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The Christmas season is over, but I found an LotR version of that perennial holiday favorite - gingerbread/candy house - that a fan and friends created: The Battle of Helm's Deep! The site shows pictures of a wonderfully quirky work of sub-creativity - and doesn't it look yummy too! :p (That's me fantasizing about helping to "dispose" of it afterwards - though it would be a shame to destroy such a fantastic scenario!)


Oh, and here's more: LotR Desserts...

Sir,

Why, it's a disgrace! Encouraging children to play with their food? If I had done such a thing I would have been sent to bed without any supper! I think Anne Widdecombe should be told and then heads will roll. The youth of today don't know they have been born.

Yours,

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

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That just beats hands down my childhood efforts at making 'authentic' farmland scenes in my dinner by ploughing fields in my mashed potatoes and adding broccoli hedgerows and carrot dry stone walls. Fabulous. :D

Fantastic- my cousin did a cake for her daughter's 18th birthday last month of Discworld balanced on the Great A tuin and supported by 4 fondant elephants. It was so wonderful we couldn't bear to cut it. I wonder if for my birthday ..well I wouldn't expect ALL of Middle Earth as a cake ..but Rivendell or Caras Galadhon would be nice ...

And for the matrimonially inclined how about Minas Tirith formed with a 7 tiered wedding cake.... Lal ..I think that is the way to go ;)

As long as we're linking to caloric LotR versions, here's another: Lord of the Peeps.


Oh, the Minas Tirith wedding cake idea is splendid, Mithalwen!

I'm afraid davem would form a kind of metaphorical superior Orc regiment and utterly demolish Minas Tirith within hours if it was in cake form. It'd last longer if made from carrots and other vegetable matter... :D

Personally I'd be quite tempted by a Dead Marshes cheese fondue with bits of garlic floating in it to represent the dead Elveses...

Following the links around the internet, I found another goodie: Shelob cake. Now isn't that appetizing?!

My last birthday my father (:p) and my little sister made me a cake that looked like the map of Middle-Earth. (The chocolate-mountains were really cool... and tasted great!) They had the birthday candles set in important places, such as Hobbiton, Minas Tirith, Edoras, Esgaroth, Barad-dûr... It was very fine, a bit too big (they wanted it big enough to show the details) and I'm very sad I didn't take a photo of it! (Hope they'll make me a new one some year....)

Well, someone is just lucky... :( :mad: (ENVY!!!)
The only similar thing I remember in my life was me trying to make lembas when I was about 9 years old... I still wonder by what miracle our kitchen didn't catch fire... and that it was almost edible in the end (although it was probably as close to lembas as to a baked balrog wing... no wonder, since I made the recipe myself...).

Was it an extra big flaming eye candle for Barad-dur? Well done Noggie and Sister of Lommie..

I have decided that a Cerin Amroth cake would be great - fulfilling my profound longing for mellyrn in combination with a cake that could be eaten (the hill bit saing the sugar craft trees) ....


And Lal..wouldn't attacking a cake Minas Tirith be so much more fun than most wedding receptions? You could have load little catapaults with maltesers for added chocolate ... :D

But if you won't have it as a wedding cake .. how about a confectionery based reconstruction of the battle of the Pellenor Fields as an Oxonmoot event ..... got to be better than that chap's singing ;) .

davem wants a Homer Simpson cake from Tesco. But I like the sound of malteser catapults, with all the potential for a food fight.
:D

I'm all for some messing about with food at Oxonmoot! Can we involve some bacon and cheese as I'm partial to me savouries? I could make Cheesestring ropes, pork pie rock missiles, and chicken wing fell beasts. Tell you what, the Dark side can be savoury and Gondor can be sweet! The Dead Army can be represented by me, hoovering up all that meat and cheese...and to keep davem happy, we shall represent the River Anduin with a trail of Hobgoblin ale with little boats made from cheese Doritos and Mars bars.

Listen, some macrobiotic food made of mung beans and carpet would be better than that singing...

This is a very good idea!

:D

nice idea, maybe Battle of the Pelennor Fields next with candy Mumaks?

A couple of years ago my birthday cake was an ice cream cake decorated as the Gates of Moria. A bit tricky for the poor cake decorator, but it turned out quite lovely. I really hated to eat it...

I'm sure my mom has a picture of it somewhere. I suppose I could ask her to email it to me so I could post what it looked like. :)

Fortunately I don't think Gillian McKeith is a Tolkien Soc member ;) ... On the savoury side I will mock up mount doom as a setting for my Chocolate fountain but run it with thai chili sauce instead ... have prawn tempura orcs ..love Japanese food..

and how about lamb cutlet spiders?

Brinniel ...that sounds incredible .. if it wouldn't be too much trouble for your mamma ? *looks hopeful*

Gummy orcs, now wouldn't they take the cake! :D

I found a rather bizarre link when I tried to google Tolkien Food under images. This is the image I got, from an American library website, Book Buzz:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64...tilityFood.jpg

I wonder if it has something to do with hobbit dietary practices? ;)

If the McKeith woman is a member then I'll soon get rid of her with my tobacco habit...

Teriyaki Orc would be very tasty - could use strips of chicken and mushroom with noodles for their whips. And for spiders how about queen scallops with strings of dill for their legs ("they don't need them...")? I think Sauron though must be the supreme goods of all savoury foods...how about a great big (red) rib-eye steak? ;)

The Shelob cake reminds of Steal Magnolias when Shelby's (Julia Roberts) mother-in-law made that armadillo cake with red velvet insides. I suppose Shelob would have lime green insides.

Here's my attempt at Ted Nasmith's Bag End as seen on the front cover of The Hobbit (Bantam). It was for my second daughter's fifth birthday back in '02. We didn't get to eat it cause I stored it over night in the oven and didn't realize the pilot light would melt it.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...g?t=1169735055

i shall never look at helms deep again.... so much sacrafice so much pain and suffering oh yeah and all that sugar.

someone should make the death of denethor frame by frame, be fun seeing a flaming gummy bear or something falling off a table done up as minis tirith

Well, I'm finally back home with access to old photographs. Since it's been requested, I shall post some pictures of my birthday cake.

The first photo shows off the decoration pretty nicely. The cake decorator really did a wonderful job. The second photo has a nice touch with a miniature of Glamdring in the background.

Happy 16?! Almost three years ago...has it really been that long?! :eek:

I'll have to poke around for the picture, but for my sister's birthday a couple years ago my mom and I teamed up to make a Legolas cake. It was just a sheet cake with Orli's face and some Sindarin on it... but I tell you what, making flesh-coloured icing is HARD!!
In downtown Pittsburgh they have a gingerbread house competition every Christmas, and there've been some LotR-themed houses. The winner this year, though, was the Old Lady and her Shoe... made mostly out of after-dinner mints...

Brinn, that cake is (was, actually, I suppose :D) awesome!

Thanks, though I must really give credit to the decorator. I was told she had quite a hard time making it, but she really managed to pull off wonders with a tube of frosting.

And I must say, it was quite tasty too. :p

Here's this year's Christmas project by the gummy artists who created Helm's Deep last year: Minas Tirith and the Battle of Pelennor Fields. For the YouTube tour, see here. Isn't the White City absolutely fantastic?! A bit more colorful than imagined, perhaps, but all the more interesting that way...

Several sweet versions of LotR can be found on Cake Wrecks.

Holy Elbereth, Batman!

For my birthday this year, Laurinque and I made a Barrow-Downs cake. it was lovely to eat. This cake also made it into the Downer!
We put four Barrows on it, we made Barrow-Wights out of green jelly babies!

From the makers of epic gummy battles comes a new work of art, Smaug the Magnificent.

Last year's project, The Mines of Moria, also deserves a link of its own.

More Smaug, this time as the new 2010 Tolkien Cake.

And from the same source, an awesome Witch King and wonderful Bag End!

I'm in awe of these cakes. It makes me want to break out all my baking supplies and see what I can do.

One of my favourite sites, Cake Wrecks, has a special edition of Hobbit cakes today. Enjoy!

The detail is amazing!

http://betweenthepagesblog.typepad.c...0890e08970b-pi

This gorgeous Arwen/Aragorn-themed wedding cake can be found here.