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Well, This Just Really Sucks...
by Benjamin Morse · submitted Aug 3, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
On more than one occasion, after staring at a row of absolutely useless Scrabble letters, I have contemplated just swallowing a few Q's and X's while no one was looking. The idea of choking down small wooden tiles, at the very least, seems unpleasant, if not outright cheating (though this is not specifically mentioned in the rules) unless.... the tiles were made of CAKE!!! Of course. Why didn't I think of this sooner. It took a hilarious Threadless T-shirt design and a cake-making contest to make my delicious Scrabble maneuver a reality.
My edible Scrabble design is made up of a Vanilla Butter cake iced in a lemon flavored Italian Meringue Buttercream. It includes a sculpted cake replica of the "Scrabble tile shelf/holder wooden thingy" (I don't know it's official name) and individual mini cake tiles. Both are covered in a wood colored fondant. The 3-D elements are atop a 2-D chocolate brown T-shirt that's actually made of chocolate flavored fondant. The tile letters are cut-outs, but the numbers and illustrated lines were hand painted. The whole process, including baking, took about a day.
While constructing my Scrabble design inspired cake was challenging, it was all worth it when I finally got the chance to chomp down on those sweet, sweet Scrabble tiles. Can you spell delicious? MMMM....Triple Word Score.
My edible Scrabble design is made up of a Vanilla Butter cake iced in a lemon flavored Italian Meringue Buttercream. It includes a sculpted cake replica of the "Scrabble tile shelf/holder wooden thingy" (I don't know it's official name) and individual mini cake tiles. Both are covered in a wood colored fondant. The 3-D elements are atop a 2-D chocolate brown T-shirt that's actually made of chocolate flavored fondant. The tile letters are cut-outs, but the numbers and illustrated lines were hand painted. The whole process, including baking, took about a day.
While constructing my Scrabble design inspired cake was challenging, it was all worth it when I finally got the chance to chomp down on those sweet, sweet Scrabble tiles. Can you spell delicious? MMMM....Triple Word Score.