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Considering a Slice of Cake

Chris Burns — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:50:53 +0000

Yay let’s have a party! I’d eat cake every day if I could! I remember when I first went to college, I ate icecream every night. Designers at WAGAii are considering how to cut the cake. Really! Each box of Petals consists of a single plastic flower. With it, you can cut a cake perfectly into 3, 4, 6, 12, 5, 7, 8, 9, or 10 pieces. I didn’t get lost in there! There’s two ways to cut! So many options, one single flower of plastic.

Alright check it out. You can either use the pedals of the flower (the top,) or the leaves of the flower (along the stem.)

If you use the petals (the top,) you can cut the cake into 3, 4, 6, or 12 pieces, as each pedal spans 30 degrees. All you’ve got to do is insert the top of the flower into the cake and keep it in place, cutting then between whichever pedals make sense for you. (See the first image below).

If you use the leaves (on the stem,) you can cut the cake into 5, 7, 8, 9, or 10 pieces. This gets a little more complicated. You must first start with a cut, placing against that cut then the pedal marked with the number of pieces you’d like. At the other end of that pedal, make another cut. Move the pedal to that cut, and continue. All done!

And when you ARE done, the flower connects for a lovely decoration.

Designer: WAGAii

I Want a Slice of this Amazingly Freaky Dead Tauntaun Wedding Cake [Star Wars]

Jesus Diaz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:20:00 +0000

I’ve seen plenty of nerdy geeky freaky cakes in my life, mostly Star Wars-related: R2-D2, the Death Star, the Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader, and pregnant Darth Vader. This dead tauntaun wedding cake, however, is just sick. And I love it.

Look at that detail! This is so gross, yet so damn cool. If I ever get married again, I would only do it to get a frikkin’ freakierer cake than this. Like, instead of a tauntaun, it would be a giant hairless albino monkey with Ringo Starr’s face, and… and his guts would be snakes with the faces of Yoko Ono and Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin and Madonna, and instead of Luke it would be David Bowie wearing Princess Leia’s metal bikini.

There. I grossed myself out. [Star Wars Blog]

High Tech Cake Plate Almost Makes Up for Not Loving Your Own Child [Kitchen]

Mark Wilson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Let’s not dwell on the past. Things happened as they happened, you have a kid and you don’t want to sing the damned Happy Birthday song yet another year. Boy oh boy do we have the cake plate for you.

With the push of a button, the Musical Cake (and pizza) Tray will play Happy Birthday (so you can sit in awkward silence while the plate does your job for you). But what’s just as handy is that a series of LEDs illuminate around the cake’s perimeter, signaling where the 12 slices should go.

Wait a second…there are supposed to be 12 slices in a cake? I thought you just cut the thing into 4 slices. You know, like pie. [Deni via GadgetGrid via OhGizmo!]

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Rob Beschizza — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:03:23 +0000

I like Rob Brennan’s cake. [flickr]