HOWTO make a Tardis cake

Craftster user Umbrolly cooked this magnificent Tardis cake for her sister's birthday. Apparently the eerie Martian planetscape beneath the tardis was meant to be a nice smooth rectangular cake but went wrong -- I think it makes the whole thing just perfect. Lots of documentation on Craftster if you want to try your hand at it.

It looks really wobbily in these pictures, I used a different cake recepie to usual and it was a bit too moist, so what started out nice and rectangular went sort of squishy.

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Josephine

Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey cake!

Cory, she says right in her post: “This is how I built up the cake for the base (randomly)”. I think the “wobbly” bit you’ve quoted refers to the TARDIS portion. The landscape is intentionally quarry-licious.
Boba Fett Diop

For “eerie Martian landscape,” read “gravel quarry in the Mildands.”
Mark Hurst

I recently spotted a Dalek cake in an Oxford, UK bakery – photo here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhurst/2607103597/
Torchwood

I agree, gravel quarries are the number one spot for Tardis sitings. Oh and the cake is amazing, i can imagine it vanishing just as i am about to cut it.

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strider_mt2k

I agree!

I think the cakescape beneath looks perfectly fitting!

Hope someone made coffee!
FarrisGoldstein

“Doctor Who? What is he talking about?”

“Why does it still look like a police box?”

Hartnell was the best. Looking at this wobbly cake reminds me of watching An Unearthly Child.
ill lich

I’m guessing the edges are wavy because it’s in the processes of materializing/dematerializing?
fdragon

is there more cake on the inside than there looks to be on the outside?