Playing with your Wii is incredibly fun. Playing with your friend’s Wii is a mighty fine experience as well. Having a Wii in your mouth and savoring the delicious taste as it melts on your tongue is only something we could dream about. Until now.
In Wired Magazine Issue 15.08, there is a “How To Bake a Wii Cake” article. Unfortunately for all of us it looks tremendously better than it tastes. Apparently it is meant for viewing only as the taste is not too great. In my opinion, if you are going to call something a cake, it should be absolutely delicious and sinfully sweet. I am also slightly confused on why the controller is not size proportionate to the console. In fact that whole cake looks too large to be accurate. Those statements may have revealed a little more of my geekiness than I wanted publicly known. Never mind.
Don’t bother reading the directions on how to make this cake. They are nowhere detailed enough to actually make the final product. You can’t eat it, you can’t follow the guide to make it, thank goodness this cake at least looks good. If she would have decorated it with a pink skin, it would have been even better. Then I wouldn’t have even cared that it tasted like cardboard.
Posted by Tortacular on July 26, 2007 at 10:33 am
Maybe she was using the jailhouse recipe.
Posted by CroftRaider on July 26, 2007 at 1:31 pm
I know! I was disappointed too at first…especially at the fact that you have to multiply a regular cake recipe 24 times to make the giant cake!
But then…I thought about what would happen if I added the baking soda back in and laid the cake on its side and didn’t make it super giant (granted, that’s a lot of ifs)? Then, following the rest of the directions might be worth it, though I’m not sure I’d really want to eat it or just admire my handiwork.
Posted by bs angel on July 26, 2007 at 4:39 pm
That’s the hard thing about labors of love, they are difficult to part with regardless of if you give them away, consume them, whatever that may be. Once you pour heart into a project it is not easy letting that thing go.
So if I took the time to make this, I would need some super technology to preserve it forever. : )
Posted by Gaming with Baby on July 26, 2007 at 6:19 pm
First of all, I’m a fan. Love your blog. Second, if you want the full skinny on that cake, including the fact that Martha Stewart didn’t have anything to do with it, then check what I’ve posted over at my blog.
http://gamingwithbaby.blogspot.com/2007/07/mmmmmmmm-wii-cake.html
Posted by bs angel on July 26, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I have read your article as well, just a few days ago I believe. It was from your article that I learned there is no way I could possibly make that cake myself. LOL!
Thanks for the link.
Posted by Silvercube on July 26, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Wow. Now you can finally have some wii and eat it too.
that takes the cake!
lol
Posted by thewilleffect on July 27, 2007 at 9:50 am
Where’s the 360 cake love, Martha? Shame on you Martha! :)
Posted by Essays on March 22, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Wired’s covers are consistently creative.
Posted by Waffle Deluxe on February 21, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I wonder if it tastes good?