Sunday Sweets: 80s Movie Night
What's that you say? You want a Sunday Sweets post based on the greatest movies of all time? Or at least, the greatest movies of the '80s?
By Miso Bakes
As you wish.
That's right, buttercup, get ready for some eighties movie madness, starting with these sweets based on The Princess Bride - although I hope you've already figured that out by now.
By GeekSweets
It's just that I was looking for the DVD at a store recently, and the clerk literally said, "Ummmmm, is that the one with Anne Hathaway?"
Kids.
But speaking of kids, I was sure that Jen had put this Little Mermaid cake in here by mistake, because I totally remember when this movie came out! It can't be that old.
Holy crab legs, this movie is 24 years old.
How crazy to think that we're now living in Marty Mcfly's future. And look, here he is!
By Black Cherry Cake Company, now Little Cherry Cake Company
The baker really captured him perfectly. I'd recognize that puffy vest and wispy hair from a decade away.
Plus, how awesome are the little fondant flames behind the DeLorean?
Almost awesome enough for me to forget that I still don't have a hoverboard.
Hey, are you a Tom Cruise fan? A Val Kilmer fan? An edible sunglasses fan? If so, then I've got the cake for you:
Such military precision! I'd expect nothing less from a Top Gun cake.
But I have bad news: the Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever.
Until we eat it!
By Mike, aka Flickr user psychobean
Made with a Wilton skull pan and a metric ton of talent. So clever.
And speaking of cyborg assassins ...
By Clares Cakes
Ok, fine, so Inspector Gadget isn't exactly the same thing.
(And not technically a movie, unless you count the live-action film from 1999 - which you really, really shouldn't. - Jen)
But I can't believe we've come this far without mentioning the most quintessential '80s movie of all, Gremlins!
At least, that's what I've heard. This movie may have traumatized me as a child; I still haven't even seen the entire thing. Great cake, though! His ragged little ears are my favorite - they're so cute and non-murderous.
Other things I ain't afraid of: no ghosts!
Submitted by Carey-Anne, made by Very Unique Cakes
Not with the Ghostbusters around, at least! I love that this cake is for a five-year-old. Who needs Spongebob when you can have Slimer?
But here's something I need: a teensy tiny topiary floating over everyone's favorite Goblin King:
Also by Black Cherry Cake Company - which has an even larger & more detailed Labyrinth cake here!
How amazing is this? It would be an impressive cake if it stopped with the globe, but there are so many other great details, from Jareth's sneer down to the tiny arrows on the stone path. So cool.
You know what?
That last cake reminded me of the babe.
What babe?
This one:
By Cake Central member Kayla1505
Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. A beauty in black and white! Whit-whoo! (That was me typing out the sound of a wolf-whistle. Not as easy as you'd think).
Now, I'm not sure if this stunner inspired by The Neverending Story is a wedding cake or not ...
By Art Cake
...but I can't think of a better way to start a new life together than with a luck-dragon on your cake! Can you? In fact, we should probably just start putting Falcors on all our cakes. Weddings, birthdays, graduations, Falker Satherhoods. All Falcor-worthy.
And finally, the '80s movie cake to end all '80s movie cakes (and especially appropriate since yesterday was Star Wars day!)
Photo by Rebel Belle Weddings, Cake by The Butter End Cakery
The Millenium Falcon!
I don't know what's more amazing, the insane amount of detail on this cake, the fact that it was made with modeling chocolate instead of fondant, or, I don't know, that it freaking GLOWS?
I hope it rocked your universe as much as it did mine!
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