So, what would be a funky looking dessert?

[primsong]

Apologies if I've missed anything momentous here the last few days, trying to keep up with the yard and helping sort out the stuff from my grandma's estate have really snarfed my happy-lurky time of late - but I Need YOU, flist!

Our youth group's annual dessert auction is coming up this next Sunday and we're ready to roll up our sleeves and come up with something that is both edible and interesting to bring a good price.  We haven't topped our cat-litter pan with crumbled edible 'litter' and tootsie-roll turds in it yet, but I'm willing to try. Maybe a Dalek cake? Sadly there are only a couple Whovians who would recognize them.

Ideas? Things you've seen done that don't involve fondant/ many pounds of frosting/ miraculous baking skills? Humor is good.

Comments

[shirebound]

How about something like this?

http://shirebound.livejournal.com/973969.html

[piplover.livejournal.com]

This one is really cute: http://familyfun.go.com/summer/summer-recipes/summer-cakes-desserts/want-some-mower-699681/

The image is too big, didn't want to overwhelm your LJ.

[estellye.livejournal.com]

This may be old news to you, even though I am amazed by how many people still have never seen it, but my mom used to bake cupcakes inside ice cream cones and then put swirly frosting on top with sprinkles. It's definitely not as unique as kitty litter pan cake, but more people could partake. I still remember how the cake with the cone tastes. mmm...mmmm, kid heaven! We used to use the semi-sweet chocolate Good Neighbor cake for the cupcakes.

[estellye.livejournal.com]

or you could do something like my wedding cake

(http://pics.livejournal.com/estellye/pic/000d88sx/)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to remember a haunted-graveyard cake I saw in a party book one time... no picture, unfortunately, but it had cute things like a pretzel-stick fence, oval cookies stuck endwise in the cake with "RIP" in frosting on them for gravestones, and a licorice stick with split ends for a dead tree. I so wanted to make that cake.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Totally OT, but I keep meaning to ask you: where did you get that adorable icon??

[happydalek.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you're set up for refrigeration, but if you have it you could make Dirt (basically pudding topped with crushed Oreos and gummy worms), and serve it in individual little flower pots. Always a big hit in my crowd, and no baking required!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! Those are *so* cute! I love the swedish fish in there too - definitely under consideration.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

That is TOO cute - and very simple too... I like their other one as well, the barbeque brownies with the little grilled hot-tamales on them. ^_^

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Wow! I adore your cake - I doubt I'd be up to making one like it, but I'm filing the concept away for variations on a smaller scale. That is so unique and lovely. :-D

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Party books are dangerous things, I want to make half the cakes I see in them, even knowing my attempt will never look like their studio-photo version. Making a sheet cake into a diorama of something opens up some possibilities... hm...

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Oh yum, I remember that going by at a party once - I'll probably bake this time, but if something keeps us from managing that I think this may be my emergency fallback, that or rice crispy treats (the ultimate easy-peasy thing) thank you for the reminder!

[shirebound]

It's from one of Rei's (mucun)'s gorgeous drawings. She lets folks use her art as icons.

[estellye.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I can't take credit for it. I was hunting for cake ideas and found a similar cake online. The location where I got married handled both the cake and the flowers as part of my package. They swore they could do anything I wanted, lol, so I showed them a photo and asked them if they could do it, and they said, sure! Unfortunately they had to do it twice, I found out after the fact. I guess it's challenging to get fondant the color of terra cotta. The first cake turned out too bright orangey.

It was great fun, though. We used terra cotta pots of flowers and small terra cotta trays with votive candles as our decorations (the reception was in a converted old dairy barn) so at one point as we were standing next to the cake, one of my bridesmaids asked me, "Where's the cake?". hee!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

"Where's the cake?" Ha, wonderful! Camo cake!

I just have to ask....

[lyria-theringer.livejournal.com]

Will you be posting your final result? I am very curious to see if you can top that litter box dessert -- perfectly yucky!

Re: I just have to ask....

[primsong.livejournal.com]

That I have! Sadly I didn't get to anything like I had hoped, but that doesn't stop me from plotting ahead for the next one. ;-) I think the litter box is still in the top slot, though the swamp jello we once did with rubber alligator, plastic bugs and palm trees embedded in it might be up there as well.