We've noticed a disturbing trend at our local bakeries. Maybe it's because we're based in San Francisco, but "geeky cakes" seem to be on the rise, specifically ones that involve iPhones.
Major fans of Web sites like Cake Wrecks and Cake Failure; we sifted through so many awful specimens we finally amassed a sizable failed cake collection.
Word to the wise: iPhones are particularly difficult to render, especially in cake format. Here's an example of one done particularly well, from local baker Debbie Does Cakes (yeah we know).
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| Debbie Does Cakes |
And for those of you that live under a rock, or just use a BlackBerry, this is what an actual iPhone looks like:
And here are some failed attempts at confectionary replication, in no particular order:
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| Photos via 3.bp.blogspot.com |
| Just when you thought it couldn't get nerdier, The Economist app, in pastry form. |
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| Cake via maedchenmitherz |
| Points for using the text function as the main screen. Minus points for the cursive, and the weird white squiggly things. |
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| Cake via Objectgraph.com |
| Are those "Apps" made of Starbursts? Talk about phoning it in. And why is it on top of another cake? |
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