I made a super cute cake based on a Team Fotress 2 mod for the folks over at OOO.

Speaking of OOO, Spiral Knights won Best Online Game Design at GDC Austin this week too! Awesome!!

Saturday at work I did a mega large and heavy cake with Disney’s Cars theme. The bottom tier was 16x16x3 and the whole thing was red velvet cake so it weighed a damn ton! I think it tured out great though!

Saturday night we went down to The Tank for my first San Jose Sharks game and Ian’s first hockey game period. I was, of course, cheering for the St. Louis Blues, who ended up winning. Ian looks super cute in a hockey jersey!

Finally we spent Sunday and Monday hanging out with my friend Andrew from Ireland! Lots of fun had by all! Here’s some pictures!

Unfortunately that character wasn’t an option to sleep with in Dragon Age 2, so I picked his quirky doppelganger from the expansion. Unfortunately he turned out to be an Emo, whiny, sissy pants. The first panel of the comic is a snippet of how aggravating he was.

Ian’s romance option turned out to be super creepy, because during the romance screen her neck broke and became all weird and elongated.

Anyway, there’s a bunch of stuff that you don’t really understand just to tell you that I did a comic! Hah!

Next up I stepped up to the plate to make Cephalopod another squid-type cake. Last year I went the 2-D route, so this year I was determined to make it 3-d. I started with a standard 10″ cake (flavors were vanilla lime with keylime curd) then built on top of that. The squid was made of poundcake and the ship piece made of marzipan. Other than that it was buttercream and fondant.

This cake helped me transistion into my next cake for a coworker George, who moved to Greece a week ago. I was assigned the task of making a going away cake for him. Again it was a standard 10″ cake. The flavors were carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese filling and a Swiss buttercream frosting. I used what I had learn from making the squid to make and texture a sheep. I don’t know Greek, so it was interesting trying to figure out how to write “Happy Shepherding” on the cake. I apparently got shepherd right. That’s better than nothing.

Next up with a 20 Year Anniversary cake for our general manager. I was given a invitation to design it after. I wish I’d done more on it; but I also think that if I had, then it may have ended up too busy. This was the first time I had used stencils on a cake and it was a great learning experience. The flavors were white cake with lemon curd and fresh berries.

Though I do not have a picture, the final cake of this month went to a good friend, Danny. Who’s birthday was this week. We celebrated with some wonder Afghan cuisine, tiramisu, cthulhu Munchkin, Blazblue, and Zombies. I’m still a bit bitter that I’ve still yet to win a game of Munchkin ever since I learned it at Connecticon a million years ago.  Anyway, cheers Danny!

This week we are off to Connecticon! See you there!

I have got to tell you, these cookies took forever to make. Wow. They’re massively tedious. I’m sorry MDB, I’d planned on making a few different types; but they will have to be saved for a later date.  Here’s a picture of the cookies and the game they’re based on.