Gingerbread typewriter is entirely edible

Patti from Baked Ideas made this amazing edible gingerbread typewriter for benefit of City Harvest, and it is displayed at NYC's Parker Meridien Hotel.

So…. typewriter came to mind… a sort of gingerbread house for the letters that live inside!! Christmas unplugged, a letter to santa, granny’s laptop …… it was fun to think about.
First we made a model of the typewriter in cardboard, and then baked all the parts and crafted the roller, paper and metal keys out of sugar paste. The “glue” is royal icing, and cookies, stacked up, are the inner supports. The keyboard letters are cookies, iced in ivory and trimmed in silver. The iced gingerbread alphabet letters are frolicking in the sugar snow, sometimes spelling out words (fun, skip, eat, joy.)
I am glad we chose to make a typewriter. It is an image that is a reminder of a simpler time … wintery, happy and unexpected. I hope both kids and adults enjoy looking at it.
It’s 100% edible, down to the rice paper ribbon.

Gingerbread Typewriter (via Neatorama)

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Delicious!
beemoh

Faintly subversive “OWS” on the right-hand side, there…
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Is there an Ice Cream Sandwich update in the works?
millie fink

And when you type on it, here’s the sound it makes: “TWEE!!”
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I use it to write sweet nothings.
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That is completely awesome. Looks like my Smith-Corona.
sockdoll

Manual typewriter?

Needs more steampunk.
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Royal icing…is that a joke?
BijouxBoy

oh please, please, can’t we go back to “Merry Christmas”? “Happy Holidays” is just so…..I dunno….Barney The Dinosaur.
mehennui

Is it bad that I want to serve a severed-foot cake, and little Novril candies to go with this?