Comments on: The Top Five Awful R2-D2 Cakes – Geeky Cake of the Week

By: 2wm

2wm — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:29:42 +0000

#5 looks like a cross between mr. bill, r2d2 and a dildo.

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:56:02 +0000

@Iris: It must be lonely not getting the joke, grandma.

By: Iris

Iris — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:59:40 +0000

I dunno. If someone made me a cake in the shape of something I liked, I wouldn’t care if it didn’t look picture-perfect. I couldn’t do any better than any of these cakes, which were at least made with love.

I think your minds are oversaturated with processed images, so you think these perfectly servicable things are crappy because they don’t match the airbrushed and CGI’d things you’d see on television.

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By: Mara

Mara — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:07:49 +0000

betcha #4 is a vegan cake… very shallow and bland-erific…/bleah/

By: Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:48:07 +0000

So, slightly unrelated, I had lofty goals (much like the above cake-decorators’ lofty goals) of making a cake that was a Delorean, because we were having a Back to the Future themed birthday party (that’s right. joint party with myself. I made my own birthday cake.)

Then I realized that I had absolutely no skill whatsoever.

So. While it is terribly embarrassing to show this off, I can’t resist throwing this into the ring.

Enjoy. http://flickr.com/photos/rhiannononon/2585593716/in/set-72157605655109265/

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:19:01 +0000

Okay, as the recipient of number 5—that’s my post you snagged the pic from—I have to say that there were legs; unfortunately, it proved difficult to attach them for structural reasons. My lovely friend Kristen made this cake for me for my birthday in her spare time—she’s off getting her certificate in bakery and pastries at the Culinary Institute of America now, so I think her cake-making skills are actually pretty darn good. Plus, you didn’t even show the back, which reads “I <3 Wookies”. Come on! Thoroughness!

Oh, and need I mention, most importantly, that the cake was delicious.

By: nickolai

nickolai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:24:59 +0000

That MF cake was amazing, no doubt. But alls I’m saying is that if you give that cake to him when he’s 4, how do you top that when he turns 5, then 6, 7, 10, 13, etc.?

By the time he’s 10, there’s no cake you could give him that wouldn’t disappoint his by-then spoiled arse. So why dig yourself into that hole?

And aesthetically, something about cake #1 just speaks to me.

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:10:57 +0000

Nickolai, I don’t think you’re giving four-year-olds enough credit for having discerning tastes.

Or perhaps you don’t remember the demanding little muggle from last week who got the Millennium Falcon cake?

By: nickolai

nickolai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:07:01 +0000

I refuse to back down. I clicked through to the source site, and the recipient kid of cake #1 looks plenty happy with his R2 cake.

In fact, I’ll go one further, and say that any 4-year old should be freaking ecstatic to receive ANY of these cakes. Any more effort invest into a 4YO’s cake is wasted. Context matters.

If my wife were to present one of these cakes to me on my 30th birthday, though, that’s a different story altogether…