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How can I make this 'Bulge Cake' look more realistic?

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IMakeCrapCakes · 10/02/2024 10:25

Don't ask but I made this cake on request. I am not a baker, just someone who makes cakes for friend's birthdays. This is for a friend but he's closer to other friends than me and they asked me for this design.

I wanted to do the trousers/shorts grey but I couldn't get the colour right so decided on white.

I was thinking, could I put some creases in somehow? So it looks a bit less 'cartoony'?
Would you know what it was meant to be?
TIA.
(Yes I've name changed). It's only a bit of fun, people know I am not a cake decorator! I've made 'novelty' cakes for a few different people but how 'wrong' they look is just part of it!

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IMakeCrapCakes · 04/04/2025 17:10

🤣
I am perpetually single and I suppose have acquired various a bit of all sorts different friend groups as a result! 🙂

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IMakeCrapCakes · 07/04/2025 17:50

I'm going to try to make something a bit like this.

For some reason I can't quite understand how best to get the shape?
Obviously I'm going to make a large round cake first, but how would you go about getting the ammonite shape form it?

I'm being really thick here probably!🤣

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JimothyHalpert · 07/04/2025 18:28

Just cut it where I’ve marked in red @IMakeCrapCakes

(and then eat that bit!)

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pickledandpuzzled · 07/04/2025 19:26

Mentally mark out a 1/4 slice of the cake (red, in the picture.
Cut from one edge of the slice to halfway along the other edge- the purple mark.

That wedge will be a triangle with two curved edges- like a fang.
Ideally you’ll scoop out that area a little to look like the opening where the snail lives.

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IMakeCrapCakes · 07/04/2025 20:45

Thank you so much both of you! Both useful and appreciated. I hope this one goes okay! 🙂

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IMakeCrapCakes · 10/04/2025 19:44

Jigger for scale (I'd actually used it to help me mark the cake, I hadn't been on the whiskey)🤣

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pickledandpuzzled · 10/04/2025 20:05

Oh Bravo!

IMakeCrapCakes · 11/04/2025 02:33

IMakeCrapCakes · 19/07/2024 17:15

Please tell me you have a photo @BruceAndNosh
@feelingalittlehorse thank you! And thanks everyone. I will update this thread with every crap cake I create from now on 😂

My brain works better at 03:00 I have realised, because I just re-read this when I clicked on page to respond to the latest, and thought 'Hmm, wonder if I could open a 'crap cake' business!

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IMakeCrapCakes · 11/04/2025 02:40

pickledandpuzzled · 10/04/2025 20:05

Oh Bravo!

Well, I showed it to a friend who guessed (in this order);

Dog Turd
Sea Urchin (!)
Cow Pat
Fossil.

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IMakeCrapCakes · 28/04/2025 06:30

This was a particularly slapdash attempt at an Easter cake, even I admit I can do much better however an Easter gathering was sprung on me an hour and a half before the event (in which time I also had to walk my dog and shower/prepare other things) so I could've also done a lot worse!🤣

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user1471462634 · 28/04/2025 08:17

Your Easter cake still looks crap but in a really, really good way!

Will look out for your 'Crap Cakes' business when needing one made!

IMakeCrapCakes · 19/05/2025 11:16

It was my smokes a lot friend's birthday again recently (I've scribbled the name out)

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user1471462634 · 19/05/2025 18:21

Well done IMakeCrapCakes, your smoker friend will no doubt love it!

GauntJudy · 19/05/2025 19:00

Excellent tankard @IMakeCrapCakes

burglaraphobia · 19/05/2025 19:45

to answer your question - it needs some flies down the front/zipper and I'd drawn some shallow pockets on it with a bit of stitching along side the pocket. Take your inspiration from jeans.

It's no work of art so I'd just draw them on: -

https://www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk/edible-cake-decorations-c20/edible-pens-markers-c143

Edible Cake Decorating Pens & Markers | The Cake Decorating Company

We sell a range of quality edible ink pens and markers that allow you to easily colour intricate details on to your creations.

https://www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk/edible-cake-decorations-c20/edible-pens-markers-c143

feelingalittlehorse · 19/05/2025 19:48

IMakeCrapCakes · 19/05/2025 11:16

It was my smokes a lot friend's birthday again recently (I've scribbled the name out)

Has it really been a year since you burst into my online life with such baked joy?! Excellent creation once again @IMakeCrapCakes . Your friend would love it and I would also like to be your friend

IMakeCrapCakes · 30/05/2025 13:04

user1471462634 · 19/05/2025 18:21

Well done IMakeCrapCakes, your smoker friend will no doubt love it!

He did or at least it seemed he did 😆

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IMakeCrapCakes · 30/05/2025 13:04

feelingalittlehorse · 19/05/2025 19:48

Has it really been a year since you burst into my online life with such baked joy?! Excellent creation once again @IMakeCrapCakes . Your friend would love it and I would also like to be your friend

Aww thank you.
Yes, a year! Time indeed does go so fast.
And I spend a lot of mine making crap cakes. 😂

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IMakeCrapCakes · 30/05/2025 13:05

burglaraphobia · 19/05/2025 19:45

to answer your question - it needs some flies down the front/zipper and I'd drawn some shallow pockets on it with a bit of stitching along side the pocket. Take your inspiration from jeans.

It's no work of art so I'd just draw them on: -

https://www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk/edible-cake-decorations-c20/edible-pens-markers-c143

Thank you for the link, obviously the first cake has long since been eaten (I hope) but I like the look of some of those decorating tools for future.

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IMakeCrapCakes · 30/05/2025 13:07

Cake for (a different) gay male friend. I used a decal for the logo, I'm not that good to do one myself!

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burglaraphobia · 01/06/2025 13:30

That's quite some crap cake.

I have no idea what the phallus thing is supposed to be - the eyes are throwing me off.

Is it supposed to be a penis vertically upwards - eyes on the glans? what's the one lump next to it then?

Or is it supposed to be a penis downwards -eyes on one of the testicles? and the other lump a second testicle? why does only one testicle have eyes?

There's a few sentences I never thought I'd need in life.

I'm very confused and have wasted valuable minutes of my life consumed by these futile wonderings about a crap cake cock.

GauntJudy · 01/06/2025 13:41

Is he a finger mouse fan?

IMakeCrapCakes · 02/06/2025 09:15

Both the balls have eyes, maybe one's just a bit wonky.
I did the balls like 'cake pops'. And the shaft. Although perhaps I should've circumcised it...

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PollySolo · 02/06/2025 09:55

IMakeCrapCakes · 02/06/2025 09:15

Both the balls have eyes, maybe one's just a bit wonky.
I did the balls like 'cake pops'. And the shaft. Although perhaps I should've circumcised it...

It looks like a deformed parsnip I currently have in my vegetable drawer.

burglaraphobia · 02/06/2025 16:20

Both the balls have eyes, maybe one's just a bit wonky.

so it's supposed to be one eye per testicle? That's strange. Aren't they their own person? Shouldn't they each have two?

Cyclopian balls.

It does look like one has two and the other has none though.

Thanks for this. It's life enchancing. 🤔