I haven’t really had a fix for a lollipop since I was maybe 6 or 7. If there happened to be one laying around and I needed a sugar kick, sure, I’d give stick one in my mouth and be on my way, but as I aged, I moved further away from fruity sugar candy and closer to chocolate and ...
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Automatic Cake Decorator Lets Grandma Take a Load Off
It’s not that I’m against over-working geriatrics, but I’m very pro-properly decorated baked goods. And a tired grandma is an unmotivated grandma. Which is where the Automatic Cake Decorator comes into play. Grandma has spent about 45 minutes on her feet, icing and assembling the cake that I demanded for my birthday with the threat of a hellish tantrum if ...
Read More »Ninjabread Cookies
Even if you prefer Piratebread or even Zombiebread, you can’t deny the unique design of these Ninjabread Cookie Cutters. Made using strips of 0.5mm stainless steel and a jig to bend them into place, you can make your own Ninjabread Men if you’ve got the right supplies and feel like following some simple instructions at Instructables. If you thought catching ...
Read More »Dalek Birthday Cake
Even if you don’t regularly spend your birthday in and out of police boxes, you’ve got to hand it to Stacked Cakes for creating this ultra-realistic Dalek Cake, inspired by Doctor Who’s most reviled arch-nemesis, complete with moving and swiveling parts. Standing 22″ high and weighing nearly 20 kg, this cake could probably feed the entire planet of Skaro. And ...
Read More »We All Live In a Yellow Submarine Wedding Cake
Inspired by The Beatles’ 1968 psychedelic animated feature, Yellow Submarine, which in turn was inspired by the song of the same name, Deviantart user Estranged Illusions created this awesome Yellow Submarine Wedding Cake. The cake itself was made using vanilla strawberry cake with strawberry filling, marshmallow fondant and white butter cream. All the frosting design was made using Color Flow ...
Read More »People Getting Shot in the Face with Cupcakes By a Cannon is as Cool as it Sounds
A perfectly baked cupcake can do strange things to a man. For instance, I hadn’t thought about cupcakes in months before I saw this video and now it feels as though my one existential goal is to get a cupcake in my belly by any means necessary. If you dug this post’s headline, you’ll love the corresponding video. Yes, it ...
Read More »Lady Gaga Cookies
In homage to the greatest thing to happen to pop in decades, fffireburns and their friend Matt created these awesome Lady Gaga cookies, inspired by some of her more notable and unorthodox outfits. Each cookie has its own unique piece of Gaga attire so you can just imagine the fierceness. Funny, I my�reoccurring�dream of a dinosaur biting off Lady Gaga’s ...
Read More »R2-D2 Cake: Taste the Droid
Fellow GEARhead, Philly, wrote to us to tell us of her thrill at finding this excellent R2-D2 cake, which she said was particularly exciting because she had “always wondered what a droid tasted like.” Well, let me tell you, droids come in many flavors. Some taste like straight up metal, but then there are others that have that generic chicken-y ...
Read More »Asteroids Cookies Fill You With Confectionery Gaming
While Asteroids might not be your game of choice anymore there’s no denying the underlying charm of the vector graphic classic. It’s not really possible to lose when you’re mashing retro gaming, or even modern gaming for that matter, with delicious baked goods. If my Grandma baked more stuff like this I might consider just moving in with or without ...
Read More »Left 4 Dead 2 Gingerbread Cookies
It’s never easy to deny the scrumptiousness of gingerbread cookies. And if said cookies happen to be inspired by one of your favorite video games? Forget about it. These aren’t your grandma’s cookies, designed to resemble characters from Left 4 Dead 2, these gruesome and scary cookies are total eye candy for the gamer with a sweet tooth. Link
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