This may be the coolest thing I've ever done

[coldcut]

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Long story short, a co-worker is looking for Spider-man cakes for her 5-year-old's birthday party. She's got a fair number of pictures of really crappy Spider-man cakes which are really, really overpriced, and seeing as I have a very boring job and a background in creative design, I might have said out loud that I could make a better cake than anything that the stores were doing.

So here's the proof. Suck on it, Kroger's.

Weirdly enough, a whole lot of experimentation went into this. I went through two or three different icings, three raspberry/chocolate glazes and a cream cheese frosting before I settled on the strawberry glaze.

[Krypto]

That's pretty awesome. What kind of cake is it? Chocolate, yellow, etc.

[coldcut]

It's white cake with a whole lot of butter. I started off with chocolate cake and a white filling thinking that it would be kind of a "Venom inside" theme. But the red glazing wasn't bright enough set against the chocolate background. Probably tasted better, though.

This is the proto-cake:

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Look, let's just say that in real life that spider had to bite a lot of dudes who mutated into horrible monsters before it nailed Peter.

[Krypto]

Hahaha, looks pretty tasty. I'm a fan of that cake gel stuff though, I wonder how that would've tasted.

[iggy880]

So you got a few left over, at least pretty good cakes eh....I wants one, cake sounds so good becuase we have like nothing here and Spidey cake sounds/looks awesome

[Moon Jump]

Lookin' good Cut! You did a great job with the cake. It came out really good! Hopefully everybody will like the cake.

As I was looking at that I thought of the show on Food Network, Ace of Cakes. Do you know each of those cakes cost FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS?! And that's the starting price!

http://www.charmcitycakes.com/index2.html

They do nice work, but as you found out, with a little trial and error you can make it look nice!

[Stalking Shadow]

I dunno, those charm city cakes look like they were made with foam. I'm not particularly interested in eating foam. I want cake.

Yours, coldcut, looks fantastic! Way better than safeway sheet cake with the design printed on there with some sort of ungodly dye that makes your birthday look and taste like lose and fail.

[Malibu Sally]

Yours, coldcut, looks fantastic! Way better than safeway sheet cake with the design printed on there with some sort of ungodly dye that makes your birthday look and taste like lose and fail.
Ooo. Looks like someone had a bad supermarket cake experience.:p

[Gaia]

Very cool cake! I love the over all look! Good idea to use the gels too. :) Did you freeze the cakes before icing? I found out about that in a cake class I took once. (mom wanted me to learn to ice and design cakes at one point.)

On Ace of Cakes that show is awsome! I watch it as much as I can. And none of the cakes that guy builds is foam. On one he did a huge replica of the Washington Monument. They had to put up a scaffold just so he could ice the thing.

As for bakeries. I've found the two best here are Jaciva's (they also make killer choclates and chocolate boxes) which I used for my wedding. And the other is Haagen's. The bakers there are so nice and accomodating. They have put up with some pretty weird requests from my kids for their birthday parties. (Hogwarts castle out of cupcakes and last year's dirt, grass, rocks and gummy worms for a mad scientist party). I seriously dislike safeway's cakes after the last birthday one my mom bought for me there. They forgot to mix in the icing colors!

[iggy880]

Very cool cake! I love the over all look! Good idea to use the gels too. :) Did you freeze the cakes before icing? I found out about that in a cake class I took once. (mom wanted me to learn to ice and design cakes at one point.)

On Ace of Cakes that show is awsome! I watch it as much as I can. And none of the cakes that guy builds is foam. On one he did a huge replica of the Washington Monument. They had to put up a scaffold just so he could ice the thing.

As for bakeries. I've found the two best here are Jaciva's (they also make killer choclates and chocolate boxes) which I used for my wedding. And the other is Haagen's. The bakers there are so nice and accomodating. They have put up with some pretty weird requests from my kids for their birthday parties. (Hogwarts castle out of cupcakes and last year's dirt, grass, rocks and gummy worms for a mad scientist party). I seriously dislike safeway's cakes after the last birthday one my mom bought for me there. They forgot to mix in the icing colors!

Best cakes come from a private baker, its a fact, but super market and such is pretty much crap, best you can get there is an ice cream cake by Carvel or something.

In my home town, or at least a few towns or so off there was a place called like The Conditomeister or something I'm pretty sure thats it but that place was great.

[thebluecanary]

You know, that is one very cool cake. Let us know how the kid liked it.

So what should I have my g/f make for me for my birthday? She used to design cakes for a very long time. Now she teaches the little children, as they cuss and sware at her. Oh I am so glad she is on summer break. Much nicer person....

mmmmmm cake. Damn I want cake now.

very cool either way.

[Solario]

Yours, coldcut, looks fantastic! Way better than safeway sheet cake with the design printed on there with some sort of ungodly dye that makes your birthday look and taste like lose and fail.

Heh. Thanks for giving me my first laugh of the week, I needed that.

And the cake looks absolutely aces, Coldcut. I'm glad you didn't go for Venom though, I'm not a big fan of liquorice icecream after an incident with an awful Batman icecream.

[Dynamo-Man]

That's awesome, man. Reminds me of the time I did a Barney one for my daughter's 2nd birthday. Turned out great, but I was never happier to cut into a cake with a big knife. :lol:

[Charon]

And the cake looks absolutely aces, Coldcut. I'm glad you didn't go for Venom though, I'm not a big fan of liquorice icecream after an incident with an awful Batman icecream.
They make Batman Ice cream? :yoy:

[Malibu Sally]

They make Batman Ice cream? :yoy:
Probably a very dark and bitter flavor. :P