This weeks grand experiment: How much can I be like Andy Council? He provided several suggestions (which is awesome!) one of which was: “Godzilla or a dinosaur made of cakes”. Trying to figure out how to pile pastries so that they looked like a dinosaur was a real challenge. Which is something that I took for granted, Mr. Council does it to such affect that it appears easy. I gave a crack at it anyway:
It’s not that easy to see the details, but it’s just a pile of cakes that are supposed to resemble a Parasaurolophus. Heck, if you think it’s hard to see here, look at the B&W version:
Just so you know, a Parasaurolophus is supposed to look like: 
So try and picture the Paracakeolophus in that frame. It might help. Maybe. Oh yeah, that notch in the back? It’s something that the position of the cake dinosaur is supposed to be using. The skeleton of the Parasaurolophus has a notch in it that paleontologists infer was meant to hold up the massive crest when the dinosaur was making calls. Does it make me a nerd for thinking that is awesome? No, because that IS awesome.
Something that I did not anticipate this being: a culinary educational experience. When I was trying to think of different cakes I was coming up with: birthday cake, and that’s where I flat-lined. A list of cakes helped me out, and taught me about some I’d never heard of. Speciffically there was the Battenberg cake and the Croquembouche!:
I don’t even understand how this cake works.
Well, here’s the middle which is just a pile of delectable cakes: 
The tail is a supposed to be bakery shelves, the neck is a wedding cake- nothing to call home about. But working in this middle section? This is what made me ridiculously hungry.
The challenges of this piece was foremost it’s construction, and secondly the color choice. If I really wanted to make this piece more readable I would have tried to stick with one main color and then vary the shades. I couldn’t bring myself to not give the different cakes luminous icings, so the piece loses some cohesiveness. The biggest error is the white wedding cake on a white background. Any other color would have helped the illusion that you’re looking at a dinosaur, but then there was my own cake preferences. To me, wedding cakes are white. What I could do is color the background….but hey, look there’s this other picture to post!
This was a second suggestion from Mr. Council: “Godzilla and King Kong sat on seats made of sky scrapers getting drunk from lager being drank out of torn in half 747’s”. I love it when suggestions make me laugh out loud. I gave myself a couple hours to crank this out, and it shows. Whatever. It was a ridiculously fun couple of hours – King Kong and Godzilla have completely decimated NY in a drunken bash. That’s a good time.
Looking over the post I don’t know how to feel about what the computer thinks I’ve spelled wrong. “Parasuarolophus” was classified in 1922, almost a hundred years ago, and that is underlined red. But then there’s Godzilla, and that’s spelled correctly. Hmm. I’m feeling some paleontologist prejudice here.
Thanks for stopping!