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
Until next time.