Ha! Fooled You AGAIN.

There's been a tradition going around for April Fool's Day to either make cake look like other foods:

By CW reader Brenda S.

... or make other food look like cake:

It's a literal beef cake!

By CW reader Barbara G.

Sonya D. here even did both: The "cake" is meatloaf with mashed potato icing, and the grilled cheese "sandwiches" are cake!

Cute! Now ... SOMEONE BRING ME A CAKE SAMMICH.

Ahem.

Naturally, all the big chain bakeries have decided to get in on this action, churning out a veritable plethora of faux food guaranteed to fool ANYONE who is standing fifty feet away and just got those pupil-dilating drops put in from the ophthalmologist within the past hour.

I think it's supposed to be a hot dog and fries.
I KNOW it looks like moldy doody.

("Howdy, DOODY.")

How about single servings of spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, and tiny cherry pies?

Or these things?

The bakers actually succeeded on this one:

Although I don't remember the Bog of Eternal Stench having quite that much silly string.

Much as it pains me to admit it, sometimes the "corn on the cob" cupcakes can be pretty darn cute.

Happily, this isn't one of those times.

This one's my favorite, though - because only a wreckerator could fail this badly to make a cupcake look like a cupcake:

*facepalm*

When all else fails, though, nothing fools customers into believing there are real raw green beans and potato chips stuck on the cupcakes like sticking real raw green beans and potato chips on the cupcakes:

Let's not ask what the lumps are in the other cupcake's icing, though, ok? I'd like to eat again someday.

Thanks to Shellis S., Mia & Trinh, Kris D., Tracy W., Sabrina P., Kae B., & Sheila M. for the faux food foolishness. 

Mega Con-fusion

As you über fans/stalkers already know, John and I spent the last three days at MegaCon, a local sci-fi and comic book convention. (Yep, we're some of "those" people. HI.)

It was a delightful time, and we had a blast meeting lots of you readers, gawking at Star Trek celebs, and taking pictures of all the awesome costumes. In fact, after three days it's a little strange to see people NOT wearing rainbow wigs and light-up armor. I don't suppose some of you would carry around six-foot foam swords while I adjust back down to reality, would you?

 

Anyhoo, at every con there are always some costumes you can't ID - kind of like certain character cakes. (See, THERE's the segue you were waiting for.)

For example, I can almost guarantee you know who this character is, so see if you can guess:

Nope, it's not a skinned Princess Leia! Try again.

Give up?

It's this guy:

I guess you could say that cake really took the Mickey out of him. [Bah dum CHA.]

 John and I saw TONS of My Little Pony costumes at the con, though thankfully no one subjected Pinkie Pie to quite this level of humiliation:

 

[wincing] Ouch. Let's get an official reaction on this one, shall we? 

Pinkie? Your thoughts?

  by MoonGazePonies

Yeah. Us, too.

We also saw plenty of Spider-Men ...

K, I give up: what is that head made of?

... Avengers:

Sad Jesus: THE ULTIMATE SUPER HERO.

 (Yes, yes, I KNOW it's supposed to be Thor. Quit spoiling my fun, details.)

... princesses:

Though thankfully none with tentacles sprouting from their bazooms.

 ... and, of course, zombies.

 "Can YOU say 'CEREEEEEEEBROS'?"

Well, I'm off to sort through all my photos, so I'll leave you with an awesome wreckplica of everyone's favorite Darth-Vader-Riding-A-My-Little-Pony cake, which we printed onto pins, which we then gave out to any readers who found us at MegaCon, thereby completing THE CIRCLE OF LIFE:

 

Told ya it was awesome.

Thanks to Gretchen W., David S., James P.,  Santiago P., Mary, Analiese F., & Kathryn K. for the mega lolz. Oh, and if you guys want to see *my* costume from this weekend, plus all the pics I took of everyone else's, be sure to watch my other blog, Epbot!