HOWTO make a Tardis cake

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 24, 2008 3:34 AM | permalink

Craftster user Umbrolly cooked this magnificent Tardis cake for her sister's birthday. Apparently the eerie Martian planetscape beneath the tardis was meant to be a nice smooth rectangular cake but went wrong -- I think it makes the whole thing just perfect. Lots of documentation on Craftster if you want to try your hand at it.

It looks really wobbily in these pictures, I used a different cake recepie to usual and it was a bit too moist, so what started out nice and rectangular went sort of squishy.

Link (via Craft)

posted in:

Favorite this! ( 5 )

Older Turn your browser into a bizarro-world TV when nothing's on: Neave Television

Newer HOWTO make giant, removable vinyl wall-stickers

Discussion

Take a look at this

#1 posted by strider_mt2k

, June 24, 2008 3:39 AM

I agree!

I think the cakescape beneath looks perfectly fitting!

Hope someone made coffee!

Take a look at this

#2 posted by FarrisGoldstein , June 24, 2008 5:11 AM

"Doctor Who? What is he talking about?"

"Why does it still look like a police box?"

Hartnell was the best. Looking at this wobbly cake reminds me of watching An Unearthly Child.

Take a look at this

#3 posted by fdragon , June 24, 2008 6:17 AM

is there more cake on the inside than there looks to be on the outside?

Take a look at this

#4 posted by Boba Fett Diop , June 24, 2008 7:43 AM

For "eerie Martian landscape," read "gravel quarry in the Mildands."

Take a look at this

#5 posted by Mark Hurst

, June 24, 2008 8:17 AM

I recently spotted a Dalek cake in an Oxford, UK bakery - photo here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhurst/2607103597/

Take a look at this

#6 posted by Torchwood , June 24, 2008 9:13 AM

I agree, gravel quarries are the number one spot for Tardis sitings. Oh and the cake is amazing, i can imagine it vanishing just as i am about to cut it.

Take a look at this

#7 posted by ill lich , June 24, 2008 10:48 AM

I'm guessing the edges are wavy because it's in the processes of materializing/dematerializing?

Take a look at this

#8 posted by Josephine , June 25, 2008 1:28 PM

Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey cake!

Cory, she says right in her post: "This is how I built up the cake for the base (randomly)". I think the "wobbly" bit you've quoted refers to the TARDIS portion. The landscape is intentionally quarry-licious.