Let them be cake
November 5, 2018 2:19 AM Subscribe
What, no Deanna Troi?
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 3:32 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 3:32 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
There’s a lot of fondan’t there.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:53 AM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:53 AM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
Nope. NOPE. Uncanny cake valley.
(Also, I kind of don't really get the stunt cake-baking thing. I like a pretty cake, don't get me wrong, but cake is for eating. As soon as you start doing stuff with it that makes the eating of it less pleasurable--fondant, I am looking at you--I'm done. My kid likes to watch fancy cake baking on YouTube and the hosts are constantly like "well, this doesn't taste that great, but it works to create a perfect facsimile of an iPad, so we're going to use that." It strikes me that if you want to be a sculptor, there are better materials to use.)
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:53 AM on November 5, 2018 [6 favorites]
(Also, I kind of don't really get the stunt cake-baking thing. I like a pretty cake, don't get me wrong, but cake is for eating. As soon as you start doing stuff with it that makes the eating of it less pleasurable--fondant, I am looking at you--I'm done. My kid likes to watch fancy cake baking on YouTube and the hosts are constantly like "well, this doesn't taste that great, but it works to create a perfect facsimile of an iPad, so we're going to use that." It strikes me that if you want to be a sculptor, there are better materials to use.)
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:53 AM on November 5, 2018 [6 favorites]
Other titles I toyed with: 'The uncakey valley', 'The Queen of tarts' and 'Bake Off with their heads'
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:17 AM on November 5, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:17 AM on November 5, 2018 [3 favorites]
Just fondon't.
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:19 AM on November 5, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:19 AM on November 5, 2018 [3 favorites]
the puns in the captions at that link are absolutely terrible
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:24 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:24 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
I don't understand this fondant craze either. It's technically edible i guess, but that does not make it cake for me if it tastes like fondant. Cake and baking is always connected to the enjoyment you get when eating. These are "just" edible sculptures. Still impressive sculptures but too far removed from baking for me.
That Elvis is disturbing...
posted by Megustalations at 6:40 AM on November 5, 2018
That Elvis is disturbing...
posted by Megustalations at 6:40 AM on November 5, 2018
If your art form is baking hyper-realistic sculptures (or wedding cakes) then fondant is the only way to achieve your goal. It is stiff and doesn't melt, two attributes that the far tastier buttercream does not share. At our wedding we had a "no fondant" rule for taste reasons and while our cake was bonkers delicious it also sort of ended up looking like a child's drawing of a cake after being delivered and then moved.
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:44 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:44 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
I laughed at "return to blender" and then totally lost it at "pyrex of the carob bean"
posted by corvine at 6:47 AM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by corvine at 6:47 AM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
then fondant is the only way to achieve your goal
If the construction is anything like Cake Boss and their ilk, then you’ll also need mountains of Rice Krispy treats and maybe a couple of dowel rods.
posted by rh at 6:53 AM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
If the construction is anything like Cake Boss and their ilk, then you’ll also need mountains of Rice Krispy treats and maybe a couple of dowel rods.
posted by rh at 6:53 AM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
The choice of "that scene from War Horse where the horse is tangled in barbed wire" was unusual, to say the least.
At our wedding we had a "no fondant" rule for taste reasons and while our cake was bonkers delicious it also sort of ended up looking like a child's drawing of a cake after being delivered and then moved.
I feel like my wedding's cakes were just about right; basketweave pattern in buttercream, each tier on its own pedestal, different flavors for each one, and a few tiny fresh flowers on top. If I were getting remarried I'd probably do something similar.
posted by emjaybee at 7:07 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
At our wedding we had a "no fondant" rule for taste reasons and while our cake was bonkers delicious it also sort of ended up looking like a child's drawing of a cake after being delivered and then moved.
I feel like my wedding's cakes were just about right; basketweave pattern in buttercream, each tier on its own pedestal, different flavors for each one, and a few tiny fresh flowers on top. If I were getting remarried I'd probably do something similar.
posted by emjaybee at 7:07 AM on November 5, 2018 [2 favorites]
There’s a lot of fondan’t there.
No kidding. The one with the horse sitting in a pile of manure? So much nope.
The dog eating the cake was cute though.
posted by fuse theorem at 9:03 AM on November 5, 2018
No kidding. The one with the horse sitting in a pile of manure? So much nope.
The dog eating the cake was cute though.
posted by fuse theorem at 9:03 AM on November 5, 2018
Thanks, I hate it!
posted by Saminal at 2:00 PM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Saminal at 2:00 PM on November 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
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