Comments on: Marzipan Turtles All the Way Down

Marzipan Turtles All the Way Down

LeeJay — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:50:51 -0800

Discworld cake from cake decorator Jane Fisk. (She does some other neat stuff, too.)

By: Vindaloo

Vindaloo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:57:57 -0800

wow

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:01:38 -0800

That is seriously incredible. And she writes as if it's nothing at all.

By: goo

goo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:02:42 -0800

Mmmmm, yummy!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:16:56 -0800

It's a shame it's not made from something permanent.

By: CaptMcalister

CaptMcalister — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:35:30 -0800

Wow, this is good. And smackfu, would these be nearly as impressive if they were made out of clay or plastic?

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:37:32 -0800

Amazing.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:44:57 -0800

Haha. Turtles All the Way Down is gonna love that.

By: smallerdemon

smallerdemon — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:07:11 -0800

I love that she got the crater pocks on the Great A'tuin.

By: Malor

Malor — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:11:47 -0800

I think that may be the first cake I've ever seen that made me laugh out loud with amazement. Seriously. Wow. I mean, just the elephants.... "the elephants are modelled and added to the turtle's back". Gee, that sounds easy. :)

By: Ruki

Ruki — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:20:25 -0800

That is just incredible.

By: whatzit

whatzit — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:48:20 -0800

It's a shame it's not made from something permanent The underlying fruitcake, well, that may or may not be permanent. But marzipan and rolled fondant are eternal. Kept dry at room temperature, they can be kept for years and years and years. (My parents have demo cakes that are almost as old as I am.)

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:33:45 -0800

very cool.

By: Soulfather

Soulfather — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:05:24 -0800

It's a Discworld wedding cake. 13-year-olds are allowed to get married now?

By: edgeways

edgeways — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:13:15 -0800

ah... I was wondering how long it would take for the first slam.

By: anjamu

anjamu — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:14:19 -0800

She seems to specialize in [marzipan] elephants, as they turn up on a couple of her other cakes, too. This one is kind of astonishing just in its shape. Great post.

By: PontifexPrimus

PontifexPrimus — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:50:29 -0800

Not to detract from the great artisanship, but why make a cake so beautiful you wouldn't want to eat it? I can see the value in decorative foods and wish I had the talent to do carvings and modelings to make my dishes appeal to the eye as well as the palate, but in the end a cake is made to be eaten, isn't it?
I understand the concept of transient art and the ephemeral nature of every food arrangement but this is taking it to ridiculous, if breathtaking extremes... I literally couldn't eat a slice of that pie, so why make it out of edible material in the first place?

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:05:30 -0800

It's for her daughter's wedding. That's just sad: on the pivotal day in your adult life, a demonstration of your death-'til-you-part love for your soon-to-be-spouse, you're upstaged by a cake based on a mediocre fantasy book series.

By: BoringPostcards

BoringPostcards — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:14:19 -0800

I wouldn't be able to watch when they cut that cake. Really, really beautiful.

By: quin

quin — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:41:13 -0800

Soulfather : It's a Discworld wedding cake. 13-year-olds are allowed to get married now? Not sure if I read your comment right Soulfather, but I'm 35 and I still enjoy the Discworld books. In fact, I would suspect that most 13 year-olds might miss some of the more subtle humor in them. As to the cake, that's pretty astonishing. A truly remarkable effort.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:44:53 -0800

She is not the first! This cake is amazing, but also look at this one by a different artist, which I first saw a few years ago.

By: revfitz

revfitz — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:49:27 -0800

That's awesome. In other awesome wedding cake news, David Malki !'s cake:

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:50:20 -0800

it's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:54:09 -0800

There's a place in Baltimore called Charm City Cakes. I saw the decorator on Food Network. After seeing the Serenity and Fist of Rock cakes it's all I can do to not go down there and beg to be apprenticed.

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:42:33 -0800

Very cool stuff. And revfitz, if I ever get married I want to have that as my wedding cake.

By: moira

moira — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:17:08 -0800

Ha.

By: notmydesk

notmydesk — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:28:08 -0800

Awesome! Now can we please have a Discworld MMORPG? Please?

By: salmacis

salmacis — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:59:16 -0800

I went to a wedding once where the cake was in the style of the Magic Roundabout. Both bride and groom must have been in the mid thirties. Oh yeah, and I'm 35 and I like Discworld, so nyah!

By: kcds

kcds — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:11:09 -0800

orthogonality : That's just sad: on the pivotal day in your adult life, a demonstration of your death-'til-you-part love for your soon-to-be-spouse, you're upstaged by a cake based on a mediocre fantasy book series. Yeah - what were they thinking? A wedding cake is not a suitable forum for personal expression, it's a vehicle for mindless conformity, lest we offend orthogonality. I hope they didn't write their own vows, because they might not have stuck to the rules.