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This 500-pound Darth Vader cake could feed the entire Death Star

Have you ever wondered what Darth Vader would look like if he hailed from Candyland? After building a 300-pound, Imperial-stormtrooper-shaped pastry earlier this year, the bakers at Amanda Oakleaf Cakes upped the ante and recreated Anakin Skywalker out of gâteau. This Sith dessert was served last weekend at the 501st Legion Banquet for Star Wars…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Aug 28

This Alien versus Predator wedding cake is disturbingly adorable

It seems like the Predator is making up with everybody nowadays — this pastry only confirms it. A baker named Tracey at The Little Cherry Cake Company in Rossendale, England has sculpted this monstrous gâteau. Behold — in frosting — two of cinema’s foremost extraterrestrial monsters making romantic amends. It’s too cute too eat, and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 12

Malfunctioning Cake Ruins Party and Spews Liquor All Over Oil Tycoons (Updated: Fake)

Sea-raping mega-oil firm Shell has a new rig to launch, and like any enormous company, it decided to celebrate with a private party atop Seattle’s Space Needle. The crown jewel? An oil rig-shaped cake which sprays liquor! Into your face. This video was captured by a sneaky environmentalist who crept into the fete uninvited—as you…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 7

If H.R. Giger were a pastry chef, his cakes might look something like this

For his Cakeland project, Oakland sculptor Scott Hove takes cues from both the animal kingdom and the modern kitchen. He gives flamboyant gâteaus teeth, jaws, and imposing frosting spikes. If someone decided to reboot Alien on Planet Candyland, Hove’s work would be a good place to start. Like a poison arrow frog, Hove’s colorful delicacies…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 28

This Tim Burton zoetrope cake is way too nifty to eat

Here’s a pastry that has too much technical merit to be so callously consumed. Confectionary sculptor Alexandre Dubosc has created this edible zoetrope as a tribute to the oeuvre of Tim Burton. Watch as monster eyeballs morph into Jack Skellington and Batman’s insignia. If all cakes were this aesthetically thrilling, we’d always skip dessert. [Via…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 25

The Ark of the Covenant Cake is Face-Meltingly Awesome

The Groom’s cake may be a bit of a consolation prize for otherwise being ignored on the big day but that doesn’t men you shouldn’t milk it for all its pastry goodness. Like this guy, who got himself the Ark of the Covenant in cake. The Ark was created by Charm City Cakes, a specialty…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 24

Six Foot Stormtrooper Cake Reveals the Empire’s Latest Diabolical Weapon: Diabetes

If you attend a Sci-Fi convention, you’re going to see about a squadron of Stormtrooper costumes. But only one Stormtrooper is a moist dessert that goes great with milk. Caketrooper. The 6-foot, 4-inch, 300-pound cake-infused soldier of the Empire was created by Oakleaf Cakes for the Arisia Sci-Fi convention. A metal frame serves as the…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 16

How to bake an insane cake based on the geologic time scale

This geologic time spiral cake — which was baked by a group of geologists at Oxford University — took 32 eggs, 3 kg of marzipan, 7 people, 30 hours of labor, and several billion years of evolution. Watch how they constructed it in the above how-to guide. That K-T boundary looks scrumptious. [Via Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 4

I Was Unprepared for How Terrifying These Cakes Are

Scott Hove is a scary scary man. His latest series, “Deadly Desserts”, is all about cakes with fangs and tongues and… *shudder*. I feel like I’m staring into the maw of a great pink hellbeast. So delicious. So evil. [Hi Fructose via Neatorama]

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 17

Don’t Say Cheese. Instead, Eat Cake.

If you can’t afford a FujiFilm X100 camera in all of its retro glory, just make a cake in its likeness instead. It’s the fiscally responsible alternative. [Gary Cruz via PetaPixel]

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 8

25 Geeky Weddings that are just as fantastical as the Royal Wedding

While the rest of the world dons their fancy hats for the Royal Wedding, we wanted to pay tribute to the great amazing science fiction and fantasy-themed weddings that have rocked our universe. Whether it’s a fully costumed themed ceremony or just a nod, we’ve got the world’s geekiest weddings right here. We hope this…

Tech News Meredith Woerner Apr 29

This Terminator 2 Cake Is Perfect For Almost No Occasions

When you first espy the amazingly molten Terminator 2 cake, you’re stunned at the fine balance of technical prowess and artistry that went into its creation. And then you start to think: what exactly would a cake like this commemorate? Birthday, wedding, bat mitzvah—doesn’t seem quite right. But the next time you’re having a “Happy…

Movies Brian Barrett Apr 14

Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake is the Only Spin-Off Video You Need to Watch

It may’ve taken poor Dad 10 hours to make (and just minutes to destroy), but there’s something to be said about this cunning physics exercise forced upon the six year old birthday-boy. We hope he learned a valuable lesson about the rules of position, velocity and acceleration—not to mention the importance of brushing teeth afterwards.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 21

There is nothing better than the unicorn-riding rainbow zombie cake

Rainbows, zombies, a piranha plant, robots, skulls lightning bolts, let’s just say Awesome Cake is awesome. Hey, Ace of Cakes — you just got served! This cake was created by Barbarann Garrard. It’s called Awesome Cake. [Cake Rhapsody via Super Punch]

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 26

This Amazing Ghostbusters Cake Should Cross Streams With My Belly

An incredible, edible recreation of the climactic Stay Puft Marshmellow Man scene. Any couple so united in their love of Ghostbusters that they’d commission that cake is destined for a lifetime of Slimer-free bliss. Oh, and it’s glow-in-the-dark: From the same mad Charm City Cakes geniuses who brought you Wall-E and Eve. Here’s hoping they…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 10

This iPhone Cake Has Real iPhone 4 Stuffing

When Gizmodo reader Carlos got an iPhone-shaped cake for his birthday, he already thought he’d made out pretty well. But it’s when he cut into it that the real present, well, presented itself: a brand new iPhone 4. Take that, previous generations of iPhone cake! Your vanilla innards officially look sad and cheap compared to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 22

Disney Patents Interactive Cakes

Think back, if you will, to the last time you ate a birthday cake. Don’t you remember griping about how it didn’t really do anything? Well, Disney’s looking to fix all that with interactive cakes. Yes, birthday cakes with pico-projectors. Just when people were perfecting the non-interactive cake, Disney had to go and throw this…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 20

When a Fanboy Meets a Fangirl

Andy works for LG. Kaylee works for T-Mobile. They both love Android, and they weren’t afraid to use their wedding cake to show it. Andy writes: We got the idea in the middle of planning the wedding and found a great cake maker who was able to pull it off. As well I designed the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 13

This Wall-E Cake Is Pixar-Perfect

This is how it was meant to be: Wall-E and Eve, hand in flipper, together in perpetual robot harmony. At least until I take a fork and knife to their delicious, cake-filled cores. This Charm City Cakes creation goes so far as to make the ground beneath their treads out of graham cracker and chocolate.…

Movies Brian Barrett Nov 30

I Want To Sling My Face at This Incredible Angry Birds Cake

Whoever thought Angry Birds could be as delicious as it is addictive? I’m mostly just happy to find a level know I can clear in no time. This amazing cake homage by Anya Richardson may also be the only one of its kind, according to its creator’s tweet: “Had someone ask how much $ to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 10

This 500-pound Darth Vader cake could feed the entire Death Star

This Alien versus Predator wedding cake is disturbingly adorable

Malfunctioning Cake Ruins Party and Spews Liquor All Over Oil Tycoons (Updated: Fake)

If H.R. Giger were a pastry chef, his cakes might look something like this

This Tim Burton zoetrope cake is way too nifty to eat

The Ark of the Covenant Cake is Face-Meltingly Awesome

Six Foot Stormtrooper Cake Reveals the Empire’s Latest Diabolical Weapon: Diabetes

How to bake an insane cake based on the geologic time scale

I Was Unprepared for How Terrifying These Cakes Are

Don’t Say Cheese. Instead, Eat Cake.

25 Geeky Weddings that are just as fantastical as the Royal Wedding

This Terminator 2 Cake Is Perfect For Almost No Occasions

Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake is the Only Spin-Off Video You Need to Watch

There is nothing better than the unicorn-riding rainbow zombie cake

This Amazing Ghostbusters Cake Should Cross Streams With My Belly

This iPhone Cake Has Real iPhone 4 Stuffing

Disney Patents Interactive Cakes

When a Fanboy Meets a Fangirl

This Wall-E Cake Is Pixar-Perfect

I Want To Sling My Face at This Incredible Angry Birds Cake

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