America, cake yeah!

Love and Lots of Sugar has documented some of the creation of a remarkable Captain America fourth birthday cake that, in cross section, displayed the stars-n-stripes. It's a really sweet bit of topology-based baking, and, judging by the photos, was a smash-hit.

The last picture I posted hit it big on Reddit. Some really nice things have been said. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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Stars and Bars?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
… surely you meant Stars and Stripes
- Cory Doctorow
  
  Right you are.
Rich Keller

Americake?
Brainspore

Wow, that’s a lot of effort. Especially compared to the cake’s evil nemesis, Red (Skull) Velvet.
jon_anon

topography? As in the study of the surface of the earth? Maybe you meant topology because of the toroidal cross-section of blue, I can’t figure it out.
Shinkuhadoken

Which brings up the age old question:

Is it patriotic to eat the flag?
- Brainspore
  
  I believe that question was settled in People v. Zoidberg.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Eating it is fine. Shitting it out is a crime in thirteen states.
  - Mister Juju
    
    UH-OH.
inkfumes

Americiabetes!
Brainspore

It’s a really sweet bit of topology-based baking, and, judging by the photos, was a smash-hit.

SMASH hit? You must be thinking of the other Avenger-themed cake. You know, the big green one.
- Quiche de Resistance
  
  Speaking of big green one, I used to make a Libya flag cake but that shit got a way too difficult last year.
bbonyx

And, not to be jingoistic, a Texas flag (accidentally) created on the frosted edge of the cut piece in the main pic. :P
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The only thing I’d add would be little white chocolate chips to be stars in the blue cake.
atimoshenko

Send it to the Swedish Culture Minister?
semiotix

Hey, that cake only has 11 stripes! GO BACK TO RUSSIA, COMRADE!
- pjcamp
  
  Don’t you remember learning about the zero states and nine original colonies?
- twianto
  
  Look closer. You have to count _all_ the layers of icing too; it all adds up to 13.
edthehippie

now , that’s some red white and blue patriotism that i can sink my teeth into !!! or is that crimson , white , and indigo ?? hahrhrarhrh
CLamb

This is much better than a genital mutilation cake.
Cory Schmunsler

I like how the side of the cake is frosted so that each slice gets a Texas flag.