This cake was for the Grand Opening party of a local Play’N'Trade store. They asked that I incoperate a Tetris theme with nods to many of the games and companies that have directly or indirectly supported them. The little caricatures are the employees.
There are lots of references here to many games and game companies, especially local developers and retro games. We’ve got a lot of close-up pictures of individual pieces if you’d like to see any in particular. The list: 5th Cell, ArenaNet, Atari, Batman, Bungie, Donkey Kong, Half-Life, Halo, Mario Brothers, Microsoft Game Studios, Monolith, Mass Effect, Pacman, Penny-Arcade, Scribblenauts, Sony, Square-Enix, Wii, Xbox, and Zelda.
All pieces are made with fondant and hand-painted by myself and my roommate, Dee. The cake itself is based on the classic Cosmopolitan drink.
Making this cake involved a bit of planning. There were many sketches done to figure out just how the pieces would lay and their sizes, and which pieces would be what game/company. Upon being made we laid them out in the cake pan to make adjustments to their fit before being stuck on the fondant-covered cake with a thin water-icing ‘glue’.
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