Cake Art

Beautifully decorated cakes can be a joy to behold, but cakes decorated to resemble famous pieces of art raise the bar of artistic appreciation to a new level!

Art Inspired Cakes

Klimt Cake:
This cake is inspired by Gustav Klimt’s compelling and memorable painting “The Kiss”. It was hand-painted by Sweet Ladies Bakery for a wedding.

Photo via Sweet Ladies Bakery

Monet Cake:

Water Lilies is one of Monet’s most famous paintings. This version, by AJ’s Moonlight Cakes, is truly delicious and re-creates the painting in artfully applied icing.

Photo via AJ’s Moonlight Cakes

Keith Haring Cake:
Inspired by the prolific pop graffiti artist, this cake is a beautiful tribute to Keith Haring’s bold, clean lines and highly recognizable cartoon-like characters. Designed by an Italian baking outfit known as VampiAmiche Cakedesigners, this cake is covered with fondant icing, with outlined cut out characters adhered for a pop-out effect.

Photo via VampiAmiche

Picasso Cake:
Picasso’s abstract painting style makes for a striking centerpiece, beautifully illustrated by this three layer cake inspired by “Woman with Wristwatch”. This cake is beautifully hand painted by Chocolaz Artisan Cakes.

Photo via Chocolaz Artisan Cakes

Hanging on a museum wall, these bold, geometric Mondrianesque shapes would go perfectly with a cup of tea. Designed by Blue Bottle Coffee to be sold at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art cafe, this cake is baked in separate colour pieces and then assembled in a checkerboard design, but using different shaped blocks.

Photo via Charlie Villyard

You Are What You EatMIT-Man(2007) by Fabrice Hyber part of the exhibition, Raw Materials at Baltic, Gateshead, UK, until 30 June 2013.

Classical Cake Art

Fancy a Pie?

John was feeling pretty hungry. As he walked home from work, he noticed a sign in a pub window: “a pie, a pint and a friendly word – £4”.

Settled comfortably inside, the barmaid served him his pie and his pint. “Just a moment,” he said, “where’s my friendly word?”

“Don’t eat the pie,” she replied.

Fancy Nutella?

Have you been offered jars of Nutella hazelnut spread lately? “Cash only, no questions asked.”

In the small town of Bad Hersfeld, central Germany, thieves got away with 5 tonnes of Nutella recently. That’s about 6,875 jars (a staggering 27 million calories!) worth almost £14,000.

Two weeks previously coffee worth £25,000 had been stolen, and last August a truckload of Red Bull energy drink disappeared in the same region of Germany.

Police are looking for hyperactive, insomniac, chocoholics.

Nick-named gastro-gangsters, food thieves are becoming more of a problem as food prices across the world rocket.

Fancy a Cheese Course?

“A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye.” Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French lawyer and politician, epicure and gastronome, 1755-1826)

In 1883, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in book “Treasure Island” when castaway Ben Gunn finally is found by young Jim Hawkins says, “You mightn’t happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese–toasted, mostly–and woke up again, and here I were.”

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” Charles De Gaulle (French general and president, 1890-1970)

In early 1900’s, American comic actor W. C. Fields said, “The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”

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