Kotaku: baking

Nintendo Cake Pans

Kim Phu — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:40:00 MDT

Oh how it rains in Amsterdam. So much so that there is really not much to do but to sit in my kitchen and think about baked goods. Strawberry Pikachu Cake sounds like a lovely dessert to serve to guests, but how to get it into the Pikachu shape? Why, with Nintendo shaped cake tins, of course! These two bad boys are available at various online locations, and you can't say that they don't inspire you to pull out a Martha Stewart annual or two and make something Nintendolly delicious. I'm toying with the idea of baking both cakes and switching the heads. Kim Phu

Food for Though Nintendo Cake Pans [The Tanooki]

More Damn Cakes

Mike Fahey — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:40:22 MST

Okay people, apparently we are going a bit cake crazy as of late. I am scared to open my inbox for fear of cake spilling out all over the place, making me spend hours scraping frosting off of press releases and screenshots. Take this one, for instance, from Kotakuite Adam's wedding rehearsal dinner.

Nicely shaped, good attention to detail. The only thing that could improve this one is if it was a birthday cake and the candles were inside the cartridge slot, which you would then have to open and blow into in order to have all of your birthday wishes come true. Still think a better choice would have been the Snes, because then you could use a buttercream frosting with a little caramelized sugar on top to simulate yellowing plastic...damn it. Now you've got me doing it too.

Soon I'll end up like Bonnie over at Heroine Sheik, who has been reduced to obsessively creating game cake mosaics. I picture her rocking manically back and forth in her head as she cuts and pastes again and again, chanting "cakes!" and giggling in a broken sort of way. Michael Fahey

Wii Love Cake

Brian Crecente — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:01:32 MDT

Marc writes that his lovely wife whipped him up this surprise birthday cake in the shape of a big, fat, tasty Wii-mote. Save the corner piece for me. Brian Crecente

Let Them Eat Delicious Mario Cake!

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:21:58 MDT

Semi-famous Kotaku reader and Master Chef Rakka Deer sent in her latest baked creation, a Super Mario Bros-style Mario!

You may remember her previous efforts, including the yummy Katamari cake, the delish DS cake and the recent Intellivision intell-cake.

Man, am I hungry. Michael McWhertor

Rakka Deer's Flickr Stream

Rakka Deer Bakes Intellivision Cake

brownlee — Thu, 18 May 2006 13:40:12 MDT

Reader DBW wrote us in response to our More Retro Baking post, Kotakuite DBW pointed out that Rakka Deer — that sweetly-scented exotic blossom who baked the Centipede string of cupcakes and opium-like entranced us — did him the favor of baking him an Intellivision cake to help promote his book >Lucky Wander Boy... which is also frostily edible.

With my junta of velvet-clad friends swirling brandy goblets about in musty libraries while smoking latakia in ponderous meerschaums and politely chuckling over quotations from Trollope, I have clearly been gallavanting about in the wrong social circles. - Florian Eckhardt

as finished as it's gonna' get! [Flickr]
Previously: More Retro Baking

More Retro Baking!

brownlee — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:40:08 MDT

The improbably named Rakka Deer sent us a link to her great Flickr photoset featuring some enthusiastic and charming attempts at immortalizing classic game characters in cupcakes and pies. Not only she baked the chain of Centipede cupcakes above (or to the right, I guess... this new widescreen template is so damn unpredictable), but a Pac-Man cupcake, a Space Invaders apple pie and Tetris cookies.

Oh! And Katamari Cake! A woman who can bake and plays video games? Love of our life, fire of our loins. - Florian Eckhardt