In which I am naughty
I have a mountain of work, admin, packing, and correspondence to catch up on, but instead I am reading through my new favourite blog, Cake Wrecks, which I discovered via an old favourite blog, Jenny Davidson’s Light Reading. I’m sure all of you have been enjoying it for years. What can I say? I am slow.
So far it has led me to many pleasures but few top the delight of the world’s worst Dalek cakes. I confess that I laughed so hard I cried.
Then it led me to this. The making of the most incredible cake I have ever seen:
Apparently it took twelve days to make. Wow. Just wow.
Posted by Justine at 14:35, 6 December 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, Excuses, Food, Frippery, New York City/USA, Sydney/Australia | 8 Comments »
Comments
Trackbacks & Pingbacks
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
Leave a Reply
Spam filters ate your comment? Let me know and I will rescue it.

- A Dress A Day
- Amateur Gourmet
- Eat Drink One Woman
- Eric Asimov
- Fashion Tribes
- Go Fug Yourself
- Manolo’s Shoe blog
- Megnut
- Miss Meghan
- On the runway
- Shoewama
- Shophound
- Showstudio
- Tehinterweb
- The Strong Buzz
- the food section
- Alien Onion
- Anonymous Lefty
- Articulate
- Damselfly
- Inside a dog
- Lili Wilkinson
- Margo Lanagan
- Matilda
- Nadstown
- Oh Errol
- Possums Pollytics
- Rjurik Davidson
- Sarsaparilla
- Semi Naked Truth
- Stack
- Talking Squid
- Tessa
- Watchdog of the Wankers
- Westerblog
- jonathan strahan
- petey sefton
- yoof literature
- ASIF!
- About Last Night
- Angry Black Woman
- Asking the Wrong Questions
- Baghdad Burning
- Carl Brandon Society Blog
- Chicken Spaghetti
- Critical Mass
- Edge of the West
- Emdashes
- Endicott Studio blog
- Freakonomics
- Jennifer Weiner
- LJ Folk
- Meg Cabot
- Pub Rants
- Sarah Weinman
- Smart Bitches
- The Longstockings
- Unshelved
- Vertical Books
- Women in comics
- Worth the Trip
- Writers Beware
- YA Authors Cafe
- YALSA
- Yellow Peril
- boingboing
- bookslut
- making light
- moorish girl
- mumpsimus
- nineseveneight
- normblog
- overheard in NYC
- whatever
- Alice Taylor
- Ben Rosenbaum
- Bennett Madison
- Charlie Stross
- Chris McLaren
- Christopher Barzak
- Christopher Rowe
- Claire Light
- David Moles
- Diana’s Diversions
- E. Lockhart
- Emily Pohl-Weary
- Gregory Frost
- Gwenda Bond
- Hal Duncan
- Jaclyn Moriarty
- Katie King
- Kristin Livdahl
- Lauren McLaughlin
- Margo Rabb
- Marrije
- Maureen Johnson
- Maureen McHugh
- Nathaniel Stern
- Scott Westerfeld
- Sheree Thomas
- Sillybean
- Walter Jon Williams
- Ysabeau Wilce
- jenny davidson
- lauren cerand
- maud newton
- nalo hopkinson
- pseudopodium
- rebecca skloot
- tingle alley
L'Fashion, L'Food
Oz
Regular Curiosities
Rest of the World
Sport
- "Bombs, brainwashing and supernovae" @robinwasserman? Sounds awesome. And all of those could be *on* a train. # 6 hours ago
- Er that last was meant for @robinwasserman. # 6 hours ago
- Have you got a plot yet? Is your hand still up? I'm on the acela 2 Philly. In the quiet car. Your plot shld involve trains. # 6 hours ago
Recent Comments
- Samwell on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- wandering-dreamer on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Ellen on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Cyndy Otty on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Stephanie on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- angharad on Blank Page Heroine
- Sally on Liar Question
- Summer on FAQ
- Summer on Liar Question
- Summer on Liar Spoiler Thread (updated)
- moonspinner on Blank Page Heroine
- Philip on NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
- imelda on NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
- Kethry on NaNo Tip No. 14: Procrastination can be Your Friend
- PixelFish on Blank Page Heroine
Recent Posts
- NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Liar Question
- NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
- Blank Page Heroine
- NaNo Tip No. 16: Edit as You Go
- Signed Books in the USA
- NaNo Tip No. 14: Procrastination can be Your Friend
- Ebooks of My Novels
- NaNo Tip No. 12: Turn the Internet off
- Last Night’s Event
- NaNo Tip No. 10: Don’t Skip the Tricky Bits
- On Tips + OTP
- NaNo Tip No. 8: Square Brackets
- Girlfight
- NaNo Tip no. 6: Emergency Unstucking Techniques
Best of Blog
- Liar Spoiler Thread (updated)
- January is writing advice month (sticky post) Updated
- Types of crazy writers
- How to rewrite
- Getting paid, or, don’t quit your day job
- How to write a novel*
- A Writer’s Job (Updated)
- Too Young to Publish
- Average First Novel Advances
- A Beginner’s Guide to Cricket
- Being Dumped is Much Much Worse
Categories
- 1930s NYC novel
- Admin
- Basketball
- Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
- Best of Blog
- Bloggery
- Book challenges
- Book tour
- Cons & Other Gatherings
- Cricket
- Daughters of Earth
- Excuses
- Fans & readers
- Fashion
- Feminism
- First Kiss
- Food
- Frippery
- How To Ditch Your Fairy
- Ideas
- Last Day of the Year
- Liar
- Liquids
- Listening
- Love is Hell
- Magic or Madness trilogy
- Manga
- Mangosteens
- Musings
- New York City/USA
- Praising
- Publishing business
- Ranting
- Reading
- Research
- Science
- Scott's books
- Search Terms
- Sport
- State of the World
- Sydney/Australia
- Titles & names
- Toilets
- Tour de France
- Travelling
- Unicorns
- Vainglory
- Viewing
- What's your fairy?
- Whingeing
- Words & Language
- Writing goals & milestones
- Writing life
- Writing process
- Young Adult literature
- Zombies


Stefanie Says:
That is seriously one of the most impresseive cakes I’ve ever seen. My favorite is still the Wall-E cake though.
http://flickr.com/photos/30572319@N08/2861757230/
I’m too much of a chicken to read Cake Wrecks in fear that one day something I make will end up on there. Instead I watch the flickr group “That’s a Cakes?!?“
December 6th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Stefanie Says:
*impressive
Gah, bad misspelling!
December 6th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
pixelfish Says:
For some reason the amazing cake picture isn’t showing up in my browser. But I was wondering if it was the Batman cake from a month or so back. Because that one was pretty cool.
As for the poor Dalek cakes, yes, they are bad, but it is hard to make Daleks from food items. I once made Daleks from hardboiled eggs, pickles, and cucumber, and it was a pain getting the toothpicks to center correctly. Also, half way into its creation, it tried to kill me.
December 6th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Jessica Says:
Just to ease your mind, Cake Wrecks has only been existence since May. You’re only a few months behind! <3
December 6th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
5. Justine Says:
Jessica: Only seven months behind. I feel so much better!
December 6th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Becky Says:
Cake Wrecks is an absolutely brilliant site! Truly!
December 7th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Stephanie Leary Says:
OMG, the Batman cake. The brackets on the drain pipe! The wee manhole cover! Amazing. But is it even edible after twelve days?
December 8th, 2008 at 11:38 am