Sunday Sweets: It's a Jungle Out There!
April 14, 2013 Hello, and welcome to our Sunday Sweets Photo Safari! Please keep your hands and feet inside the bus and please, no flash photography.
If we're lucky, we'll see at least a few wild animals today...
Look, over there! The King of Beasts, surveying his domain! Go ahead, grab some pictures. Mrs. Stevens, remember to turn off your...
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... flash.
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(AAAIIIEEEEEE!!!)
Yeah, flash can -- uh -- agitate the animals. Got that now? Cool.
Let's move on, so Leo can calm down a little.
To our left, you'll see a gazelle! Look at him run!
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By ANe Cakes
(All handpainted...)
Oh, and also off to the left, you'll see Kilroy.
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He likes to let us know he was here.
Everybody wave to Kilroy!
(Hi Kilroy!)
Now, everybody look around. Kilroy usually hangs out with... yep! There they are!
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Giraffes! And yes, he is cute, Mrs. Stevens, but you can't keep him.
Why?
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By Kandy Cakes
Well, he already has a Mom. (D'awwww.)
You wouldn't want to keep this guy, anyway. He looks pretty fierce!
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By Tiger Lily Cakes
No, Mrs. Stevens. He's really not "just a big, ol' kitty cat." Fortunately he's sleepy now, though, so the other animals are out.
See, look, the zebras are making an appearance! By those flowering bushes, there.
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By Cake Central member ycKnits
They usually come out this time of day to drink at the watering hole. They'll drink as soon as the hippos leave.
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By KD Creations
Ah, there they go now! No, Mrs. Stevens, they don't want a sandwich. Put that away.
Look! Up there in the trees! I thought we might see some monkeys today!
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By Cake Girls
Ok, who brought the crate of bananas?
Mrs. Stevens? REALLY?
Well, this is a rare treat! Here comes a rhino!
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Submitted by Jenn L., made by Highland Bakery
That horn means business, though, so we're going to give this guy a wide berth.
Well, let's head on back. You've had an exceptional photo safari today! Usually, we see just two or three animals, and they're generally pretty shy. Today...
What? Look behind me? Why?
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By Cake Central member Karen Padilla
Alright, now they're just messing with us. Time to leave, folks.
But first, Mrs. Stevens, if you would please open your purse?
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A-HA! I knew it!
I think Animal Planet wants a word with you, ma'am.
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Reader Comments (38)
Love the Kilroy reference, Sharyn!
So amazing. I love them all, and Highland Bakery...How? That rhino is incredible.
..but how can you bring yourself to eat any of them?
There is NO WAY that phone in the last one is real!
D'awwww :D
Now I want to go to the Wild Animal Park in San Diego. D:
Some of these "sweets" look awfully similar to wrecks.
Emma, how you could even begin to consider any of these to be wrecks astonishes me. They are all superlative works of edible art!
I love love love the giraffe ones! When MiniMe was little her grandma would read a book with her about zoo animals. That's how she learned a bunch of animal sounds. Well, none of us know what sound a giraffe makes so he ended up with a "long looong neck". MiniMe had a problem with her L's so it always came out "Y'on y'on neck" I'll have to show her these Y'on necks :)
Great job Sharyn!
...truly awwww-inspring cakes...and a funny, funny narrative with a cute ending!! well done, Sharyn!! (By the way, if Mrs. Stevens needs a lawyer, I know a good firm....)
Sharyn, I love the cakes and I really love your writing!
The first lion is the most amazing cake that I have ever seen. I couldn't bear to cut it. I love the giraffe cakes, especially the mom and baby. Awww!
I can't pick a favorite (the giraffes with the butterfly? the monkeys??), but that little tiger on the second-to-last cake is breaking my heart with its cuteness.
My favorite is the "3 monkey's cake", because 1) the look like monkeys and 2) the bananas actually *look* like bananas. ;)
They're all amazing cakes, and I don't think I could eat any of them, either.
Cute post all around! Especially love the monkeys, and those adorable giraffes!
I love the cute animal one! So adorable I especially like the monkey in the golf cart
So, wait... is Mrs. Stevens the one who stole all the actual shows about animals from Animal Planet, then?
I'm trying to figure out why 16 year old Alice would want a granny purse with a lemur in it for her birthday cake?????
The monkeys are so adorable it is appropriate that they are made with sugar! Their facial expressions are killing me with cuteness.
I get so upset sometimes when you guys post all these amazing cakes--but they're all in fondant and the likes! That's not cake decorating; that's sugar art! Buttercreme is so much more difficult to work in but you still get beautiful work out of it. The only time we see buttercreme is as wrecks from (*insert grocery store here*)! ;_;
*boom*
my mind exploded from all the cutness!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
the HIPPO, people, the HIPPO!!
My only thing with these kind of cakes.. how can you eat them?! So adorable!! I dunno if I could just cut into something that cute. (.. ok yes I could, it IS cake here..let's not get Too concerned..lol)
These look nice but I immediately thought of the armadillo cake from Steel Magnolias and wondered how anyone could eat most of these.
Is that a lemur in the pocket book? I thought it was a meercat. Whatever it is, it's cute as a button, and I don't blame Mrs. Stevens for trying to keep it.
The purse in that last photo is a cake??? How is it even possible? I barely have the patience to throw a sandwich together. The Sunday Sweets always amaze me.
One of these animals doesn't belong :-)
Great job Sharyn.
I think that tree on Karen Padilla's cake is my favorite thing.
@Lady Kal: I agree. The only reason I can see that any of these would be wrecks is the same reason a well-crafted newborn cake is a wreck, which is the realism. Who wants to cut it up? (Realism, or the dead eyes that will suck out your soul, that is)
@Amy: Although there are plenty of buttercream Sweets on this site, I have now taken it as my personal mission to find some all buttercream Sweets to submit! This will involve lots of delicious research, but I am willing to make that sacrifice.
***"a" gazelle, not "an"
I don't want to "EPCOT" this, but there aren't any tigers in Africa.... unless they're in the zoo. But still didn't stop me from enjoying these fabulous cakes and your wonderful commentary!
Am I the only one who read this entire post in a sort of David Attenborough-ish voice in my head?
LOVE THE RHINO! We have a joke that my hubby is like a rhino, not much can stop him! It would be great to have a cake for him like that!
aww sweet Sunday Sweets!
but you don't get Tigers in Africa..
the Gazelle looks like a Springbok but the horns should be much longer..for a Rugby Union fan perhaps or a South African RU fan.
Gorgeous! Excellent commentary, Sharyn. Would this be in honor of Jen's previous job, many moon ago, of being a Jungle Skipper @ DisneyWorld? Just wondering... :-)
And I can't believe people are complaining about the gazelle! Or are they sayin' it's a different species & that 'gazelle' is technically incorrect? I hope it's the latter, because that is one gorgeous picture that I doubt few people commenting here could create, so they should just shut up!
(And yes, there are no tigers in Africe - totally get that, but when did this become an educational website?! Geesh, if I show this to my kids, I already know & I'll be sure to tell them, but I don't need a bunch of busy bodies doing it for me! Go tell Toys R Us to quit selling "Polar Packs" with polar bears & penguins in the same box *unless* they add a note specifying that said species live at different poles & will never meet!
My favourite Sunday Sweets post ever. Sharyn, your gentle style of writing is outstanding - as compelling as the sugar artistry, and a perfect foil to Jen's and John's needle-sharp, laugh-a-second wit.
I noticed the geographical artistic licence, but with cakes that amazing, who cares?
i keep debating with myself on whether or not that blackberry-type device in the last one is real. it looks real, but i have my doubts about the earbuds.
Delightful designs, for sure.
I am going to EPCOT this. Those are Savannah, not Jungle animals. Except the tiger. Unless its a Siberian tiger, then it lives in the tundra.
@KarateLady - no, there are no tigers native to Africa. There are asian tigers in a breeding program in South Africa.
It's a jungle out there
Disorder and confusion everywhere
No one seems to care
Well I do
Hey! Who's in charge here?
It's a jungle out there
Poison in the very air you breathe
Do you know what's in the water that you drink?
Well I do
And it's amazing
People think I'm crazy
I'm worried all the time
If you paid attention you'd be worried too
You'd better pay attention
Or this world we love so much
Might just kill you
I could be wrong now
But I don't think so
It's a jungle out there
It's a jungle out there!
Awww, I don't think I could bring myself to cut into them! So beautiful!
I bet the phone was a gift because it's definitely a real celly! The headphones are fondant, though. I love it!