Insanely detailed scrumptious nursery-rhyme cupcakes

Flickr user AbbieTabbie makes astonishingly awesome, detailed nursery-rhyme cupcakes that evinced two involuntary reactions from me: my jaw dropped and my salivary glands started pumping.

Nursery Rhyme Cupcakes (Thanks, Amelia!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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sammich

Foetusnail @ 10 – Thank you :)
I hadn’t realised that my version was so mutated and dismembered…

Freakily enough, i first posted this 4 hours ago, it made it onto my profile page, but not to here…

O The Mysteries of The Boingboing…
sammich

Woah! Who did that? Was that you, Antinous? Are you trying to make me look like an idiot?
- Antinous
  
  Don’t make me make a coals to Newcastle joke. But, no, I didn’t do anything.
IamInnocent

@ IGPAJO

I’d really like to have an answer to your question since they still make me hungry. I’d eat them for sure, albeit a bit slower than usual, in a limb by limb fashion. I can’t explain why. I might think twice of it if the figurines are anatomically correct but my guts usually win all their battles.
Takuan

the…the Ghost?
sammich

hmmm…
sammich

there’s a ghost here?!
Takuan

we do not speak of the Ghost!
sammich

(ti detrats uoy)
sammich

i’m sooo glad you’re not ~my~ yoga teacher Antinous… i can only imagine the headfucks you impart in meditation…
- Antinous
  
  Building a zombie army requires creative thinking.
moniker42

I love the subtle nod to silicone baking cups in this post.
Takuan

really for the ice and snow? Looks like Calis gonna freeze!
leebenningfield

This is the second time today I’ve been reminded of cupcakes. On my way to work this morning I saw a car emblazoned with a logo and URL for http://www.kickasscupcakes.com

It must be a sign… to eat more cupcakes…
sammich

Oh really! So ~where’s~ Antinous?
igpajo

Awesome! But how could you bring yourself to eat one of those?
IWood

Looks like Jack…

[sunglasses]

…tried to fetch more than a pail of water.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Takuan

I’m not sure, but it involves palm trees.
- Antinous
  
  It’s arctic here. We didn’t even hit 70 today.
Takuan

OK, what’s ALWAYS bugged me: what the hell is a well doing on TOP of a hill?
sammich

He has palm trees? well i hope it freezes his nuts off
sammich

Mr T – you finally cracked it! I hope you have plenty of vinegar and brown paper to hand…
Takuan

“50 year Arctic blast” coming?
- Antinous
  
  It supposed to be 76 for the next few days, but drop down to the high 50s on the weekend. So far, we’re having a very warm cold season.
sammich

My favourite was always –

“There was an old woman, went up in a basket,
Ninety-nine Times as high as the moon,
Where she was going, I couldn’t but ask it,
for in her hand, she carried a broom…”

“Old woman, old woman, old woman” quoth I, “where are you going so high, so high ?”
“to sweep the cobwebs off the sky,
and I shall be back again, by and by.”
gperrow

Does this remind anyone else of the “miniature killer” on CSI?
Takuan

let zem eet caek!
sammich

but also, my deeply rural lancashire grandad’s…

There was a little man,
and he had a little gun,
and it’s bullets were made of lead, lead, lead.

He took a little look,
and he saw a little duck,
and he shot it right through the head, head, head

- a great rhyme for knee-bouncing the babies…
Anonymous

I thought it was a Katamari Damacy cupcake at first.
Takuan

arrr

http://www.rhymes.org.uk/
Takuan

you would concur runcibility is second from left. yas?
http://www.hcfinemetalwork.com/placesettings/gallery_images/a.jpg
sammich

Foetusnail @ 10 – Thank you :)
I hadn’t realised that my version was so mutated and dismembered…
FoetusNail

Still have my baby copy of “The Real Mother Goose” originally copyrighted in 1916. No one believes me until I show it to them, but I grew up with this Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. I love this stuff.

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, marry, have I,
Three bags full;

One for my master,
One for my dame,
But none for the little boy
Who cries in the lane.

Sammich, if you don’t have it, here’s the rest of the story:

A Little Man

There was a little man, and he had a little gun,
and his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead;
He went to the brook, and saw a little duck,
and shot it right through the head, head, head

He carried it home to his old wife Joan,
And he bade her a fire to make, make, make.
To roast the little duck he had shot in the brook,
And he’d go and fetch the drake, drake, drake.

The drake was a-swimming with his curly tail;
The little old man made it his mark, mark, mark.
He let off his gun, but he fired to soon,
And the drake flew away with a quack, quack, quack.
sammich

i s’pose, or at far left…
Takuan

we need a pickle-off to settle this.
AirPillo

poor drool-covered keyboard