Doyouloveanapple made these fantastic Mighty Mugg-based cakes for her partner’s birthday! They both feature homemade marshmallow fondant. (via)
TGIF: A selection of Star Wars cakes
To start us off, here are some adorable Star Wars cupcakes created by Dottylicious and photgraphed by Red Wolf.
Next, a Lego Star Wars cake by Meg, who has several Star Wars cakes to her name.
A Han in Carbonite groom’s cake photographed by Mandy Lackey.
And last but by no means least, Fionnuala & Scott Thompson’s multi-level Star Wars wedding cake. (Be sure to click through for detail shots!)
Find even more in the Star Wars Cakes group, or our own cake–related tags.
The fandom minute: Cake wrecks (and not,) R2 builders, Star Wars Lego, lol internets
Or death? Cake Wrecks went on a Star Wars twofer last week. First the bad cakes, then the good ones. At right, one of the more disturbing cakes, which I’m pretty sure is what happens when Yoda mates with a certain fertility idol.
- Events: R2-D2 Builders and more at Texas Build Off 2009. Meanwhile, last weekend Star Wars LEGO fans took over San Diego’s LEGOland. Get started on those pics at The Brothers Brick.
- Humor: If villains used internet forums.
- T-shirts: Bow-Tie Fighter. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Etsy scavenger: Artoo cookies!
Order or just admire these baked-to-order Artoo sugar cookies from Sugar & Flour.
The fandom minute: Bathrooms, mummies, roller derby, games, and cake (always cake)
I have a feeling no one actually uses this. Tour the Star Wars bathroom. And if they do, I feel very sorry for whoever has to clean it.
Fanmade. Mummy Boy-customs by Leecifer.
Event. The Indiana 501st and Rebel Legion are heading out to cheer on battling roller derby teams at Cyclone Wars this weekend. (via)
Lists. Jennifer Volpe’s Top Ten Best ‘Star Wars’ Games. I’m taking a strange ornery pride in the fact that I haven’t played a single one. (Please don’t tell me to start. Some people don’t read: I don’t game.)
And finally, cake. You know it’s love when she makes you a Star Destroyer.
The fandom minute: TPM documentry, PT defense, AT-STs in the park, plus cake
Continuing adventures in TPM nostalgia. Everyone’s talking about the documentary A Galaxy Far Far Away, which has a 10th anniversary edition out. (Hey, it was news to me!) The reviews are not all so good, though.
And on that note… Somewhere on the internet, someone is always defending the prequels.
Pro art: Colleen Doran shares the original sketch for her Anakin/Padme card from the Galaxy 4 set.
Gathering: A Geekdad spotted a Star Wars event in in London, Ontario a few weeks back.
There must be cake. Perhaps the most amazing AT-AT cake you’ve ever seen.
Fun fact: Darth Vader’s reveal to Luke is the most misquoted phrase in film.
What? I can’t believe GalacticBinder found even one, let alone ten Star Wars surfing crossovers.
Cheap shots: Twilight… With cheeseburgers
The parody that’s sweeping the internet!
The fandom minute: Morning crank edition
It’s art! Or not. No. Just no. Clone Wars character design, I know McQuarrie, and you sir are no McQuarrie. On the other hand, Christian Waggoner’s stuff is kinda cool.
Let them eat slime. This Jabba cake is appropriately disgusting yet totally hand-made. Pretty impressive.
Don’t strain yourself.Is Star Wars science fiction or fantasy? It’s sci-fantasy. Duh.
Listicles. Princess Leia is one of Yahoo’s lethal ladies; The prequels bottom out io9’s list of science fiction prequels, beating out even You-Know-Who’s Dune books on their scale of crappiness. Ouch.
Road trip! If you missed it, The Vader Project is now in Pittsburgh.
Wacky merchandise of the day: Let the Twilight candy hearts dazzle you!
Yes, these Twilight conversation hearts are for real: I actually saw them in Borders today. Some of them have glitter and one says “Dazzle.” IT’S LIKE THEY’RE SPOOFING THEMSELVES.
Of course, the Twilight folks are breaking no records here: The infamous Jar Jar lollipop beats this by miles and miles. But it gave me a good laugh this morning.
The fandom minute: Ima Trooping; Scalzi ponders Star Wars 3-D; BOW cake; Yoda’s travels
- Photo fun Adventures in Stormtrooping with a little help from The Simpsons, Cobra Commander, Hellboy and a very naughty Wall-E.
- The blogside: John Scalzi theorizes that George wants to release Star Wars in 3-D to beat Gone With the Wind in the all-timers. Seems a bit of a reach to me: If that was the case, why all this waiting? Has George seen Coraline?
- Cake: Bearded Obi-Wan is full of… Strawberry jam? I’m sure there’s a Spaceballs joke in there somewhere.
- Travels: Yoda sees the world.