It still looks like a cake. I'd like to see something that is indistinguishable to the real thing.

Pro Tip: Frosting melts in warm kitchens.

Dammit, people are dicks. I think the cake was a job well done!

Still looks great, I would have gone the lazy rout and just done a Salvadore Dali version on a cake.

I would of ate the cake as is.

Must of taken alot of time with the nun chuck and Wiimote.

Aw, it was a valiant effort, and I'm sure it was delicious.

Protip- Ask a pro.

Now I want cake.

Mmm.

I must say the nunchuck and remote look damned good. Nice job on those :)

Perseverance FTW.

Hello, the Aperture Corporation would like to purchase your cake as part of an experiment into the science of portal technology. Please come to our underground bunker and do not bring any mobile phones or devices for communicating with the outside world with you. You'll be GLaD you did.

It turned out well enough in my opinion. Things looked well in the first picture, it looks like she just got pissed/frustrated and mauled the cake in the second.

The cake is a lie!

I guess it collapsed when she pulled the sticks out?

But why does the formerly scrumptious-looking middle suddenly look like a big block of styrofoam in the 2nd pic?

So many mysteries...

That nunchuck is insane!

@erlik: There's a good chance she actually used a block of styrofoam in constructing it, as a way of situating the icing structure. That's my guess.

lol... these articles are tasty...

it's too bad you can't send tangible objects like food through the internet =)

@ChickenOfTheSea: styrofoam? Buddy, that's the "icing" that attached the inner cake to the outer hard shell. It must have dried and not stuck on :( Too thick/heavy maybe? Looks friggin awesome otherwise though -- and she's cute to boot!

@Maxine_T: Definitely looks like styrofoam to me. She wasn't afraid to use cardboard or dowels. Foam wouldn't surprise me, and that definitely looks like it.

@Kuraudo: Beat me to it :(

The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.

Kristy is pretty cute. An thats no lie.

It would have been a lot easier to make the cake if she had put the Wii in the horizontal position... but then... does ANYONE actually have their Wii horizontal? I don't think anyone would recognize it that way. "Hey a Wii-mote, nunchuck, and a white rectangle!"

Did someone say milf?

Oh wait, that was me.

We do what we must, because we can

YOU WANT THE CAKE?!? YOU COULDN'T HANDLE THE CAKE!!

Cake should have been horizontal, this would have resulted in less problems, I imagine.

Don't give up trying till you run out of cake.

/me waits for a portal-related cake.

That cake looks so delicious and moist.

Valiant effort.

Cake. Yum! Nice salvage job, too. Way to go, Kristy. I love it when a baker isn't afraid to show off their failures as well as successes.

@DarkOwl: This way. ^

@ChickenOfTheSea:

Both cardboard and dowels are common and in fact necessary materials in constructing cakes. I'm talking about all cakes. If you see a tiered cake it has cardboard under each layer and dowels stuck in the cake to support the layer. Styrofoam she could be faulted for, but certainly not dowels or styrofoam.

I think she was using the styrofoam as a base to build the exterior icing around. You can easily tell from the first picture that the interior is cakey (with some kind of jam/jelly filling?).

A baker and a gamer. Kristy, if you're reading this and are into guys who are also gamers, and enjoy eating baked goods, please let me know.

@belo: Yes.

Looks delicious...must be lunch time soon.

I don't care how the hell it ends up. I will cram the entire thing in my face.

Her flickr site has some cool other pics too like setting the long exposure time with the fireworks.

Bravo...

wheres the 360 or ps3 cakes, Someone make it happen

It looks like it was probably too hot for the chocolate to stablize. Regardless, it was a fantastic save! Always have a Plan B. The cake looks great.

@ChickenOfTheSea: Look in the first picture, you can see where the icing overflowed past the edges of the insides of the cake -- sorry, it's NOT styrofoam.

Damn you, game cakes! Now you're making me hungry as hell!

Pretty lady, I think I would eat any cake she baked for me, no matter how bad it turned out. LOL!

The cake would have been salvaged if she used fondant for the entire thing, it would have been all edible and measure twice and cut once. But the second cake not bad.

Here's the full story: craftastica.blogspot.com

Basically, I started with real cake, but it was failing even with the dowels in place. Then, I made an attempt to salvage it by replacing the cake with (cheater) styrofoam, but ran out of time.

The modeling chocolate stayed cold enough (I cycled it in and out of the fridge as needed), but was too heavy for such a tall, narrow cake. Next time (?!), I'd use a solid block of cake with no layers/filling to interfere with the much-needed structural integrity.

Thanks for noticing...

@Maxine_T: Yes, the first picture definitely looks like layers of cake with icing in between, but the second picture looks like a block of foam.