Sunday
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Sunday Sweets: Steampunk
October 11, 2009 If you don't know what Steampunk is, I highly recommend you do some web surfing to find out. Just make sure you have several hours to spare; I guarantee you'll find some aspect of this style to fall in love with.
Anyway, this past week the Great White Snark beat me to the clockwork punch by posting a gorgeous Steampunk cake. So in retribution (why yes, I am that petty) I shall now trump his post by featuring several gorgeous steampunk cakes. Hah! Take that, Snarky-boy!
First, a sweetly feminine Steampunk butterfly:
(Submitted by Delaney A. & made by Sprinkles Custom Cakes)Next, here's one inspired by a Penny Arcade game:
I love the rich simplicity of this one:
Check out the sweet detailing:
(Submitted by Juliette W., originally posted by The Steampunk Workshop, & made by babycakes. [More pics at the Steampunk link])It's hard to believe this next one is actually cake:
(By Eric Woller of MeMe's Treat Boutique. More pics here.)A consumable copper cake cephalopod. Excellent.
Here's a spectacular groom's cake:
(From BillGlover's Flickr stream, & made by Bronwen Weber)One more view - just 'cuz it's so darn cool:
Do you have a cake you'd like to nominate for Sunday Sweets? Then e-mail it to me at Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.
- Similar Sweets: (Dr.) Horrible Sunday Sweets
- Similar Sweets: (Dr.) Horrible Sunday Sweets
Reader Comments (97)
I don't have a clue as to who/what Steampunk is (and I don't have a large chunk of time right now to search it out), BUT, I do know pretty cakes when I see them! Gosh, love the one with all the gears! Is it really all edible?
Sunday Sweets is an amazing feature to view . . . just love it!
I'm a mechanical engineer, and all these gears just made my day!
As a steampunk goddess, I hardily approve.
Thank you! I love Steampunk and these cakes are amazing.
Love me that butterfly...and the groom's cake at the end looks a bit like a modified Dalek!
coooool - I never imagined steampunk cakes. these are brilliant!
Tremendously hip!
Hear hear! My mouth literally dropped open when I saw these.
Love steampunk. LOVE.
Two thing I really like. Steampunk and Cakes, Woo Hoo!
That last one looks like a Dalek as envisioned my a steam punk artist.
I only recently discovered Steampunk, but I love it. And wow. Those cakes are AMAZING. I'd have never thought of steampunk cake! I'm linking this post to a few friends who I know will appreciate it. :)
Mike McCarey = God of Cakes.
I'm still squeeing like a teenage girl to be able to see him judging at the Austin cake show in a few months: http://thattakesthecake.org/
I feel like having him as a judge means I need to make my entry that much better. His kind of talent inspires others to greatness.
Our first stop last weekend, ok it was an hour the wrong way, on our planned road trip to KC was to Arcon in IL. This year's theme to the con was steam punk! The costumes were incredible, should have had one of these cakes there. Got some great pics of wonderful costumes. Also got a great pic of my girls with Peter Mayhew .. not steam punk but still way cool. Oh don't tell me you don't know who HE is? Only Chewbacca himself!
Thanks to today's posting I can now get my steampunk friend's hooked on your blog!
I make custom jewelry and Steampunk is all the rage. My favorite things to work with are found objects...particularly those with a grungy or old timey edge...skeleton keys are my main motif and they are fascinating to me. I also use watch gears and door hardware.... I like to mix the old with the new... but I would never have thought about using that as a theme for a cake! And gorgeous ones I might add. I love Cake Wrecks and glad to hear that things are going better for you! Enjoy the day! Erin
6th photo down, the wedding cake. I don't know who the baker is, but the cake topper came from http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5130230" rel="nofollow">Builder's Studio on Etsy. I love their stuff!
Mind-blowingly cool cakes!
But is that shiny metallic stuff edible? If so, what is it?
*Squeels like a little girl* I love steampunk and these cakes are just too neat ^-^
I love the details and all the gears!
Looks very Verneian.
Wow, those are amazing. I'm going to have to go look up what this steampunk stuff is about!
Those are amazing!
I totally want one.
Steampunk! Steampunk! Steampunk!! You have made my week!!
Those are AWESOME!!!! I *love* the steampunk look--I'm trying to figure out how to mod my laptop into steampunk, in fact. But I digress.
These cakes are ome of the coolest things I have seen since the Star Wars cakes a while back.
Oh I love steampunk! Beautiful cakes.
That said, Jen, I want you to know this site is having a horrible effect on me. My husband and I were talking about things we couldn't have and I responded with, "I want sprinkles."
Clever as they are, all that metallic icing is making my amalgam fillings hurt. Like when you missed a bit of tinfoil off the KitKat wrapper. Ouch!
I am one of your Twitter Followers, @amazinglyamara . Thanks so much for the steampunk cake review. In Seattle we are having a Steampunk convention soon: www.steamcon.com and I am sure the community is going to love it. If you find any gothic lolita cakes www.innocenteseraphim.com would love to hear about that!
Don't know about you all, but if the last one (Pseudo-Dalek-looking) starts yelling "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate", I'm outa here!
LOL!
I'd NEVER heard of "Steampunk" until I began looking at the multitudes of offerings on Etsy. I love the idea of it all!
omg, those are SOOO cool!
There are a lot of SteamPunk things (not cakes) on etsy too - www.etsy.com - that's where I found out about it!
I've never heard of Steampunk (will have to google this afternoon), but those cakes are really cool! :)
I have never heard of Steampunk either, but man these cakes are fabulous!
Very cool looking, but metal and gears just don't look appetizing to me!
Gorgeous! Kind of reminds me of the musical Wicked...which might be a fun Sunday Sweet.
Hmm . . . well, I would have classified all these cakes as wrecks, so this week is gonna feel extra wrecky with no Sunday Sweets to punctuate it. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Thanks for posting my cake :) I've been planning to do another, larger and more elaborate steampunk cake sometime soon - maybe I'll get lucky and see it on here someday ;)
The metallic stuff is a paint made with edible luster dust and a bit of grain alcohol. It can also just be brushed on as powder for a more delicate sheen.
amazing! i don't know what they are, but, amazing all the same.
very cool cakes!
I adore the Steampunk aesthetic but am very much against the idea of slapping some gears onto something and calling it Steampunk...
That said, some of these cakes are lovely. Others just sort of say "Meh, it's got gears.... It's Steampunk, right?".
wow, I love steampunk style and am amazed at these cakes!!
Whoa!! I am blown away by the wood & copper "finishes" on those cakes. Holy moly!!
After years of being afraid to google steampunk, because I was afraid of being sucked in for hours and having my world changed, cake finally inspired me to do it!! So very cool.
Yeah, it makes my teeth hurt, too!
It just occurred to me that truly good bakers are actually always on the cutting edge. They have to be, to create cakes for birthdays and weddings featuring the next great thing.
Edgy Bakers sounds like a good name for a band.
This was brilliant, I love love love Steampunk, you don't need to twist my arm to go research more of those cakes/pictures, and now I absolutely have to make a steampunk cake.. Just when I thought I couldn't love CakeWrecks any stronger, you go on and do things like that...
I'm being an airship pilot for halloween, and this post was very inspiring! Thank you so much for posting wonderful steampunky goodness.
OMG STEAMPUNK CAKES!!! This is just beyond awesome ^__^
Those were really cool.
I saw that third cake sometime ago on the internet. These are gorgeous cakes. Although the last one makes me snicker. A groom's cake, eh? With WHAT on top? Hmmm? HMMMMM??? *snicker*
This is so WEIRD!! I never post (although I am an avid follower) But I was going to forward the "gears" cake to you and here it is! LOVE Steampunk, and LOVE this blog!
Right on time to celebrate the release of Scott Westerfeld's new book "Leviathan"! It's YA steampunk and it's awesome -- fabricated beasties! Flying whales! Clankers! Four-legged trucks!
Read it!
Well, I mainly detest steam punk (it's goth with clocks, aka anti-style, to me) but these cakes certainly exhibit a lot of skill.
Jen, I love you for bringing hard core geek-dom to a bigger audience. A Penny Arcade cake!! Eeeee!
ever made a kingcake?