieces of machinery as any military geek will tell you – at great length. The granddady of the modern tank (as we know it today) was the armoured car, first widely used during World War One. The first armoured cars with mounted guns were developed by the Austrians during the Italo-Turkish war of the early 1900’s.
But enough history, you came here for cake right? Well allow me to present the ingeniously designed moving tank cake.
This wonderful creation is featured (with full instructions) over at Instructables.com. The baking engineer is one Dave Spencer.
Tank Cake
The inside of the cake has a welded metal foundation, and apart from the interior tubing and the wooden base) it’s all edible.
Tank Cake Metal tubing
I shall let Dave explain:
“I made 4 cakes for this. One cake was baked in a pot the same diameter as the turret pan. A little bit of carving and I had my turret shape and clearance for the barrel and mechanism.
The other cakes were baked in a 9 x 11 inch pan. Once cooled the rounded tops were sliced off. These tops were used for the ground. The main parts of the cake were carved to fit around the mechanism and stacked to create the rough tank shape. All pieces were “glued” together with icing. “
A bit of carving with a sharp knife and it was starting to look like a tank.
Tank Cake Front View
I highly recommend Dave Spencers own blog Mechanical Mashup for some interesting geek video projects
Hello all. Apologies for my posting absence. The blogger site was eaten b seas of spam comments, and I wanted to move to a hosted domain and.. [ bladdity blah] excuses.
I am truly sorry and will not falter again in my quest to bring you fascinating, amusing, and sometimes weird geek cakes of all descriptions. I pledge to give you all one cake per week for as long as I can. I pledge to always find as much info as I can about said cakes. I pledge to stop making pledges.
