The Cake Boss Takes on Our Wicked Plants
On Monday, October 26, our very own Amy Stewart appeared on TLC’s popular new reality show, Cake Boss. Back in July, the Cake Boss team was so inspired by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden “Wicked Plants” exhibit–based on Stewart’s hit book, Wicked Plants–they whipped up a sinister Venus Flytrap cake that was unveiled at BBG.
Can you believe this thing? It’s like a fondant-covered tribute to Little Shop of Horrors!
The entire cake, with the exception of the neck made from PVC piping, was edible. The head was a giant Rice Krispies treat wrapped in green modeling chocolate! The planter was made of vanilla and chocolate cake with mocha filling. Yum! And an added bonus: all of the crafted garden flowers (poisonous and otherwise malicious, as Wicked Plants will tell you) were 100 percent safe for munching!
The full episode, “Plants, Pranks, and a Proposal,” is available at TLC’s website, and you should definitely check it out. The process–from planning to execution–is amazing! You can see a snapshot of the evolution below. I don’t know about you, but this has me hungry for cake. FEED ME!
-christina
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This is completely awesome, though I’m not sure a green rice krispies treat covered in , what was it, modeling chocolate? I’m not entirely sure I’d eat that. Sometimes I wonder if the cake decorators forget the point of a cake, which is that it tastes totally amazing!!
It’s absolutely gorgeous though and nice to see Wicked Plants getting such great play!
Amy: What an honor and what a hooooot! I guess it’s been a while since it was eaten, so there’s no chance any of your delectable poisonous plants were on the ingredient list. Good thing as most authors don’t carry that kind of liability insurance. Congrats!
That is fantastic!
Love Wicked Plants
Love Cake
A cake based on a book? So cool!
Audrey II is my favorite wicked plant… <3 <3 Cake Boss is clearly talented, wish he was part of my family . I'd like wicked plants… Meow
This show was amazing! Buddy really put thought in to it and can with a bang. This plant idea was totally great and I can’t believe how great it turned out. My favorite part of the cake had to be the plants at the bottom. Having got to see the show in HD that I get with DISH is great. Working with DISH I try to make sure that all my TV experiences are as great as I watch this show.