Back in high school I had this one English teacher who was obsessed with death, or so it seemed. Every story we read in class, she could find something that symbolized it. A broken coffee mug, a handful of balloons, a newborn baby - all symbolized death. I'd like to say that this Boo Mario cake symbolized triumph over death, but I'm afraid she'd find me on the internet and come to my apartment to chastise me. She was scary. This cake was actually submitted to me via GameCakes.com, but I've not had too much time to work on that site lately, and it is due for a good spam-comment cleaning. Still, this cake had to be seen. Excellent job, despite a little sloppy tongue-work - but who hasn't been guilty of that?
The Boo Mario Cake Symbolizes Death
11:20 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Mike Fahey
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After Fahey's comment, that tongue is now declared NSFW.
looks good...I want some cake now...
w00t! In before another "gimme money!" post!
Yes!, gamecakes are back :D...
I want cake! Plus my $500
I hate to break it to you Fahey, but I've never had sloppy tongue-work with my cakes. It must just be you.
1132345 - good site. Sally
Give Boo cake to me....i like cake, mainly free cake.....Mmmm cake....Mmmm free...
Wow....look at those boomers (mushies) I want them!!!!
FAIL that looks like non-regulation icing!
In a weird coincidence, CNN just published a story on why people with sloppy tongue work don't get to second base ... no, seriously: [www.cnn.com]
That's unfortunate, Fahey. In high school, I had an english teacher who was instead obsessed with being only 4 years older than me, funny, witty, smart, and gorgeous.
I miss high school...
Also, that cake looks so delicious and moist.
@jayntampa:
Nice. XD
Anyone else think that cake is on a pretty sweet plate? I mean, as far as plates go, that's a pretty awesome one.
@jayntampa: So thats why I suck at baseball. ):
i could make that cake disappear, pass me a fork.
sloppy tounge work...wwwwWwwwwwwwWW
Looks nice, but it looks like it's got a really hard hard layer of icing on it, you know...that really sugary-not-soft shell of a thing called icing.
That alone has me turned off to the Boo.....now if this was an upside down pineapple cake in a homeage to Sunshine....meh...who am I kidding. I'd eat the hell out of it, with no sloppy tounge work.
I dunno, I like a little sloppy tongue...
Oh yeah, this cake looks awesome too.
Love the tongue inuendo ;)
Not content with merely finding death in every book, I had a teacher who actually decided that the use of the color red meant death in "Grapes of Wrath", only to tell us that the color black meant the same thing barely three chapters later. She had a bit of a problem if you ask me.
In other news though, this is the best game cake I've seen in a while! Awesome job!
The ladies LOVE my tonguework ;)
It looks like pizza dough.
That story about your teacher reminds me of my girlfriend, who can explain how every piece of art created by a woman is about one or more vaginas. Turns out chicks WORSHIP their privates. More than men, even. Who knew?
@Honus_W_Scruggs: Blasphemer.
its fondant
this cake was so effing tasty. almond filling, sandwiched between two layers of chocolate cake that was borderline brownie, and coconut cheesecake icing covered in a thin layer of marshmallow fondant.
the nose is a coconut butter bun. *salivates
more photos
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Spoiler: English teachers are nutso
lot's of things do symbolize death, though. Sunshine. Butterflies. Rocks. Lettuce. It's everywhere.
@Honus_W_Scruggs: I don't worship my vagina. Actually I'm not too fond of it. All it's brought me is suffering and pain...and since I respect the male population at Kotaku I'll leave it at that.
Back on Topic: That cake is pretty well done. That tongue is amazing. I wouldn't mind Mario using that thing on me. At first I thought the plate was apart of the actual cake.
@TheDollHouse: i'm so with you, hon.
re cake: i think it looks AWESOME, although a little strange, since it's all fondant.. and what happened? did a boo gobble mario and...become him? or vice versa? or...
At first glance I thought the tongue was his arm and the mustache his hand. it looked like he had that hand over the mouth, deep in thought, look to it. then I read and realized it was a tongue.
I'm a dork.
the death cake is a lie
Ah, I didn't realize the tongue folded over onto the plate. I'm not sure how I missed that.
@TheDollHouse: "Actually I'm not too fond of it... I wouldn't mind Mario using that thing on me."
Sounds like you have conflicting interests. :P
...Not to make light of whatever scars your past; only of the bait that ellipses so kindly highlight.
@TheDollHouse: @geekgrrl: With respect, I'm willing to accept the possibility of exceptions and outliers and whatnot, so you can consider yourselves fully exempted from my rash generalization.
Actually, I understand most women feel the way you do, which makes the artistic obsession all the more mystifying.
*insert Portal reference here*
long live the game cakes! =D
@Heliophage: It's sounds like you're a little confused on what I was talking about sweetheart. ;)
On Topic: Looking at that cake again I can feel myself getting diabetes. It looks so sugary!
I had a professor like that.
In one of my lit classes.
It didn't matter what we read, she always found symbolism for her favorite theme.
Essentially if a woman wrote it, the tale was symbolic triumph for womens liberation.
If a man wrote it, it was misogynistic propaganda to keep the woman down.
Lucky me ... I was one of only 2 guys in my class.
Myself, and I'm sure my male classmate as well, now know what it feels like to be exclusively blamed for all the worlds ills.
@SolCutter: Seems about right. Mine made us read books about old ladies hitting on/sleeping with young men, and she was about 60 or so...just old enough to make it really creepy.
So where is the bee mario cake? Cake-makers GO!
all we need is a hammer bro. cake to complete the Nintendo All Star Cake Race! :)
@TheDollHouse:
I'm not. If you didn't have 'it', his tongue would be useless 'on you'. Or so by my interpretation.
We're not quite on the same wavelength, it seems, but at least we both know what we were talking about on our own side of the interweb.
Someday... Someday soon, the Kotaku Cake archive will overtake "GameCakes.com". Until then, we wait.
@TheDollHouse:
Sweetheart? No offense and sorry to say this but you two, this isn't the Red Light District.
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