<![CDATA[Gizmodo: cakes]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: cakes]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/cakes http://gizmodo.com/tag/cakes <![CDATA[Photos of Next Gen iPhone 3G C(ake) Leaked!]]> I thought I was ahead of things with my Chocolate Edition Apple Tablet, but Jerry Brito and his iPhone 3G C(ake) beat everything. It looks like the real thing, except for one teensyweensy mistake.

It's got four bars on AT&T.

I'll forgive that artistic liberty this time though, because this isn't just the best edible iPhone seen so far, it was also used as Jerry's wedding cake. Granted that leaves one question: Which app did they save and freeze? [Jerry Brito via TUAW]

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<![CDATA[Eat Your Old Gadgets to Gain Their Powers and Pounds]]> I used Commodore 64s at school. We did BASIC programming, played Star Wars... It was such a fun machine that I wanted to eat it. Instead, I licked it. Now I can digest it and get its command line powers.

There is something cathartic about eating an old gadget or any other object that tickles your fancy. It may be a freaky tauntaun or a giant Wiimote. Perhaps a bunch of iPhone icons or an R2-D2. Whatever it is, the moment you sink your teeth in a perfect piece of frosted tech is like stepping into fresh snow, or watching the birds shine under the chirping sun after the rain is gone.

It just feels good.

Myself? I like to stuff my face with giant Lego brick cakes. Especially Lego carrot cakes. Call me crazy, but the cake tastes better thanks to its iconic power. Like cannibal tribes who ate their enemies to absorb their qualities, eating a frosted brick makes me absorb bites of good memories. They make me go back in time as I crush keys with my molars, downing sugar, egg, and flour memories through my gastrointestinal tract. And then pooping them out.

See? I'm already back at 13 just by looking at all the photos that Obsolete author, Giz collaborator, and retrogadget wizard Anna Jane Grossman would eat herself. The objects, not the photos. She would eat the photos if they were Polaroids made of pierogies, though.

The only thing I am missing is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum or a Sega Master System. Someone get me that cake and I will be complete. [Obsolete]

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<![CDATA[These Rock Band Drums Take the Cake]]> Rock Band drums really do take up a bit too much space. But there's always room for Rock Band Drums cake.

Baked by Mother of the Year candidate Sarah Johnson for her son's twelfth birthday, the cake sits on an authentic Rock Band drum stand. How did they have an extra stand? Her son plays so much Rock Band that he broke his first set of drums.

Attaboy! [Thanks Sqaurie!]

Taste Test is our weeklong tribute to the leaps that occur when technology meets cuisine, spanning everything from the historic breakthroughs that made food tastier and safer to the Earl-Grey-friendly replicators we impatiently await in the future.

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<![CDATA[Ace of Cakes' Nikon D60 Sculpture Yields Oddly-Shaped Slices]]> The fondant-wielding wizards at Ace of Cakes created this huge replica of a Nikon D60 DSLR for a photographer's birthday party. Way to stick it to all those upstart amateurs, Charm City Cakes.

We can't find any shots of it, but this cake actually featured another cake in its "viewfinder," which sounds both clever and delicious. But now that Ace of Cakes has put their toe in the pool of gadget cakes, there's no turning back. They'll have to make an iPhone cake, then a BlackBerry cake for fairness' sake, then a laptop, then there's the entire world of peripherals and gaming systems and... it's exhausting. [Engadget, Ace of Cakes]

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<![CDATA[Students Build Robot Muffin Maker, Prompt Re-Write of Song]]> Do you know the Robotic Muffin Maker, the Robotic Muffin Maker, the Robotic Muffin Maker? Well: you do now. Built by a Industrial Electrical Technician students Carl Boucher and Dominic Dussault, there's almost no other info about the project. But no matter: forward to about 1:30, and check out the neat mini-industrial ballet that is this thing in action. And then fantasize about munching on its output— an endless (ok, sort of) supply of fresh-baked muffin. I want one. [Makezine]

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<![CDATA[R2-D2 Cake Looks Too Delicious to Eat]]> If I were to get married, I would be honored if pastry chef Mark Randazzo of Mark Joseph Cakes would whip me up one of these awesome looking R2-D2 cakes for the reception. Unfortunately, that would also probably mean that my marriage would be over before it began. I would be left all alone, weeping in a corner cramming fistfuls of R2's delicious body into my mouth. [Mark Joseph Cakes via B-Side Blog via Boing Boing via Technabob]

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<![CDATA[Nokia's Chinese Mooncakes]]> In celebration of the Chinese mid-Autumn Festival (or Moon Festival), Nokia's sanctioned moon cakes in the shape of their phones. Not only are these low-end Nokias delicious, they probably have much longer battery life, better sunlight visibility and honestly, a bigger feature set as well. If you know where to buy these, let us know! [Sosol via Spluch]

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<![CDATA[Apple Cupcakes, Not Made of Apples (Still Good)]]> We've posted a lot of gadget cakes in these parts, which is precisely why we're so excited when someone takes it "to the next level." In avant garde fashion, the likes of which we will not wrap our head around for years (possibly decades), Cakes By 2 Moms has created Apple-themed cupcakes—cakes that fit in a cup—cake nanos, if you will.

In full disclosure, writing this post prompted me to make eggs for breakfast (a rarity in these parts). And for those who may not already know, eggs do little to counteract the craving of a shiny, sloppy chocolate cupcake along with a frosty glass of milk. [geeksugar via shinyshiny]

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<![CDATA[Gigantic Optimus Prime Birthday Cake Forcefully Removes Socks From Feet]]> Morgan Valentine, better known as best wife ever, ordered a custom-made Optimus Prime cake for her husband's 30th birthday. The cake was made by Nashville's The French Connection, and has dirt, rocks, grass, plants and an Optimus Prime the size of a toddler. I bet the guy even got sex afterwards. [Flickr via Boing Boing]

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<![CDATA[Optimus Prime Cake]]>
Andrew Green, he of the FloatingCat blog, has been in the kitchen baking like you wouldn't believe. And here it is, an entire gallery featuring his Transformer cake. It's the flat-faced cab, too, old school style. And there's even a video, with soundtrack.

Based on the 1984 version of Optimus Prime, it cost Andrew and his lady, Jessica, $85, and was four hours in the planning and 22 hours in the making. The key question here, though, is how many hours in the eating?

The finished cake, G1 Toy, and cartoon based toy [Flickr via Floating Cat]

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<![CDATA[Helio Ocean: The Cake]]> Our female-fearing cousins over at Kotaku are familiar with cakes made in the shape of their favorite things (games), but we don't often get the pleasure of eating our own gadgets. That's why this Helio Ocean cake made by a geeksugar reader is so sweet (heh).

The cake itself looks gigantic, and features none of the features the actual Ocean has—unless you count the fact that they both make us drool. Hit the link to see more pictures and the two creators posing next to the cake.

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Edible Geek: Helio Ocean Cake [Geek Sugar]

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<![CDATA[His & Her TiVo Wedding Cakes]]> This is the work of Debbie at DebbieDoesCakes (awesome name of a business) and it makes me wonder what kind of a couple loves TiVo so much to have the mascot as their wedding cake?

I do have to compliment Debbie on the outstanding work. Each cake is 18-inches tall and I would assume they were laid down to be cut into. To the couple that received these cakes: I would think about re-evaluating the marriage. Pardon my Sex and the City reference, but it is pretty easy to fall in love with a TiVo (ask Miranda) and possibly fall out of love with another, we should know.

Picture of the Day: Holy Matrimony [ZNF]

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<![CDATA[Nintendo Controller Cake, Better Than Wiimote?]]> If God made me choose between food and electronics, I would choose food (only because without it I would die about a week sooner than I'd die without my television). However, if such a completely moderately hypothetical travesty occurred, I would eat more food that looked like electronics to fill the hole in my half-cyborg, half-chocolate heart.

After reading my Techie Cake post, reader Sarah (probably out of her concern for my well-being should I be caught in a hypothetical food/electronic travesty) sent us this picture of her NES controller cake. Thanks Sarah, but I hope you brought enough to share with the rest of Gizmodo.

UPDATE: Hit the jump for Sarah's Gamecube Cake.


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<![CDATA[Gallery: 10 Yummy Techie Cakes]]>
Why does man choose to remake his favorite gadget in flour, sugar, eggs and butter? There are many theories, but current academic consensus seems to be that by ingesting an object, the ingestee can be imbued with the "powers" of said object.

I, myself can now store 100,000 songs and chirp when sensing cops on the highway.

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