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C.'s mother is an extraordinary cake decorator. For the birthday party we went to this past weekend, in honor of the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, she made a Bayeaux ~~Tapestry~~ Embroidery-themed cake. Behold.

Edited to add: I've passed all your lovely comments on to the cake maker!

Further edit: Now with photos of the whole cake. Note that I've edited out the name on the cake. (I'm not very practiced with image manipulation so I know it's a rather visible change on one of the photos. Sorry about that. I'm not happy posting names + precise birth dates of other people in public online so needed to change something.)

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There are 45 comments on this entry. (Reply.)

Wow! That's amazing!

!!!!!!!!! That is FABULOUS.

Whoa.

VERY cool!!!

Oh. My. Gosh. Most amazing cake EVER!

That's incredible! Bravo!

Wow. Amazing.

That's really pretty - thanks for posting the photographs.

Um, wow?

Oh! That's just beautiful. (Over here at angevin2's recommendation, and so worth it.)

Also here from angevin2, also flabbergasted at the awesomeness. :D

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Moi aussi. I love the detail - the narrative being translated into English. Fantastic work!

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Awesome.

Amazing! Did you dare eat it? Who got Halley's Comet?

We did eat it! No comet though. The invitation and her card for the birthday person were also themed around this, so perhaps there was an inedible one on one of them.

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WIN. :-)

That is seriously cool!

That's a work of art. And you ate it? !!!

We ate it. A good thing too: I think it was the best fruitcake I've ever had, and that includes all the others she's made that I've eaten. Most fruitcakes are too dry for my taste. This was the perfect balance of alcohol to crumb and fruit.

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Did you really eat it?

It was delicious. The best fruitcake I've ever had (and that includes many that she's made in the past).

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That is fantastic! I love the way she gets a 3D effect from the edging casting shadows into the translucent white frosting and the way she minutely changes the luminance of the coloring of the far side horse legs.
Well done. Bravo!

That is simply wonderful! :D

Marvellous. Cakewrecks has "non-wreck Sundays" on which they post beautiful cakes to remind you how it's done; I think this should be submitted.

I was going to say the same thing. This is fantastic! It put me in mind of a lecture by my Early English History prof at Smith-- he had a whole slideshow/lecture/dog-and-pony show worked out on the Bayeux tapestry, wherein he would get terribly excited about the bloody parts. It was quite entertaining.

Edited Date: 2009-10-19 11:23 pm (UTC)

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Even though I don't feel I can publicly post a photo of the entire cake? (The top is not thematically related: "Happy Birthday to [Person's Name]" and their age, all of which gives too much identifying information about him/her to post for all the world to see.)

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Perhaps a bit of work with photoshop or GIMP could be done to remove identifying details? It definitely is a cake deserving of wider acclaim!

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Don't forget the theory that it was embroidered in Canterbury rather than Bayeaux - and the Battle of Hastings wasn't in Hastings... My, it's a pedant's delight.

Incroyable! If that means what I hope it means. If not, incredible.

Edited Date: 2009-10-20 12:43 am (UTC)

It's bad enough that I am compelled to use "Bayeaux Embroidery" these days! But yes. It's true.

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that's fantastic!

OH MY GOD.

This is AMAZING. AMAZING.

Oh, wow! Wow.

Better than fabulous-- that's a cake for the ages! I doubt I'd have been able to cut into it. 8)

Fortunately, there was a ritual cake-cutting moment in the middle of the party, so at least its slicing was with due ceremony.

(There were also other desserts, however: lemon-kiwi cheesecake, trifle, chocolate cake. This being a fruitcake, plenty of people could take away slices for later.)

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ooh ! ooh!

Fabulous! What a talented lady :-)

While I echo everything above, I am amazed no-one has asked: HOW did she do it? What techniques did she use? Did she simply draw onto the cake, or did she make the shapes and stick them on? They seem to have a 3D aspect; how did she do that? What materials was she using? Has she been on courses and, if so, where does one sign up? :-)

I'll ask!

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Oh good! I couldn't wait to see the pictures. This cake is extrordinary.

You and this cake are officially (and rightly) famous: I just found a link back here in another blog!

Please please tell me there's a picture of the whole cake?

~L

Thank you for the reminder! Now that I've spent all of two minutes editing out the name on the cake, I've posted two overall photos:

http://owlfish.livejournal.com/976735.html#cutid2

(There was no way I was going to post that much identifying information about someone else in public if I could avoid it.)

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Stunning

Fantastic!

Really great job on the cake!!!

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