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Videogame related birthday cakes
Once a geek always a geek. Sadly, last year my Godmother passed away. She was a fantastic lady who always had a story to tell and was always happy no matter what she was going through. One of her amazing talents was sculpting in the medium of icing, marzipan and fruit cake. As such, every year on my birthday as a child, she'd ask me what I wanted on my birthday cake. Me being me, you can probably figure out it wasn't Action Man or Manchester United....
Of all the cakes I had made, I love this one the best. Dizzy is made out of an actual Easter Egg, really awesome work, here's another picture:-
Who would have thought an egg would make for such a well loved videogame hero? The C64 love doesn't stop there of course:-
Creatures was one of the all time great C64 games, Apex really knew how to push the little machine. The fuzzies on the cake look more like the ones in the actual game than those on the box, pictured next to the cake.
Another picture of the Creatures cake, yes I believe those ARE flying saucers, yummy...
While usually my keyboard gets chocolate on it from my fingers, this time my fingers got chocolate on them from the keyboard. Perhaps the sweetest querty keyboard ever on this awesome Pac-Man cake!
A Pac-Man birthday cake is sweet in many, many ways. Moving on, next we have....
Lemmings must have been somewhat more difficult to render in icing and food colouring, nevertheless it's still a lovely job and instantly recognisable. Lemmings was a C64 game too, you know.
Another shot of the Lemmings cake. And finally...
Even though I am sure I had an Amiga at this point, I still chose the C64 game Mayhem in Monsterland to feature on my 15th birthday cake. This shows my impeccable gaming taste for choosing game-play over graphics once again. At 15, wasn't I getting a bit old for this kind of thing? Hell no of course not! Heck if someone offered to make me a Bayonetta Birthday cake I'd jump at the chance, so if you want to make me one just leave a comment and contact details and I'll get right back to you.
For those of you blown away by my amazing birthday cakes, you can get higher resolution versions from my flickr stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/32165624@N04/
Who would have thought an egg would make for such a well loved videogame hero? The C64 love doesn't stop there of course:-
Creatures was one of the all time great C64 games, Apex really knew how to push the little machine. The fuzzies on the cake look more like the ones in the actual game than those on the box, pictured next to the cake.
Another picture of the Creatures cake, yes I believe those ARE flying saucers, yummy...
While usually my keyboard gets chocolate on it from my fingers, this time my fingers got chocolate on them from the keyboard. Perhaps the sweetest querty keyboard ever on this awesome Pac-Man cake!
A Pac-Man birthday cake is sweet in many, many ways. Moving on, next we have....
Lemmings must have been somewhat more difficult to render in icing and food colouring, nevertheless it's still a lovely job and instantly recognisable. Lemmings was a C64 game too, you know.
Another shot of the Lemmings cake. And finally...
Even though I am sure I had an Amiga at this point, I still chose the C64 game Mayhem in Monsterland to feature on my 15th birthday cake. This shows my impeccable gaming taste for choosing game-play over graphics once again. At 15, wasn't I getting a bit old for this kind of thing? Hell no of course not! Heck if someone offered to make me a Bayonetta Birthday cake I'd jump at the chance, so if you want to make me one just leave a comment and contact details and I'll get right back to you.
For those of you blown away by my amazing birthday cakes, you can get higher resolution versions from my flickr stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/32165624@N04/
Saturday, April 10, 2010
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