Sunday Sweets: Simply Awwww-full
October 18, 2009 If you've read this blog for any length of time then you know that my interests can be, well, a little geeky.
Ok, fine. A LOT geeky.
However, just because I enjoy quoting Monty Python and polishing my Star Trek collectibles doesn't mean I don't have my girly side. Fact is, I'm a total sucker for the cute. So today, allow me to present a lineup of cakes so stinkin' adorable that I've melted right here in my chair, and am now typing this with puddle fingers.
(Submitted by Isabella, baker unknown)What, or who, is it? No idea. But with its lethal adorableness, it must be Japanese.
(Submitted by Andrew H., & made by Bleeding Heart Bakery)These little guys are meringue candies, and I want the whole set, on my desk, NOW:
(Found on CaptainXO's Flickr, & made by Ginza's Cozy Corner Bakery [in Japan, of course])Especially the little dog with the green ears. So. Cute.
I've been in love with this next cake since the moment I stumbled across it nearly 2 years ago:
(Made by Flickr user HyperCraftive)Here's a cutie-patootie turtle:
(Made by Jessica of its-a-piece-of-cake.)
(Submitted by Elarael B. & made by Kylie of Le Cupcake.)Have a cake to nominate for Sunday Sweets? Then send it to me at Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.
- Similar Sweets: Off-the-Shelf Cuteness
Reader Comments (108)
SLIIIIIME! KILL IT! *kills it for like two XP*
aww v.v
Maple Story got crappy though. meh
love, love, LOVE that turtle!
So Cute!
BTW Today is natonal cupcake day
Sooo...Happy Cupcake day!!!
Hello Jen! I'm a long time lurker, first time commenter! I love your blog, and so does my mom. We have snorted, giggled, laughed, cried and nearly wet ourselves while reading!
I'm commenting today however, because much like you, I too, am a nerd. I am more of the Star Wars/Computer/Anime kind of nerd, but you get the picture. However, I too, melted when I saw these cakes! That owl is just amazing, and I think I may try and recreate one for a friend's birthday! And I think I might want that cupcake for my next birthday ...
Love the little green guy at the top, and the turtle is totally cute.. but the cupcake is kinda creepy!
WV: exuadoic: which is something I might say to my ex: you a doic!!
I should have recognized the Maple Story slime, but I was ready to say it was a Poporing from Ragnarok Online. orz.
The flowers and design on the Hello Kitty cake is totally cute, but HK herself looks a little... off.
"Why does Japan lead the world in all things cute, anyway? "
Because they're not ashamed to be kind :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
I actually suspect that Number 2 is not a cupcake, but is a full size cake fashioned into the shape of a cupcake (which is why the "paper casing" looks like icing).
Brilliantly done, and of course brings a new definition to the dreaded CCC.
Here's the only info I could find on the Maple Story cake:
http://fatcatlim.livejournal.com/191479.html
I had my dad's wife make my 26th birthday cake after this cake. This is how her's turned out:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/leahfu/yummycake.jpg
Hi John and Jen
Love the site and am an avid (but until now silent) reader. Just wanted to point out that the link to Kylie's hello kitty cake at le cupcake is actually to an American site of same name. Kylie Lambert is Australian and the corect link is
http://lecupcake.blogspot.com/
Hope the rest of the tour goes well and that the additional stint in hospital was not too serious.
Thanks
Ashley S.
I think the first cake is from pokemon...ADORABLE!
I don't like meringue, but those little animals are too cute to eat anyway!
the little creatures remind me of Weebl's videos (come to kenya, etc)
Too cute to eat!
I have to say that something is wrong with Hello Kitty's face. Very wrong. It does not look like Hello Kitty - close, but not quite.
All real beauties...except the Hello Kitty...looks like she was put in a stretcher...those little animals are perfection !
The turtle cake is too cute! I melted into a gooey pile of girliness when I saw it.
My mother had an owl JUST LIKE THAT on a matching dishtowel and cutting board set -- in 1973. Definitely disco era stuff.
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
heh heh heh.....
had to do it!
**well it was either that or "It is now time for the penquin on top of your television to explode." BOOM!!!**
Is it wrong to want to snuggle a cake? Because I doooooooo.
I dunno if this has been established yet, but the 2nd cake has a design by acrylicana of deviantart (acrylicana.deviantart.com)
Great cakes! I have awarded you the Honest Scrap award! :-)
http://pa-dutch-travel.blogspot.com/
I have to agree about Hello Kitty not being right. The eyes are too low and close spaced and the whiskers too close to the nose. I guess if someone is not a fan they might not notice and it looks "close enough".
They are all cute. But that giant cupcake is creeping me out! I think it wants to eat me. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who is creeped by it. It's still cute, mind you.
I wonder if cakes are scared of us for wanting to eat them?
Love the turtle!!!
The first one is from a movie called CJ-7! It's not a pokemon or one of those maplestory things.
It's one of my daughter's favorite movies, I will have to show it to her!
My first comment to this blog, though I read it frequently.
I absolutely love the Slime cake, and since I met my SO on MapleStory, it would be way too tempting to have a wedding cake just like that!
so cute!!! I love them all, that owl is darling
i can tell you that the first one is an enemy called a slime from an online game called maplestory. i used to play that game :3
aah, good times. gooood times...
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
I'm not gay to think these are adorably cute.
OMG! I opened my New York Times book review and there you were! I am so freakin proud of you both. What an exciting journey this is! I know it sounds silly, but I just kept thinking, "I know them!" . How cool is all of this? What a blessing you are!
Wreck On!
Ariel in West Palm Beach
Umm... so the droopy eyed cupcake is less cute and more creepy in my opinion
The little "dog with the green ears" looks a lot like one from this little anime for young kids in Japan. It's about dogs and they all have different pastries or tea-leaves for ears. I wish I could remember what it's called...
From the comments I see that the first one is a character from an online game, but at first it reminded me of a Puuchuu from Excel Saga. I wonder if there are any Puuchuu cakes? Hmmm...they are also terminally adorable, capable of making grown men stop in their tracks and moan, "Soooo....cuuuute..."
Or a Menchi cake. OH heavens. That would be ironic, since a Menchi is not only a cute animal but also an emergency food source! (also from Excel Saga)
/geek
I like the HK cake (Kitty-chan fan here) but the owl has stolen my heart. That would be an adorable baby shower cake! (and normally I don't like owls)
I'm sure 5 million people have said this by now, but it's a MapleStory slime and when I first saw that I was excited thinking the whole thing was going to feature cakes representing that simple, repetitive and yet wildly addictive game. Ha, can I put in a request for that? (Are there enough MapleStory-related cakes? Hmm...perhaps some bad ones. Have you done bad video/computer game cakes?)
That turtle is just the cutest thing!! I love it!
The first cake is from something Korean, not Japanese! Change the text! lol.
Yeah 1st one is MapleStory, cutest game, ever. Awesome cake. Half tempted to get something similar for my wedding now. >_>
Sorry, Cupcake, but you're too creepy. Maybe the angle shot is all wrong, but the cherry looks a pair of butt cheeks.
Otherwise (supersonic squeal) the rest are awfully darn cute.
Monty Python FTW!!! I'm gonna watch like 4 episodes of Flying Circus tonight :D
Love the little animals!
The slime could also come from Ragnarok Online. Most Korean based games have slimes like that as monsters. In RO, it's called a "poporing", and pink ones are called "Porings".
the cupcake and the hello kitty cakes are so not sweet, more like wrecks... well the cupcake more freaky then wreaky. the hello kitty one is horrid, sure the cake is cute but the baker so didn't know how to shape a hello kitty head... or maybe the baker was going for a 'special ed' cousin of hello kitty? *shakes head*
So cute! I just want to gobble them up. Good thing that's the point :) BTW, SO excited you're coming to Atlanta now!!
MapleStory is Korean, not Japanese. Please change it.
LaurenH said...
I'm sure 5 million people have said this by now, but it's a MapleStory slime and when I first saw that I was excited thinking the whole thing was going to feature cakes representing that simple, repetitive and yet wildly addictive game. Ha, can I put in a request for that?
I'm sure someone has at least done Zakum (probably the 2nd best known MS character)... and probably very badly considering the level of detail needed.
That aside, video game goodness is a great idea. I'd love to see a sheet cake (of the complete tv screen view) while fighting something in the original dragon warrior. Old-school games make great (or wreck-tastic ^^) 2d cakes
I'm with the other Hello Kitty fans...she's not quite right. Her hands and feet look swollen, her head is too small, and the facial features are all wrong.
Love the rest though, especially those little meringue candies.
Heh, I was totally wrong; I thought the first one was a Pokemon. One of the new ones I don't care about.
CAKE = SUGAR
and this is SUGAR in form of HELLO KITTY!!!!!!!!!
SO DAMN AWESOME!!! *SQUEALS*
When I was a kid I had orange and fuschia bird sheets that looked something like that awesome bird cake.