Ben and Kerri's wedding cake "commemorates the first Halloween they spent together early in the relationship. He was painted green, as the Hulk. She was Wonder Woman." At the wedding, photos from that Halloween night decorated the table around the cake.
Before the Cake Police get started in the comments about the non-cake elements crowning the third layer: This cake caught my notice not for its artistry, or even for its boldness. Yes, arguably, it's an aesthetically interesting cake with a bold Hulk-green look, but it pales on both counts when compared to something like the Jabba wedding cake.
No, I want to give props to this cake as part of Ben and Kerri's overall commitment to a geeky superhero theme in their wedding. The Hulk-green tone didn't just make it onto the cake and the place settings. Ben sported a green tie, and Kerri wore a green sash around her wedding dress.
That's got to be the Hulkiest wedding, ever… which could only have been made more perfect by Ben slipping one of those giant, foam Hulk hands onto Kerry in lieu of a wedding band.
That cake looks like it causes cancer. Of the balls. Kinda like marriage, I guess.
Is the internet out of good geek cakes or something? I won't even comment on the non-edible elements in this one – frankly, it doesn't deserve a seat at the table – doesn't deserve mention in the same sentence as the jabba cake. Give me some green food coloring and a trip to toys r us and I could make this. And I'd get a non-midget hulk too.
I seriously doubt you could make a wedding cake like that and if you could then you should be charging people hundreds of dollars for wedding cakes.
What I enjoy about it is that it is a pro cake with a bit of nerd flavor, much as my own was. The "non-edible" part is called a cake topper, which isn't supposed to edible in the first place. Is there some rule now that a wedding cake has to be 100% edible?
If you love that cake so much why don't you marry it? If you decide you want to you can order one from me, the cost is $700.
And yes, the cake has to be 100% edible. It is rule #1 of my cake judging rules.
By the way, can't we talk about the real issue at hand, which is gamma radiation-induced ball cancer?
As one of the "you need to be able to eat it for it to be a 'cake'" crowd, I will formally declare that characters on top need not be edible — and anyone who says they need to be is just plain, well, a shithead. I believe this whole thing started when your "cake of the week" was basically a bunch of cardboard with candy glued to it.
That this was a real wedding cake shows serious commitment clearly worthy of "geek curiosity" status.
WTF. I don't get it. The cake has green icing. That's it. Make the icing brown, or white, and it's and entirely pedestrian cake. And screw toys r ' us – you could probably get these characters at Walgreens.
So $#&* this and ^&#!(* you people. I am out of the wedding cake business for good.
Man, Shithead, you must be having a really bad day — we clearly will not like you when you get angry.
Don't you see that the having a cake like this at a wedding deserves some geek respect, regardless of the inherent ornateness?
Plus, there's the whole "pearls" effect and that candy-stripe lookin' thing on each layer. And maybe it was really moist and delicious.
All this arguing over the eatability of the cake? Am I the only one totally freaked out about the Hulk boning Wonder Woman?
This cake isn't my favorite in design, but I have great respect for anyone who so deeply loves something (anything) that they will design the biggest day of their lives around it.
I love brownie bites. Like, LOVE them. But I'll never have a brownie bite-themed wedding.
Nima, actually, no, it's not that odd.
But, maybe that says more about my worldview than about the intrinsic weirdness of the imagery.
What's funny is I get the feeling that the people that got married aren't HUGE hulk or Wonder Woman fans. The real deal is that they wanted something special to remind them of a good time in their relationship or whatever so they got a real wedding cake and decorated it to that end. They weren't thinking "OMG we need a cake in the shape of Hulk's head", they went the classy route for a wedding.
Again, this is just like my wedding cake which was a real wedding cake with a Star Wars topper. I didn't feel the need to spend thousands on a cake in the shape of Slave Leia only to have it cut up and eaten.
So is this geeky? Yeah, but only mildly so compared to some of the other things featured on this blog yet it's a wedding cake in the traditional sense of the word so of course the topper isn't going to be edible.