I swear to break myself of posting about baked goods. At the very least, I won’t do another toy or cake -related post this week.
Oh, who am I kidding!
It took cake designer Elisa Strauss and a team of people twelve days to make this 300 lb (~136 kg) cake. The LEGO Men (and Ladies) are handmade and edible.
I confess that I have recently avoided blogging about my favorite video game baking site, Snack or Die, because it seems unfair that I post whenever Jocelyn posts, stealing all her photographs.
But Jocelyn’s brilliant Day of the Tentacle sugar cookies simply cannot be ignored. Sugar cookies themselves seem especially autumnal. The icing itself should be a cinch to mix. Apple Jacks cereal O’s make for perfect Purple Tentacle and Green Tentacle suction cups. All in all, what a neat Halloween baking project for any fan of LucasArts adventure games.
Also—and this has nothing to do with baking—there is not much on YouTube in the way of the old Maniac Mansion TV show starring Joe Flaherty. That seems criminal!
You guys. This is maybe more amazing than the Tatooine bento.
Apparently, this work of Incredible Genius was made for Derek Lieu by his girlfriend. Sheez, nice lady. Lieu posted more detailed photographs, along with plenty of annotations, on his Flickr, here. (The Yoshi egg is an actual quail egg!)
Snack or Die is, without a doubt, my very favorite recipe website. I am always in awe: Jocelyn is the MacGyver of pastries.
Her newest confection is a jarringly apt likeness of the Super Monkey Ball mascot, its visage rendered into a perfect little cupcake. The monkey’s most salient feature, curly-cue ears, is cleverly reproduced using cinnamon cereal puffs. And the miniature pompadour is simply a Tootsy Roll that has been painted over with chocolate frosting.
So adorable!
OK, OK. The photo itself is from a few months ago, apparently, and this really doesn’t have anything to do with video games, I know. But I figure Star Wars devotees and video game players might have overlapping cultural interests, and anyway, I liked this. Ready?
The entire Bento Challenge flickrpool is well worth checking out, but Rena’s contributions to the group are just astonishing:
Snack or Die, the video game -themed baking recipe site, now proffers instructions for Mega Man cupcakes.
This is one project I think I could try. The recipe arrives just in time for next month’s Mega Man 9 living room launch party! And since I can just start with blank, boring cupcakes from the supermarket, I can pull this off without burning anything. Serve with E-Tanks, perhaps?
And look at how cute and scrumptious and worried Mega Man’s little face is!
And he’s so accurate, too! Compare to this Post-It art (“greenscale”) that appeared two years ago on Kotaku:
See? It’s dead-on.
Snack or Die is a recipe website dedicated to video game -themed pastries.
The how-to blog’s most recent addition, a recipe for Metroid Cake Balls, looks dangerously delicious. This Zebesian confection calls for cake mix, cream cheese frosting, and lots of white chocolate. Red M&Ms substitute for the iconographic nuclei, and the mandibles are scrumptiously unthreatening cashews.
Genius!
