Sunday Sweets Explores The Galaxy

Today we're going on our very own Galaxy Quest, cake fans, only this one won't include ANY forms of rudimentary lathes. (HA NERD JOKE)

No, instead I found 10 of my favorite galaxy and night sky cakes, so if you have a problem with black icing, green tongues, and/or technicolor poo, abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

Now, ON TO THE PRETTIES.

[By Redditor Skizorbit, posted here on Imgur]

It's like someone wrapped a photograph over the cake - bu that's all hand-painted!

I like how this wedding cake combined 3D trees around the edges:

[By Tastefully Yours Cake Art in Australia]

Plus the silhouettes are a sweet touch.

Here comes a technicolor galaxy inspired by the Hubble telescope images:

[By Sprinkle Bakes (blog only), who has a tutorial here!]

While this one captures the bright shimmery lights of the Aurora Borealis:

[By Clairella Cakes in London]

Here's one with a gothic flair:

[By Whipped Dreams (site unknown), photo by Orange Photographie]

I like the black-and-white abstract feel, and I never thought I'd say this, but those candles are the perfect topper. So cool!

A sweet and simple one-tier with the most gorgeous crescent moon on top:

[From Vanilla Cloud in Korea]

Look at that fun texture! Like a bunch of buttons! I bet they crunch like meringue, too.

This one literally writes the cake's message in the stars:

[By The Butter End Cakery in Los Angeles]

Birthday constellations!

And we can't talk about starry nights without including the most famous one:

[By Breyanne's Sweets in Texas]

There are a lot of Starry Night cakes out there, but I fell for the texture on this one: almost matte, like chalk pastels! But it's hand-painted buttercream, if you can believe it. Absolutely stunning work.

Since space is wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey stuff, it only makes sense to add a TARDIS topper:

[By Heaven Sent in Ohio]

The lights are a brilliant touch!

And finally, another out-of-this-world cake... of the whole solar system:

[By Dolce Dita in France]

I have the irresistible urge to pop the whole moon into my mouth y'all. Maybe Mars, too.

But not Uranus.

Happy Sunday! Hope these made you smile!

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P.S. Galaxy cakes are temporary, but this gorgeous blanket? Well, that's forever. Or at least a couple years, if your cats don't chew holes in it like mine do.

Galaxy Throw Blanket

There are lots of galaxy print blankets out there, but this is best reviewed one I've found. Vibrant, super soft, and not too thick!

Hunker Down, and WRITE IT OUT

Sometimes I feel like a cake archeologist, minions. I inspect the clues, sift through the remains, and try to figure out what happened in the past.

For example....

Something terrible has happened here.

Some events are pretty straightforward:

The old "ran out of icing" story.

There's also the classic "Too lazy to change the icing tip after piping the border":

Or its variation, "Too lazy to change the icing tip after piping the roses":

Here we see evidence of significant toothpick scraping, often indicative of the "I'm Not Even Supposed To Be Here" dynasty of the Mid-Graduation era:

Ahhh. Magnificent.

You know that thing in restaurants where everyone is singing Happy Birthday to some stranger three tables over, and you all just mumble your way through the name part?

This is that, in cake form:

Sadly some mysteries will never be solved. Instead we'll be left to forever wonder... the 5th what?

I think I've cracked the code on this next one, though. Here's a recreation of the ACTUAL EVENTS, as played by hired actors in my head:

"What do you mean, 'last minute?' Of course we custom-ordered your cake, Miranda! Weeks ago! This was totally planned!"

While we'll never know for sure what happened to wrecks of the past, one thing is certain: the longer you look at this one, the funnier it gets:

Seriously.

I'm crying.

(I wonder who did the bigger spit-take: me or the baker.)

Thanks to Tex, Betsy P., Diamond, Philip L., Allison P., M.R., Lauren P., Miranda, & Kelsie L. for digging these up.

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P.S. It's never too early to start decorating for spooky season, and these stick-on bats were my biggest hit last year:

3D Halloween Bats, Exterior Grade, 60 pc set

They're made of sturdy plastic, come in 4 different sizes, and have adhesive pads to easily stick them up anywhere in or outside your home. (I put a whole belfry of them on our front door.) (I don't know if "belfry" is right, but I'm going with it. :D) Even better, the whole 60 piece set is only $10 Prime!

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And from my other blog, Epbot: