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Okay, okay, so in the past I’ve roundly condemned overly-fancy cakes as annoying and expensive and an overall pain in the butt to eat. I even wrote an article last week about alternatives to wedding cakes. But if somebody made me a cake like this one, I think I’d have to change my mind.
Ever read the Discworld series? This here’s the titular disc on the backs of four elephants on the back of a cosmic turtle, in cake form, and aside from some dowels in the elephants and the wire arc for the orbiting sun and moon the entire thing is 100% freakin’ edible!
So I guess what this proves is, as long as you make your huge, complicated wedding cake a total geek-out, I guess I’m on board. Let me know when some enterprising baker builds a gigantic edible Wii.
-Jim admits he is a Terry Pratchett fanboy
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This cake rocks my world. While I have not read the books, I am geek in the same way. I derived great pleasure from that cake. I am getting married and so have seen cakes that the only that impresses me is the price tag.
Posted by Christine at August 7th, 2007, 5:58 pmThat is truly an amazing cake.
I keep hearing about this Terry Pratchett guy and someday will have to investigate. He sounds like just the right amount of weird.
Posted by Crabby McSlacker at August 7th, 2007, 9:19 pmWhere are the elephants?
Posted by Sarah at August 13th, 2007, 1:11 pmCrabby - He started off an enjoyably goofy fantasy writer and has developed into a brilliant satirist/all-around writer. I particularly recommend the Watch books (Guards! Guards!, Jingo, basically anything involving Vimes) and the Mort books and…hell, just read them all as soon as possible!
Sarah - They’re obscured by the disk.
Posted by Jim at August 13th, 2007, 1:14 pmpoor little turtle carrying cake
Posted by bob at January 8th, 2008, 8:40 amLovely! I did a google search for renaissance wedding cake, and I find diskworld. I want one! maybe I should do a search for book theme cakes…
Posted by Sorcha_Mochrie at January 16th, 2008, 11:41 pmi was about to ask about the elephant but i’m guessing they are on top of the turtle but to small to view on the computer
Posted by dee at April 15th, 2009, 8:16 pm