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Showing posts with label cake design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake design. Show all posts

1 Cup Sugar, 2 Cups Talent. Bake To Perfection. The Threadcakes Contest.



above top: Darkside of The Garden T-shirt at Threadless; bottom: A cake baked on the design

Everyone likes t-shirts. And cake. So what a great idea it was for Chris Cardinal to start Threadcakes in 2007, an online cake competition in conjunction with the user generated design t-shirt site, Threadless.com.

The contest turns art into edible art. The premise is straightforward, interpret (not replicate, per se) the image on any of the PRINTED t-shirts at Threadless into an actual baked and edible cake.

No contest was run in 2008, but they've brought it back with a vengeance this year. The contest began on June 15th and runs through August 3rd. It's not too late to enter. You can read more about the competition and the rules here.

The contest has two categories, 2D and 3D and there are already many drool-worthy entries into each. The contest runs for a few more weeks, so you cake bakers still have plenty of time to give it a try.

There are already so many incredible and impressive cakes entered, it was very hard to narrow it down to just a few to inspire you (or to light a flambé under your butt). But here are some incredible entries side by side with the t-shirt art that inspired the cakes.

T-shirt Art on the left, Cakes on the right:

above: Children Under The Bed (3D) by Jessi Wilbanks

above: Catburger (3D) by Jessica Dell

above: A Banana Slipping on a Banana Peel (3D) by burton wills

above: Beauty before Death (3D) by Monique Presley

above: The Apple (3D) by Judy Steiner

above: Water, Just Water (3D) by Catherine Hofler

above: She Doesnt Even Realize (3D) by Nicole Jeans

above: True Love Will Find You In The End (2D) by Katie Eickhoff

above: Long Journey (3D) by Midori Sickel

above: Invasion (2D) by Amanda Noll


To learn more or to view all the entries thus far, go here.

Visit Threadless T-shirts here.

The Hippest Gingerbread Houses Ever! April Reed's Farnsworth House & More



This gingerbread version of Farnsworth House — Mies van der Rohe’s modern masterpiece in Plano, Ill. — is a (deep-pocketed) design lover’s dream. It took the elves at April Reed Cake Design several days of photo research and about 25 hours to construct the fondant-covered walls, poured-sugar ‘‘glass’’ windows and sugar-paste I-beams and staircases.

Design That Takes The Cake:
Meet Cakegirls of Chicago



If you're lucky enough to live in Chicago you have access to one of the most imaginative and talented cake makers (bakers?) around. Cakegirls are sisters Mary and Brenda Maher. Originally from Detroit, now located in Chicago, they create edible art for everything from Brides to Babies. Boys to Business.


Above: the girls behind the cakes; talented sisters Mary & Brenda Maher

Unfortunately, they don't ship their cakes. Yet. But I'm hoping they do sometime soon! Take a look at the some of their "hard-to-believe-they're-edible" creations!

Click on all the cake images to enlarge for details

Holiday cakes:



Stunning Wedding Cakes, of course:





Hip Tech cakes:




Adorable Kid's cakes:




Cakes for the Bride to be:




Their Signature Purse cakes:


Baby Cakes For the Mommy to be:




Cakes fit for a King:





Just Fabulous cakes:



Not only delicious looking, but from the sound of their menu, delicious tasting. Click on the image below to enlarge:



Where are they?

See their site here.

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