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Cake or snake?

Mark Frauenfelder at 4:00 pm Fri, Aug 10, 2012

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Gareth Branwyn of MAKE says: "Francesca Pitcher from North Star Cakes in the UK created this amazingly realistic Burmese python cake for her daughter’s birthday. She posted it on her Facebook page and it’s gone viral from there. Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes even tweeted about it."

Snake Cake! Run for Your Lives!

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • Brainspore

    You know that whoever cut the first piece must have had this scene running through their head at the time.

  • http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

    The snake is a lie.

    • SoItBegins

       Darn it, you completely beat me to it.

  • Boundegar

    I hope the daughter was old enough to not be horribly traumatized.

  • johnfoster

    I really don’t like this caaaaaa-snake! it’s a snake. A SNAKE! badger, badger, badger, badger…

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Maybe it’s mushroom flavored, too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hauntedsandiegospooky Spookygirl Insandiego

    Albino Burmese pythons are one of my favorite snakes. But I couldn’t eat this cake ’cause I’m a vegetarian. LOL

  • Mister44

    “Cake or death?”

    “Um… cake, please.”

    • Heather Hughes

      Okay, cake for you.  You!  Cake or death????

  • Felton / Moderator

    But I ordered the creampuff adder.

  • Ipo

     I’ve had it with these motherfucking cakes on this motherfucking plane! 

  • nanner

    it’s a snacake! 

  • http://profiles.google.com/chassoto Charles Soto

    I’m tired of the mf cakes on this mf plane!

  • http://www.rickcortes.com Rick.

    “Cake, please.”

  • http://profiles.google.com/darkfire79 Michael Birch

    That’s awesome :)

  • fredh

    “Snake…no, wait. I meant cake! CAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!