• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Celebration Generation
  • About
  • Recipes
  • Life
  • Shop
  • Costuming
  • Spandex
  • Gluten-Free
  • Autism
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • About Us
  • Recipes
  • Life
  • Shop
  • Costuming
  • Gluten-Free
  • Autism
  • Contact Us
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Media
  • Join us on Social Media - Food

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
  • Join us on Social Media - Costuming, Etc

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Twitter
  • ×

    Home » Business Announcements

    So, I made a Cake for Amanda Palmer... (NSFW)

    Published: Jul 29, 2021

    Note: This site is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for the site to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites.

    Sharing is caring!

    • Yummly
    • Reddit
    • Email
    • Tweet
    • Share
    • Tumblr

    So, I Made a Cake for Amanda Palmer...

    Originally published August 15, 2013. Updated on 7/29/2021

    Amanda Palmer standing behind a cake that looks like a pile of breasts.

    So, I made a Cake for Amanda Palmer... (NSFW). One thing led to another, and I ended up sculpting cake into a pile of boobs.

    As someone with no filter to speak of, I've historically had to rely on others to be my "That's not appropriate" guide.

    I am the queen of "It seemed like a great idea at the time!" (See: "What if I audition for a reality show?", for example!).

    My husband and friends are such enablers, that a lot of my crazy ideas end up coming through to fruition. "Let's tile pi into our kitchen!", "Let's tile Fibonaaci into our bathroom wall, because I love Mathnet!".

    "Let's make costumes and dress up as Weeping Angels!", "How about we do a tornado-smashed gingerbread house?".

    "Silence of the Lambs is a perfectly legit 'food and wine' theme for my competition cake for a fancy Food and Wine show!"

    ... sure, some people think I'm crazy, but hey... we have a lot of fun!

    The lack of "That's taking it a bit far..." guidance in my life led to last night, and my very first boob cake - years after retiring from the cake business. Let me back up a bit here...

    Amanda Palmer in Minneapolis

    My friend Michelle was involved with the organization of Amanda Palmer's Minneapolis Kickstarter House Party.

    The theme was extravagance, and she offered me the opportunity to make a crazy cake for the event. While I'm still pretty caked out, I thought this would be a fun break from everything else, and a chance to flex some creative muscle.

    Plus, the event was WAY in the future - I think this conversation happened a year ago - so it gave me time to "recover". 🙂

    Flash forward to last week. In the midst of doing promotion for my new cookbook ("Sweet Corn Spectacular"), and with the release of my latest Spandex sewing manual ("Fitness and Bodybuilding") coming up in just a couple weeks, I sat down with Michelle to hash out design ideas for the cake.

    Between the guest of honour being so ripe for inspiration, and the theme - "extravagance" - being vague enough to not really guide or hamper design possibilities, it was really hard to narrow down what direction we wanted to go with the design.

    The one thing that we knew for sure was that it would be chai flavoured - my most popular flavour from back in my cake days, the flavour that I get the most compliments about from my cake cookbook, "Evil Cake Overlord", and it was the flavour that I'd served as a TARDIS cake at Wootstock, where I'd met Amanda's husband - Neil Gaiman.

    ... in other words, it's the flavour I've kind of become known for. (Here’s my Chai Cake Recipe!)

    We'd tossed out a few ideas for design, between myself, Michelle, and her boyfriend Peter. Nothing was really grabbing me, so I joked:

    "Why don't we just do a pile of boobs? Hahaha!"

    They laughed, and then stopped. It just clicked with all three of us at once, and all of a sudden I was on track to make my first boob cake ever.

    (If you have no idea why we picked that, check out this coverage of Amanda Palmer's response to a sleezy "Daily Mail" article about her: Amanda Palmer: "Dear Daily Mail").

    Designing the Boob Cake

    We decided that it would be a varied representation of boobs: Different shapes, sizes, and skin tones. Different types of nipples.

    A 9 part compilation image, showing the progression of the cake creation.

    We'd have some pierced, maybe a tattoo, and a mastectomy scar. As Peter put it, it would be "Boobucopia: A boob for everyone".

    The whole thing would be accented with piped frosting "black lace", to represent the bras that these boobs would be "escaping from".

    A two part photo showing different views of the boob cake.

    I'll admit, I was a bit nervous. It's been half a year since I last baked a cake - the one I served to Gordon Ramsay on MasterChef. It's been a FULL year since I last decorated a cake - the "Robots and Doughnuts" one I did for an art show cake competition.

    I was honestly kind of worried that I'd be out of practice!

    In the end, I was really happy with the results:

    4 part image showing different views of the pile of boobs cake.

    We delivered it to the James J Hill House for the event last night, and I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

    I've got to say, I don't miss the stress of delivering tiered, carved cakes halfway across the city.

    Due to the shape of the carving, the cake wasn't the most balanced and stable cake ever... "My boobs were wobbling and bouncing" the whole way there, LOL!

    The pile of boobs cake.

    We finally got to relax, sit back, and just take in the responses to the cake.

    All of the planning and effort (and destroying the "purity" of my browser history! LOL!) to get a variety of boobs was definitely appreciated, as people oohed and ahhed over them. The final tally had the cake at:

    11 boobs
    5 different custom blended skin tones
    2 piercings
    2 tattoos
    1 mastectomy scar
    1 tan line
    1 with freckles
    1 with a birth mark

    2 part image showing different views of the pile of boobs cake.

    I want to give a big shout out to my friend Julie Schanke-Lyford at Fabulous Functions for helping us out with a last minute decor crisis, and hooking us up with reasonably priced linen rental... at the last minute!

    I can't imagine how busy she must be right now - summer is always a busy time for wedding planners, but Julie has been actively promoting GLBT rights and serving the gay wedding market since before it was "socially acceptable" to do so - Now that "gay weddings" can just be "weddings"... she must be swamped.

    About time!

    Be sure to check out her Facebook page, here.

    Anyway.

    Amanda arrived, loved the cake - dubbed it "BREASTS OF ALL NATIONS" - and many photos were taken and tweeted:

    Amanda Palmer looking at her boob cake.

    Amanda Palmer standing behind a cake that looks like a pile of breasts.

    Amanda Palmer standing behind a cake that looks like a pile of breasts.

    Amanda Palmer standing behind a cake that looks like a pile of breasts.

    ... and then she had the idea to get EVERYONE together and do a big, "Wedding style" cake cutting, en masse. Hilarity ensued as she handed out cake and instructed everyone to NOT EAT IT til she was ready.

    Amanda Palmer cutting and serving her pile of boobs cake.

    Amanda Palmer cutting and serving her pile of boobs cake.

    Amanda Palmer cutting and serving her pile of boobs cake.

    On her mark, everyone fed cake to the people next to them... it was pretty awesome, I've never seen anything like it!

    Amanda Palmer cutting and serving her pile of boobs cake.

    Amanda Palmer cutting and serving her pile of boobs cake.

    ... and then the cake no longer looked like a big pile of boobs!

    Cross section of the cake, 4 layers of chai cake, with frosting.

    Everyone ate, drank, and socialized before filing into the music room for the coziest little concert I've ever been to.

    My husband was the official photographer, and took several hundred photos of the evening - bookmark (I seriously just typed that as "boobmark"!) this blog entry and check back in a few days for a link to the online album he'll be posting!

    In the meantime, Click here to visit my Facebook page album for this entry, to see larger sized images of those you see here!

    What a great night!

    More Cake Photos

    Interested in seeing - and reading - more details of some of my favourite cakes I’ve made over the years? Check out these links:

    Bubble Bobble Wedding Cake
    Clarice, Have the Lambs Stopped Screaming?
    Dalek Cake for a Doctor
    Lambeth Wedding Cake
    Meringue Flowers
    Snowflakes Wedding Cake
    Spumoni Cake & The Art of Trolling Cake Competitions
    That Time I Made a Cake for a Pack of Klingons
    The Story of Foopmallet
    TARDIS for Wil Wheaton
    Tremors Wedding Cake

    Cover image for the "Evil Cake Overlord" cookbook.  A band of purple crosses the cover, which displays 5 different cakes.

    Interested in making wickedly delicious cakes? You'll LOVE my second cookbook, Evil Cake Overlord!

    We've long been known for our “ridiculously delicious” moist cakes and tasty, unique flavors. Now, you can have recipes for all of the amazing flavors on our former custom cake menu, and many more!

    Bake your moist work of gastronomic art, then fill and frost your cake with any number of tasty possibilities. Milk chocolate cardamom pear, mango mojito.. even our famous Chai cake – the flavor that got us into “Every Day with Rachel Ray” magazine!

    Feeling creative? Use our easy to follow recipe to make our yummy fondant. Forget everything you’ve heard about fondant – ours is made from marshmallows and powdered sugar, and is essentially candy – you can even flavor it!

    Order your copy directly through my site, through Amazon, or through any major bookseller!

    Cake Recipes!

    Looking for some ridiculously delicious cake recipes? As the "Evil Cake Overlord", I've got you covered! (Ps: Check out my instructions for making Marshmallow Fondant, as well!)

    Tortes:
    B-52 Torte
    Bahama Mama Torte
    Blood Orange Truffle Torte
    Citrus Splendor Torte
    Cookies N Cream Cake
    Raspberry Tiramisu Torte
    Schmoo Torte
    Spumoni Cake
    Tiger Tail Cake

    Bundt, Sheet, & Upside Down Cakes
    Bananas Foster Upside Down Cake
    Brandied Apple Upside Down Cake
    Deep N Delicious Cake
    French Martini Bundt Cake
    French Martini Upside Down Cake
    Mango Mojito Upside Down Cake
    Pina Colada Bundt Cake
    Strawberry Mango Marble Cake

    Cupcakes:
    3D Monarch Butterfly Cupcakes
    Easy Butterfly Cupcakes
    Fat Elvis Cupcakes
    Lynchburg Lemonade Cupcakes
    Pink Grapefruit Daiquiri Cupcakes

    Also: I have Cake Decorating Tutorials, and posts about previous Decorated Cakes that I've made.

    Share the Love!

    Before you chow down, be sure to take some pics of your handiwork! If you instagram it, be sure to tag me - @CelebrationGenerationCA - or post it to My Facebook Page - so I can cheer you on!

    Also, be sure to subscribe to my free monthly email newsletter, so you never miss out on any of my nonsense.

    Well, the published nonsense, anyway!

    Related posts:

    The Silence of the Lambs Cake Wil Wheaton under a table, taking a photo of the TARDIS Cake. W00tstock Awesomeness An ornately piped wedding cake, done in the lambeth style. Each layer is adorned with many layers of piping, overpiping, swags, scallops, and more. The cake is mostly white, with pale pink and green accents in the form of rosebuds. Lambeth Wedding Cake Colin Baker admiring the Dalek Cake Dalek Cake for a Doctor!
    « The Toilet Paper Wars
    Air Fryer Cream Cheese Wontons »

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Gregory Wright

      August 15, 2013 at 11:28 am

      Words fail. Too much cool.

      Reply
    2. Andrea

      August 15, 2013 at 11:37 am

      OMFG! I know the girl with ultra pale hair. That's another girl from the VLOG group, Nina! I'm glad to see her and Michelle here.

      About the boob cake, it's nicely done, even though I tend to avoid talking about breasts. The one with the mast scar has to me the most meaning, since it raises awareness. Nice job, Marie! 🙂

      Reply
      • Marie Porter

        August 15, 2013 at 11:46 am

        She actually asked me how I know YOU!

        Reply
        • Andrea

          August 15, 2013 at 12:41 pm

          Haha, for real? That's great.

          Reply
    3. Sue

      August 15, 2013 at 5:48 pm

      The cake was perfect.

      Reply
    4. Kristin

      September 02, 2013 at 10:47 pm

      I saw the picture of the cake when Amanda instagrammed and tweeted it...truly fabulous! When my husband saw the cake, he said he wants one like it for his next birthday. I'd love any tips or hints on the most effective way to construct a similar cake.

      Reply
      • Marie Porter

        September 03, 2013 at 6:57 am

        Well, the cake was made in 3 tiers, each carved, iced, and fondanted separately before being stacked.

        The top tier was two 6" rounds, torted to 4 layers.

        The middle tier was an 8" and a 10" round, torted to 4 layers and assembled with the 8s on top and bottom, and 10s in the middle.

        The bottom tier was a 12" and 10" round, assembled the same as the middle tier.

        I carved them, frosted, and fondanted them, stacked them, and then did the decoration.

        All of the lighter skin colours came from airbrushing them with food colouring, I use Americolor gels dissolved in vodka.

        The darker skin colours came first from aiurbrush, then being dusted with cocoa. I just didn't like the colour of airbrush alone, and then my airbrush bit the big one!

        The nipples were pink "petal dust"

        The piercings were Lucks' brand silver airbrush paint, but brushed on with a small craft brush.

        The tattoos were food colouring markers, Wilton brand.

        Does that cover it? If not, lemme know if you have any other questions!

        Reply

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Recipe Rating




    This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

    Primary Sidebar

    Marie Porter


    Evil Cake Overlord, All -Around Kitchen Badass!

    More about me →


    Join us on Social Media - Food

    Facebook logo, a white F on a blue background. Instagram icon - a stylized white camera image on blue background. Pinterest Logo - White on red background.

    Join us on Social Media - Costuming, etc

    Facebook logo, a white F on a blue background. Instagram icon - a stylized white camera image on blue background. Twitter logo - a white stylized bird icon on an aqua background.

    More Than Poutine: A Uniquely Canadian Cookbook.
    Learn to sew with spandex

    Most Recent Posts

    • A slice of Reese's Pie, topped with chopped up mini peanut butter cups and Reese's Pieces. It's sitting in front of the rest of the pie.
      Peanut Butter Pie
    • A plate of homemade everything bagels.
      Everything Bagels
    • A plate of garden veggie bagels.
      Veggie Bagels
    • A close up photo of a serving of cottage pie.
      Shepherd's Pie

    We'd love to have you subscribe to our newsletter!


    META

    Site Admin

    Logout

    Entries Feed

    Comments Feed

    Footer

    About

    • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Contact
    • Media

    Newsletter

    • Sign Up

      for emails and updates

    Our Other Blogs

    • Autism Rants
    • Beyond Flour
    • Low Carb Hoser
    • Spandex Simplified

    Note: This site is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for the site to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites. While I’ll only ever link to items that I, personally, wholeheartedly recommend, I do need to put that disclosure out there!

    Copyright © 2020 Foodie Pro on the Foodie Pro Theme