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Pape
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Serbia419 Posts
June 14 2009 01:58 GMT
#1
Hello guys, my real name is Marko and this is the short story of my journey about baking a cake for the Cake Bake contest in the Starcraft 2 forum.

I chose to write about this because for the last few days since I finished my cake I have been going anxiously crazy about this contest. All this is for a good reason in part due to the awsome competition I already have in that thread and another for another reason is that knowing that there is at least another incredible cake or two in the works as I write.

At first I never even in my right mind would have considered to enter the competition. For one being a young male and a college student, all I knew how to cook was quick food for supplementing my bodybuilding hobby on a george foreman grill, hitting a ready cooked uncle bens rice, and ohh a protein shake and a protein bar. I'm lying I can also make scrambled eggs for breakfast probably not much difference than another guy my age on team liquid.

Second, I had no idea!

And Third, there was no way that I could beat the awsome cakes already made up to that point.

So my idea hit me early on this week about Monday morning as I best remember looking through the fan artwork on the starcraft 2 website. That day I immediately went to a local grocery store here in Iowa, USA and hit the kitchen full of excitement and ready to learn to make some new things in the kitchen from you tube videos and recipes on the internet I had found earlier that day. I stuck to my idea and experimented with the recepies and learned how to make my basic tools through the night.

The next day I got up again full of excitement and new enthusiam to hit the kitchen, something I never felt for cooking before. That morning I had been waiting for my new phone to ship in from verizon so I could begin my cake and track my progress on its hyped 3.2mp camera because my old phone camera was not gonna win me a beta key. I officialy began the shaping of my cake around noon that day and worked till my eyes hurt. By the end of the day, my masterpiece delicious crepe cake was done and molded in a creepie purple marzipan. The next following day I woke early and worked on the little buddy baneling that would sit on top. I made my exploding jello in the morning in 5 different cups which would be my master idea and give the people a WOW factor and make the ling life like, at least surely as close as you can get to a baneling with kitchen ingredients right? I worked through the day and finished my cake about 8 pm that night and had it posted on the website shortly there after.

At first the reactions from the people were amazing and I was feeling on top of the world. Out in the bars that night showing all my drunk buddies and some drunk slutty ladies my hand in the kitchen. I didn't win any contest with them that night if you're wondering haha.

The next day though I woke up and realized how many days were left in this contest. Surely I was thinking I was a winner in my mind but there was still half a dozen cakes out there that could compete with me up to that point and only three winners to be given out. So in the last days since other cakes have come in all capable of a taking a key. I've realized that I could very well not get any reward for my cake and my dreams of testing SC2 could be in the hands of some world of warcraft newbie. Not only me but the same for my other entries in the contest.

In the end, it will be tragic once the winners are posted. I don't think I will feel incredibly good if I win a key when I know how hard everybody has worked. I did say in the thread after posting my cake that I would give my other key to another cake that didn't win if I win and I will stick to that. I do hope though, that the entire community here at TL can recognize all the great cakes in that thread and hopefully show Blizzard why team liquid is such a great support community for the sport and game of our starcraft and deserving of more keys.

I'll leave you with a link to the contest and some images of my process.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=94469

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Album of the progress pics that follow the blog.

Thanks for reading.

Pape

*****
good luck have fun!
Pioneer
Profile Joined December 2008
994 Posts
June 14 2009 02:05 GMT
#2
That looks so awesome! Is that jello?

Anyway looks awesome, really nice job on the creep too :p.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
June 14 2009 02:08 GMT
#3
Yeah, the cake competition is seriously fierce. Nice work and good luck ^^
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
June 14 2009 02:15 GMT
#4
Dude that's awesome. There are some amazingly good cakes made if you check out that cake thread man they all pretty much deserve to win.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
June 14 2009 02:23 GMT
#5
That's awesome! Looks so delicious too. I really wish I was in a position to make something too but I can't really.

GL with the contest!
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
June 14 2009 02:26 GMT
#6
Thats a badass cake and you should feel good about your creation regardless if you win or not
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
Pape
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Serbia419 Posts
June 14 2009 02:26 GMT
#7
Thanks for the feedback guys.

And this is just one story out of a book from all those other cakes that I know probably have as much heart in them as mine. There are I think over 20 cakes so far so take a peek if you already haven't.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=94469

And if you work for Blizzard, have some heart :D
good luck have fun!
boesthius
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States11637 Posts
June 14 2009 02:33 GMT
#8
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ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
June 14 2009 02:55 GMT
#9
Oh wow that is an amazing cake, seriously thats sooo good.
U Gotta Skate.
Pape
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Serbia419 Posts
June 14 2009 14:25 GMT
#10
Thanks again for reading guys. Today is the last day of the contest and there should be some great last minute cakes posted so I highly encourage you to check it out. Especially the pasta marine just posted LOL!
good luck have fun!
R3condite
Profile Joined August 2008
Korea (South)1541 Posts
June 14 2009 15:00 GMT
#11
oh man.. wat is the green thing? jelly?!
ggyo...
Pape
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Serbia419 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-14 15:29:59
June 14 2009 15:29 GMT
#12
its gelatin or better known as Jello
its kind of a cheap popular dessert in the USA

Here is another picture of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzen/272060102/
good luck have fun!
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