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Emperor Penguin wedding cake

I'm usually the last person to get excited about wedding cakes. I'll leave it up to you gentle readers to decide whether this is because of a deep-seated fear of commitment; the fact that many wedding cakes are towering, multitiered butter-cream behemoths; or some combination of all of the above.

Despite my hardened exterior, I got a kick out of the cake pictured here, which features 400 Emperor Penguins arrayed around a series of icebergs. The groom's uncle spent three days painstakingly creating them out almond paste, cake and chocolate.

It seems that the penguin motif was not intended to reflect the wedding's lack of black-tie attire, but rather as an homage to the grooms' interests. Seems the fellow has been to Antartica five times.

[via boingboing]


Filed Under: Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: almond paste, AlmondPaste, Antartica, chocolate, dessert, Emperor Penguins, EmperorPenguins, oddities, sugar, wedding cake, WeddingCake

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Kate

10-16-2006 @11:56AM Kate said... Cute cake, applaud the effort -- but that's about the most annoying website design I've encountered in a while. Finally found the cake, but I was about to jump out at the very moment I found it -- already tired of the jumble of links and visual assault. Bah humbug, I guess!
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Marcin

10-17-2006 @1:58PM Marcin said... Really good idea. At my weeding was ugly cake :(
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Steve

10-18-2006 @1:59PM Steve said... What I find even more interesting is what happened to him after the wedding: http://www.caterina.net/archive/001011.html
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