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What is an Iggle Piggle?

I’m not entirely sure, but this is a picture of him:

Iggle Piggle

I made a fondant version of him for the cake place:

Iggle Piggle in Fondant

I think it looks decent, but it was hard to capture his odd bean shaped head properly.

Fondant Iggle Piggle

It was fun

I didn’t cover the cake in Fondant, I’m going to have to learn how to do that properly!

Tags: baking, cake, iggle piggle cake, in the night garden

Halloween 2008!

I haven’t written in a while and that is because of the amount of prepparation Hallowen required. It was well worth it!

My work takes Halloween so seriously… more so than any other place I know of.  We had a costume contest, a pumpkin carve-off, a bake sale and a candy cart! It was hard to focus.

Here’s a pic of my costume in it’s full glory:

This is how you dance in space

And a picture of the graveyard cake I baked for the bakesale:

Most delicious graveyard I've ever eaten

aaaaand the Pumpkin we carved for the Pumpkin Carve-off at work:

No mercy for gourds in Pumpkin Hell

My pumpkin-carving team was my co-worker Jess, our boss Libby and Pau, the Tech manager dude. It was great! We had 40 minutes to do this. Libby brought her dremmel tool and the little gourds. We carved up the little ones and each little gourd had a tea light in it. Unfortunately, we didn’t win, but I know ours was technically the best as far as carving went.

I handed out Candy at Jess’ house and the highlight was seeing a kid dressed up as “Indiana Bones”. We went to the supermarket in Kensington and had a good time too, despite some douchery.

Something about halloween + drinking + skanks = douchery. It’s inevietable but we didn’t let it get us donw!

I had so much fun! Now that it’s all over, I’ve taken down the halloween edition of anitabot – but don’t worry there will be another.

See the rest of my Halloween pictures here!

Tags: baking, cake, costume, graveyard cake, halloween

New website, cupcakes and early Saturday morning.

I (finally) converted my entire site over to wordpress! Bye-bye PHP. I also got rid of my “work” page, since that was mostly put up when I was looking for a job.  I started from the ground up, with a fresh Wordpress install, finding a nice simple theme that I could adapt to my needs and then eventually moving the blog itself to the root directory. No more “/blog” business.  Now that it’s front and center, I really need to update it

a cupcake I made once

Why am I awake at 8:00 on Saturday morning? Good question. I’d normally never see this side of a weekend, but I’ve taken on a part time job at the Cupcake shop my friend works at! I’m doing my first shift today – just a few hours training getting familiarized with processes and what not. I’m a bit nervous but mostly excited to use a different part of my brain, to be working in a real bakery, and to be working with my friend!

(I took cake decorating class with this friend, our passion for baking goes deep and so this should be extra fun).

This reminds me, I have to re-do the Anitabot icon with a chef’s hat. It’s actually somewhat appropriate now

Tags: baking, cupcakes, website

Lego Batman Video Game Cake!

Two posts in one day! This is important.

First there was Lego. Then there was Star Wars. Then there was the brilliance that was Lego Star Wars. Following that was the Genius that is Lego Star Wars the VIDEO GAME (See the trend here? Taking things Anitabot likes and combining them).  Seeing how well that did, Lego Indiana Jones was born, followed by probably the best of the series: Lego Batman the Video Game. (I’m playing it right now, I like it a lot). I didn’t think it could get any better than this, but then i find out (through JessPlease) that for the launch party of the game (to which I was somehow not invited to – must have gotten lost in the mail), Elissa Strauss (the writer of the “Confetti Cakes” book that I own and swear by) created a LEGO BATMAN VIDEO GAME CAKE.

That is just a series of words that are things I like:
Lego
Batman
Video Game
Cake

This is almost as awesome as when Aardman decided to make a Wallace & Gromit movie that featured BUNNIES.  (Awesomer than that would be a Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit video game cake). 

Anywho, Here is a picture I found from Elissa’s Confetti Cakes Blog. I can’t believe I didn’t find these earlier!

Click on the pic/links to go to her post

(all photos belong to the Confetti Cakes Blog)

Lego Batman Video Game Cake

Le Swoon!  I think I need to make a Lego Anitabot … and then game… followed by cake. with bunnies.

Tags: baking, batman, Bunnies, cake, lego, lego batman, video games