R2D2 cake

I'm extremely impressed with this 3D R2D2 cake from NYC baker Mark Randazzo. No idea what it tastes like, but that's some pressy sharp edible sculpture. Link

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Taste would likely include flavors of cardstock, wood, possibly metal, chewy mostly tasteless sugar and then some cake. In most cases these cakes are a lie.

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#1, Why would R2D2 taste like Chewy?

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It's technically a cake, but really, it's a marzipan sculpture. Has anyone ever tasted one of these things? Are they worth eating, or is it just piles of generic yellow cake encased in marzipan?

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I'd like a piece of the eye, please. Or perhaps the extendable date port-thing.

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@#3, it's probably covered in fondant, not marzipan. Some of it even tastes good.

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Beautiful.

Wasn't this flickr also Boingboinged once?

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C3PO: "What's that R2?. . . what do you mean 'EAT ME'???!!!!"

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@#4: "extendable date port"? Is there some SW droid porn out there I'm not aware of?

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Should have been "data." R2's best work can be found on Roboporn.org. Little guy is always sticking his thing in strange computers. I hear he's quite the popular tool at cylon parties.

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#2: #1 was funny, 'till you came along and . Winner.

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Ace of Cakes anyone? Come on Bravo, thats just sad.

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#5 you are right it was fondant. It was the cake my wife got my 35th birthday party. She got at Mark Joseph Cakes in NY. It was actually quite tasty; chocolate cake with a chocolate "mousey" cream underneath the fondant. I have a bit of a sweet tooth, and this really tasted good... even 3 days after the party.

The only "problem" was decapitating R2 in front of my friends in order to serve it. I felt like Darth Vader blasting him in the trench outside the death star.

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This IS the droid I'm looking for! ;-)

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#15 posted by Anonymous , February 17, 2009 10:09 AM

I recently made a cake based on this one. He gave a recipe for marshmallow fondant that was very easy to make, and quite delicious. My 7-year old son and his friends loved it! (So much better than store-bought fondant, and much less expensive too!). I have to say, though, that the frame made out of wood, etc. was unnecessary. I made mine out of two supports on the bottom (foil covered ceramic mini loaf pans), with a flat plate at the base with the cake on top. You could also use covered 2x4 scraps cut the the right size, covered in foil, then covered in fondant.

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