Top 15 Creative Cakes + Instructables Contest (SUPER GALLERY)

Scrap tradition, get creative! These cakes are ultra innovative!

Some people follow recipes, but really creative people know that the best thing they could ever bake comes from tossing the book aside and taking risks! Just look at this super gallery of offbeat cakes!

Instructables held a contest to let people’s culinary imaginations run wild. Anyone has the chance to vote on submissions, which include everything from ultra healthy vegan cakes to sculpted desserts with extremely intricate designs.

In addition to beautiful graphics of each entry, there are links to recipes and instructions so you can make your own.

Even if you don’t want to copy the recipes, it’s a great place to seek inspiration for your own edible masterpieces!

Check out some more great cakes here:

Incredible Edible Art - Mike’s Amazing Cakes (GALLERY)

The most beautiful and creative cakes I have ever seen have to be over at Mike’s Amazing Cakes. They can make anything your imagination can dream up and they do it beautifully. These photos are just a small sampling of the work this company has done for weddings, corporate functions, personal ev… [More]

Cake on a Stick - DIY Cakesicle

These little treats may look like pink lollipops at first glance, but trying to suck on them might not work so well; they’re soft as cake! Cakesicles are actually easy to make; all you need is cake mix (yes, out of the box is just fine), lollipop sticks and pink candy melts for the coating. Choose… [More]

Cake Innovation - 5 Cakes That Prove The End of the Traditional Cake (GALLERY)

Cakes are boring, which means they don’t fit your unique needs.  As a result, we are starting to see examples of cake innovation, like these cakes from Charm City Cakes.  The website features dozens of unqiue cakes.  The site describes, “We only have one rule at Charm City Cakes, and that is whateve… [More]

Extremely Personalized Cake - Bride Serves Herself to Guests

Proving that everything is bigger in Texas, lone star bride Chidi Ogbuta had her likeness made into a cake for her wedding day.  She said it was her childhood dream to have a full sized version of herself in cake form.  Disturbing? Perhaps, but in the age of personalization anything is possible. P… [More]

Playing With Your Food - Cakes That Are Games (GALLERY)

Your mother always told you not to play with your food but maybe now she’l make an allowance with these very cool game cakes! In fact, there is an entire website devoted to Game Cakes. Pick and choose and find your favourite - top picks include the PS2 Cake, the Guitar Hero cake and lots of other So… [More]

Eco-Chic Desserts - Lilyfield Cakes In Recyled Hat Boxes (GALLERY)

Lillyfield cakes are an eco-chic dessert wrapped in recycled hat boxes and loved by celebrities. The Isca all-organic cakes come in hat boxes made of hemp and recycled, vegetable-dyed materials. The lids are adorned with (recycled?) chicken feathers, and the beautiful chocolate dessert is nestled in… [More]

Designer Desserts - Karl Lagerfeld’s Holiday Log

Karl Lagerfeld has taken a micro-break from designing fashion and put his artistic touch on concocting this culinary Christmas treat. The excentric German teamed up with Parisian baker, Lenôtre, to design the limited edition Holiday Log or bûche de noël. “The Karl Lagerfeld holiday log comes … [More]

Platinum Cake - Eat Some, Wear The Rest

This cake was created for a promotional event for Platinum Guild International in Tokyo. Made from pure platinum, it is worth $130,320. The most extraordinary part about this cake? You can wear the non-edible parts! [More]

$20 Million Diamond Iced Wedding Cake

Can you get free publicity by adding diamonds to ANYTHING?  Search Trend Hunter for ‘diamonds’ and you’ll find a lot of entries.  Now, you can find one more: a $20 million diamond iced luxury wedding cake.  Reuters descriobed, “The extravagant $20 million diamond-studded wedding cake, created by Mim… [More]

Swarovski Cake Jewels

Now you can get Swarovski crystals as the accents for your wedding cake.  It seems to me that Swarovski crystals are everywhere. On that note, I’m still amazed with the Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Brooch which is basically a live cockroach with a Swarovski Crystals encrusted on it.  “We t… [More]

Life Size Car Cake - Skoda Advert is Sugar & Spice & All Things Nice (VIDEO)

Everyone loves this new Skoda advert in the UK - and I do too. Very strange way to advertise a car, but hey it works. [More]

Art You Can Eat - Surreal Sculpted Cakes (GALLERY)

The Russians are coming and they’re bringing some fantastical cakes that are too gorgeous to be eaten! Every bit is edible but you’d have to be out of your mind to take the first bite! Check out everything from a Case of Pepsi Cake to a realistic looking Treasure Chest and even a Back-to-Back Laptop… [More]

The Pope Cake and Other Biblical Delicacies (GALLERY)

I had no idea the Pope had his own cake. In fact, the company that makes it was commissioned to make it because it is the Pope’s favorite dessert. Who knew? Who knew that there was a whole line of biblical food products? From relatively harmless products like mint and energy bars, to more scandalous… [More]

Cakes for Dogs

Dog Dogs is the UK’s only bakery for dogs that freshly makes cakes to order. Not only are they dog friendly, but they also look good enough to grace any kitchen floor. They offer a range of cakes iced with a message for any event in your dogs life; for example Happy Castration, Sorry to Hear You’ve… [More]

Cupcake Art

A while ago, we covered a story about Cake Innovation.  Well, now we have a story about Cupcake Innovation.  The designs aren’t quite as extreme, but the level of detail is worthy to justify some of these cupcakes as art. Colombia Road based Treacle has got it down to an art form that instantly tra… [More]

BONUS: Ultra Chic Accessory!

Stiletto Cake Server

Entertain your desert party with the Stiletto Cake Server.  It’s available at Chiasso for $24. “We’ve found a fun, modern way to serve cake to the well-heeled crowd. This sleek shoe-shaped server is actually two pieces. The server is shaped like the sole of a sexy high heel to slice and slide und… [More]