HOWTO make a wasp cake

At Cloth and Fodder, Beth J posted a HOWTO on making a delicious spider hunting wasp cake. It's superzesty lemon cake with wings molded from toffee.
Wasp cake (Cloth and Fodder, via CRAFT)

[#1 posted by Islington , July 7, 2008 1:05 PM]

Run away!

[#2 posted by pepsi_max2k , July 7, 2008 1:11 PM]

mmm... delicious(!) :o\

[#3 posted by Santa's Knee , July 7, 2008 1:11 PM]

They should call it "Quartermass Cake".

[#4 posted by Xopher , July 7, 2008 1:34 PM]

I thought WASP cake was angel food with white buttercream frosting.

Oh wait, you said wasp, not WASP.

Never mind.

[#5 posted by Perla , July 7, 2008 3:13 PM]

when real wasps fall on top of it, you can claim it's a garnish.

[#6 posted by Moon , July 7, 2008 3:46 PM]

Weird. A subway thread, then a wasp thread. And there was a wasp in my subway car this morning.

[#7 posted by Alys , July 7, 2008 3:52 PM]

I'm reminded of the recent Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp" just now... and the thought of a gigantic wasp is giving me the shivers.

@4 - LOL!

[#8 posted by mdhatter , July 7, 2008 4:23 PM]

#4 FTW!!

white buttercream frosting, indeed.

[#9 posted by Sas , July 7, 2008 8:55 PM]

Beth is an awesome cake maker! She made me an axolotl cake for my birthday this year, sooo delicious :) Unfortunately the limbs didn't regenerate after I cut them off though... The instructions are on Cloth and Fodder for that cake too, if a wasp does not take your fancy. :)

[#10 posted by alisong76 , July 8, 2008 3:39 AM]

OK, I've gone to Doctor Who with Agatha Christie land and I won't be back for a while...

[#11 posted by mdhatter , July 8, 2008 2:52 PM]

#10 - enjoy it. I especially loved the "Clue" joke they managed to work in.

[#12 posted by Pipenta , July 8, 2008 6:21 PM]

I really want to see this when it is frosted.

SAS, Do you study axolotls or just have a thing for them?

Wasn't there some Mad Magazine poem:

As I wandered like a clod,
alone amongst the pots and bottles,
onward on my way I plod,
I saw a host of axolotls.

Or something like that. Why is my brain filled with this stuff? How is it that I can remember the poem I memorized to recite in 3rd grade (Frost's "Departmental", a nerd even then...) while I can't remember phone numbers and useful things to save my life?

[#13 posted by Sas , July 8, 2008 10:34 PM]

I just think they are fascinating creatures Pipenta. :) I have an albino axolotl named Maxolotl, he's a year and a half now, and when I bought him his legs had mostly been bitten off. They grew back in a few months tho! Crazy creatures... The axolotl cake was modeled off him :P

I found the Mad poem in full, a take off of Wordsworth's 'Daffodils' :)

I wandered lonely as a clod,
Just picking up old rags and bottles,
When onward on my way I plod,
I saw a host of axolotls;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
A sight to make a man's blood freeze.

Some had handles, some were plain;
They came in blue, red pink, and green.
A few were orange in the main;
The damndest sight I've ever seen.
The females gave a sprightly glance;
The male ones all wore knee-length pants.

Now oft, when on the couch I lie,
The doctor asks me what I see.
They flash upon my inward eye
And make me laugh in fiendish glee.
I find my solace then in bottles,
And I forget them axolotls.

[#14 posted by Antinous , July 8, 2008 10:41 PM]

Oh, dear. I just realized that you're not talking about the Bene Tleilax.

[#15 posted by Pipenta , July 9, 2008 7:09 AM]

Oh the poem is grand, better than I remember.