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Estelyn Telcontar · 01-19-2005, 02:19 AM

Lyta, that cake is absolutely hilarious! Especially since that foaming-at-the-mouth scene is one I find more funny than scary... Do you have a friend or family member who came up with that wonderful cake decorating idea, or was it your own?

Lalwendë · 01-19-2005, 05:44 AM

Lyta - how does the whole vinegar thing work? Didn't your cake taste of it? I'm intrigued now and have to know!

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Originally Posted by Esgallhugwen

Also comes complete with a Legolas wig, thats right yout too can share the Elven Princes luxurious blonde hair.

You really can buy a Legolas/Bloom wig. And you can also buy a Gandalf 'kit' with the wig and beard, and I'm sure I saw an 'Aragorn kit' somewhere. I've never yet seen any Saruman fingernails though, nor a set of fake 'Gollum teeth'.

I have seen Gollum socks though.

Lyta_Underhill · 01-19-2005, 10:23 AM

Actually, the Foaming Frodo action figure was a running joke that both me and my husband came up with, and he decided on his own to translate it into a cake for my birthday! He also chivalrously declared he would eat the portion covered with the 'foam,' as we had no actual vinegar in the house but had to use pickle juice! (thus the slightly yellow color that makes it look a bit worse in the photo!) He used so little that it didn't change the taste all that much, really, since most of it wiped off. Also having a rich chocolate cake and heavy cream cheese icing helped overwhelm any odd taste from the 'foam.'

The vinegar had to be added at performance time, but the baking soda was stuffed into the premade hole in the Frodo cake's mouth and when the two came together, it was quite theatrical, as the effect was much like Alka-Seltzer in water, creating a lot of CO2 very quickly! Perhaps this year, I should have a Mount Doom cake!

Cheers,
Lyta

Esgallhugwen · 01-19-2005, 02:16 PM

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You really can buy a Legolas/Bloom wig. And you can also buy a Gandalf 'kit' with the wig and beard, and I'm sure I saw an 'Aragorn kit' somewhere. I've never yet seen any Saruman fingernails though, nor a set of fake 'Gollum teeth'. I have seen Gollum socks though.

I know that already, but does the wig come with a patented Legolas hair-grow doll? Hmmmmm. I thought so

I used to have one of those dolls except either I or someone else cut the hair so she sort of had a mullet, buzzed look going. That would be hilarious.

And now for a limited time your Hair Growing Legolas™ comes free with pretty pink and purple bows for your fashion convenience and fashion fun.

Elvish cat walk sold separately.

01-19-2005, 02:19 AM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Lyta, that cake is absolutely hilarious! Especially since that foaming-at-the-mouth scene is one I find more funny than scary... Do you have a friend or family member who came up with that wonderful cake decorating idea, or was it your own? __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

01-19-2005, 10:23 AM	#3
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Actually, the Foaming Frodo action figure was a running joke that both me and my husband came up with, and he decided on his own to translate it into a cake for my birthday! He also chivalrously declared he would eat the portion covered with the 'foam,' as we had no actual vinegar in the house but had to use pickle juice! (thus the slightly yellow color that makes it look a bit worse in the photo!) He used so little that it didn't change the taste all that much, really, since most of it wiped off. Also having a rich chocolate cake and heavy cream cheese icing helped overwhelm any odd taste from the 'foam.' The vinegar had to be added at performance time, but the baking soda was stuffed into the premade hole in the Frodo cake's mouth and when the two came together, it was quite theatrical, as the effect was much like Alka-Seltzer in water, creating a lot of CO2 very quickly! Perhaps this year, I should have a Mount Doom cake! Cheers, Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”