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    Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    So which came first, the cake or the camera?


    Which works better as the... not only that, I got you THIS!!!!

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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    It's an awesome cake. I'm not dogging the outstanding design and fabrication, BUT ... it's kind of small. I mean, did the entire party have to share that tiny cake?!! You better be first in line or you're not getting any.
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    12/08/08

    @RacecarBoobTat: How can you tell it's small? From the pictures shown here on Giz, the only clue you have to the size of the cake is the guy's hand. He could have very huge hands. I can't access Flickr at work so maybe there is a more obvious clue, like a pic with dimensions of the cake written next to it.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    I'm waiting for my wife to bake me a cake shaped like a Porsche. And then....
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    12/08/08

    @Bodie1550: Alternately you could bake her a phallic shaped cake and then surprise her...
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    But it would have been so much easier to just give her a dick in a box.

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Isn't that what Lorena Bobbit got for her birthday? How's that workin' out for John?
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    12/08/08

    @Rabid Penguin: Oh don't make jokes like that. John is very testy and short tempered these days. He's liable to bite your head off if you make fun at his expense...
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    I was hoping that the real camera was encased in those layers of frosting. That would've been a shocker.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/08/08

    @Parkington is having fun trying new screen names: Especially when she finds out that the camera was not only rendered unusable by the cake batter poured around it, but was then damaged further by sitting in an oven to bake for a while :P
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    12/08/08

    @Kaiser-Machead: @Parkington is having fun trying new screen names: I, for one, have never heard anyone baking a cake with frosting on. Especially with the gooey mess that is cake batter.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    And for once in our lives, the cake is most certainly, and unequivocally not a lie.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    It would make it tough if her secret lover bakes her a Canon 5D2 pie.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/08/08

    @Kobe_No_Means_No: Pie? I'm having a little trouble trying to imagine that one.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    I thought for sure this story was going to end with the camera inside the camera cake. That would have been cool.. even if it ruined a perfectly good $2400 camera. It's the thought that counts anyway, right?
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    Real red velvet cake is good, I grant you, but not #1. Mississippi Mudd Cake is #1.
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    12/08/08

    @Curves: Boston Creme Pie. All this talk of cake is making me hungry. Except Anonymoose... his talk of cake did not make me hungry.
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    12/08/08

    @Rabid Penguin: ALERT ALERT ALERT!! RABID PENGUIN FINDS GENITAL WARTS CAKE DELICIOUS


    but forealzzzz, that meat cake is delicious. i've done it a couple of times before and it's nice. mix in strips of bacon between layers like you might use candied fruit in a real cake and you up the awesomeness.

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    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: Add a little flour to the bacon grease and you've got yourself a nice icing.
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    12/08/08

    @Rabid Penguin: maybe some caramelized onions in lieu of coconut shavings to top the cake. maybe some flowers carved out of some niceely roasted bell peppers. and then we just deep fry that sucker. oh mannnnnnn
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    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose:

    A little fried, ketchup flavored, ice cream to go with it.... mmmmm.


    I think I just threw up in my mouth a little... But I just imagined it was meat pie and it went down smooth.

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    12/08/08

    @Rabid Penguin: you selfish crastard, we could have used that upchuck and whipped it into some sort of airy topping. can't believe you just swallowed it without sharing.
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    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: This has nothing to do with meat pie, but I have a different, unrelated product I had also come up with, that maybe you can help me sell. Really it's just a combination of existing products. This is the first time I've revealed it to the public though... I thought of it many years ago, so I'm sure it's been made by now, but if not, it's a gold mine. You ready for it? You better sit down....


    Poon 'n Tang.


    That's right. Poon 'n Tang. You know when you go to gas stations or convenient stores and they tape spoons to their pens so you don't steal 'em. We'll we can make a fancy version and call it a Poon (half pen, half spoon), and package it with some Tang and maybe a notepad so you can use your Poon to make notes reminding yourself to buy more Tang. It'll make for a good Valentine's day gift.


    Like I said, it has nothing to do with pie, and has probably been thought of, but I was unwilling to search for Poon 'n Tang at work to make sure.

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    12/08/08

    @Rabid Penguin: dude, we can market that next to my brand-name gucci wares. well, actually, it was supposed to be gucci, except all of the g's were misprinted so it shows as a c. so, yeah, we'll seel the poon 'n tang along with cuccis. sure to make any woman swoon.


    "hey baby, i got you this can of spam, some poon 'n tang, and a cucci choker."

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    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: Brilliant!


    "And you can wash down that Tang with some Giz brand Meat Pie."

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    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: I'm also workin' on some Ho Flex exercise equipment.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    incidentally, lindsay lohan just gave a cake shaped like genital warts to samantha ronson.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: I no longer like cake.
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    Image of silomunke silomunke
    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    I like Cake gadgets better than Lego ones...


    Let's see a Cake Death Star!

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/08/08

    @silomunke: And I shall deliver good news..


    [gizmodo.com]

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    12/08/08

    @silomunke: You! Cake or Death Star.
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    Image of sammy baby sammy baby
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★:


    So my choice is, "or Death Star?"


    (Damn, now I need to see some Eddie Izzard.)

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    12/08/08

    @sammy baby: I sometimes catch that ad for the Army where the Mother says her son is now very driven. I must then pull the track from Dress to Kill where he does the bit about being a boy scout:

    I,was a very driven boy scout. Very driven boy scout. Driven everywhere, I was.


    It's funnier when he says it.

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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    Ahhh, they exposed the film when they cut it.
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    Image of Gilbert Tang Jr. Gilbert Tang Jr.
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: What is this, how you say, "film"?"


    Alas...

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: That icing looks like it will leave a film on your teeth after biting into a slice...
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    12/08/08

    @Gilbert: Yeah, I'm old!
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    Image of Gilbert Tang Jr. Gilbert Tang Jr.
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: At just about 27, I'm getting there. Still, I can't complain.
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    12/08/08

    @Gilbert: hahaha, you consider 27 getting old? sheesh, gizmodo teaches me things everyday.
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    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: No, I'm still young, but I'm getting there. In fact, this is the first year that I've actually started to "feel" it.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    'Tis why it's always best for a guy to know how to cook. Wooin' people with presents is nice, wooin' with presents AND good food makes it moreso...twice!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/08/08

    @Kaiser-Machead: Or in this case, bake.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/08/08

    @ripfire: Bake cook, either way it's preparing food that doesn't involve dialing and ordering a custom job :D
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/08/08

    @Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, but the way they do it looks pretty awesome.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    Four words:


    Gizmodo Gadget Cake Contest

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    12/08/08

    @jdbaile3: It looks like all you do is bake regular round layers and then carve/shape them before icing.
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    12/08/08

    @jdbaile3: Oh, is that all? It's a good thing that's all it takes because, wow, for a minute there, I thought this was impressively complex and something worthy of mention on this site.
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    12/08/08

    @Gilbert: Pish posh, we can bake iphone cookies in our sleep, and Steampunk zeppelin pound cakes with one hand tied behind our backs.
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    12/08/08

    @Gilbert: I didn't mean to trivialize this particular example of excellent work. I was only speculating as to the generic process.


    Can you see my house from that horse?

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    12/08/08

    @jdbaile3: Alas, I've but a pony.


    That said, the generic process of character design starts with basic shapes as well. Then all you have to do is carve/shape them before icing.


    Meh, I guess I'm just touchy because I get even separate my cake from the pan.

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    12/08/08

    @jdbaile3: *can't
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    12/08/08

    @Gilbert: My cake would be delicious and of good quality, but I would commit extreme icing fail.
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    12/08/08

    @jdbaile3: huh? but we only have like 3 female readers. i don't get this.
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    12/08/08

    @jdbaile3: I like that you separated the notion of deliciousness from that of quality.
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    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: You'd actually be surprised at how many of us readers are female.


    @jdbaile3: The cake is coated with fondant, not icing. Yes, you bake a cake and carve it before coating it with the fondant, but this is a bit harder process than you might think. It takes a little bit of skill to get nice layers and shapes in fondant. Using icing, this would be near impossible.

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    12/08/08

    @teh: Great, now I feel even less adequate.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/08/08

    @Gilbert: "because I [can't] even separate my cake from the pan. "


    Dude, Pam for Baking: Flour Edition. If that doesn't help, sprinkle extra flour and shake to even. And if THAT doesn't work, use springform pans with waxed paper bottom.

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    12/08/08

    @ripfire: All those solutions sound viable. None of them account for my cooking/baking retardation.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise
    By the picture... It looks like it is made of steak
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    12/08/08

    @mydatsunisincali: that's red velvet, my friend. only the best cake in the history of the world - ever.
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    12/08/08

    @mydatsunisincali:


    My guess is that's red velvet cake. And looks delicious. However, something about the icing or whatever it is on the outside, looks a little TOO much like actual melted plastic.


    Great husband and all, and great idea. I would probably just politely refuse a piece however. How much are the D700s? Don't they have an entry level DSLR?

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    12/08/08

    @Lolthien: That stuff is called fondant. It's edible and mostly made of sugar. Kinda like edible (as opposed to non-toxic) play dough.
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    12/08/08

    @vshank: Indeed. I have a killer red velvet cake recipe that I top with a tasty cream cheese frosting...I should make one, ya know, cause tomorrow is Tuesday and all.


    "Just what I always wanted Wheezer, I nice piece of ass."

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    12/08/08

    @qbrad: Though, have you ever had black icing? it tastes like a donkey's asshole.
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    12/08/08

    @robot-shmobot: One day you'll have to regale us with your account of how you found this out.
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    12/08/08

    @qbrad: Originally, fondant was made from the tears of the Queen's handmaidens. Only in recent times has the recipe shifted to sugar and water.
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    12/08/08

    @robot-shmobot: Brave of you to disclose personal familiarity with the flavor of donkey hole.
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    12/08/08

    @vshank: If you're a true foodie, you'll pass on the red velvet cake and spend your calories on a nice, plush swatch of genuine red velvet.
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