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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/life-sized-sculpture-horse-actually-13878441
That’s amazing!
What an idea, it sure turned out worth the prize.
It is amazing yet horrible. Makes me feel sorry for the horse, which is ridiculous since it’s a cake and all.
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That too, it is alarming at first sight, but sure worthy of the price it received, very well done.
Do you think “Yum!” when you look at that cake? No? Me neither.
With all of the reality shows on TV about making fantastic cakes I have come to a strong opinion that I don’t like them. As cakes. They are fine as art, but I want a cake that I look at and anticipate eating. I want it to look delicious.
I don’t want to hesitate over which part to cut into, as if I am slaughtering the realisticly-rendered horse, or baby, or pregnant woman. It’s hard enough deciding which end of the chocolate Easter bunny to start on. I don’t want to get a mental image of how many baker’s and decorator’s fingers were molding and poking and pressing the bite of dessert I’m about to eat, and hoping that they washed first. I don’t want to look at a fantastic structure with realistic-looking details and wonder, “What the heck is that shiny (or plastic-looking or metallic) stuff made of? Is it edible?”
Give me a luscious German Chocolate cake or carrot cake or simple pound cake with a trickle of glaze any day. A birthday cake with candles that can be removed is about as far as I like to go. Or the nice touch which restaurants do where they put chocolate or raspberry sauce in a squeeze bottle, write a message on the plate with it, and place the delicious butter cake artfully in the center – that’s the kind of fancy stuff I like.
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On a cake “technical” side…is this really a cake? Marshmallows and rice krispies? Just wondering. I think I’d rather see this as a clay sculpture but as talented as the artist is, this may be her nitch for being noticed and the message is as current now as it was in WWI.
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WHY? What a waste of usable food ingredients if it really is a cake. I see these on commercials for the food channel. I ask why then too.
After thinking about that delicious butter cake I had at a restaurant, I decided to bake one. I made this Kentucky Butter Cake recipe from allrecipes.com and it was a bit hit:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/7479/kentucky-butter-cake/
The only thing is that they tell you to pour on the glaze before removing the cake from the bundt pan. If I were to make it again, I would save half of the glaze and pour it over the cake after it is turned out onto a cake plate, because the buttery sugary glaze is really nice. It didn’t taste quite as decadent as the one I had at a restaurant but it was delicious. I think the restaurant portion came with a caramelly topping. Great cake to have with coffee in the morning.
Yeah, I think about actual barbed wire cuts I have seen on a horse and let’s just say that eating is not anywhere on a list of priorities when you are dealing with those kinds of wounds.
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It is very realistic, and I’m sure it was appropriate to the story, but it certainly is less than appetizing. It’s more a work of art that looks like a cake, than a cake.
That’s what amazes me about the cake competitions, and shows like Cake Boss. Very little of the entire ‘cake’ is edible, and many times there are PVC pipes, and other armatures in there. I like that a lot of the Food Network Holiday, Halloween, and Spring competitions take off points for non-edible items on the plate.
