Competitive Update: Megan’s cake just won the “Taste of Mexico” Category at the 2010 UIUC Edible Books Festival.   Congratulations Megan!

Last Tuesday was the Edible Books festival at UIUC, and I entered a One Hundred Years of Solitude cake!

It was a really excellent experience, partly because it was a whole lot of fun to have a reason to make something so complicated, and mostly because I got to spend the morning hanging out with other people who have an unnatural interest in baking extravagant things.  And, I took home a prize (for reasons which are very flattering and sort of inexplicable) for the Taste of Mexico category.

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves, but here’s a rundown of the cake:
- Marble cake with cream cheese icing
- Graham cracker and icing houses
- Red icing trail of blood
- Licorice train tracks
- Pretzel stick fence
- Runts bananas
- Animal cracker livestock
- Rock candy “ice”
- Pretzel stick, icing, and mint-leaf tree
- Mint leaf border
- Mini yellow swedish fish “gold fish”
- Orange peel “baby tail”
- Brown sprinkle “ants”
- Lots and lots and lots of icing color

Ta-da!

The banana company railroad yard.

The first of the line is tied to a tree...

... and the last is being eaten by the ants.

Tagged as: Baking, books, cake, food that looks like other things, fun

Article by Megan K

Megan K lives in Champaign IL and works for an indie record label. She also studies graphic design and is moving to California in August. She likes music, and books, and penguins, and she really likes baking.

Megan has written 14 other articles.

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