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That is Teh Awesome.

The Dinosaur means it must have been like hundreds of years ago. ;)

Do you get the lace ready-made or DIY?

....if the latter, that must be a really time-consuming part of it

Lace is really simple these days. You can still do it by hand, but I doubt that anyone does other than for competitions. These days you buy a silicone mat and pour a lace liquid (there are a number of different brands) then scree it off, let it set - either in the air or quickly in the oven at a low heat (which is usually how I end up doing it because I never get my shit together early enough to air dry it, and it takes 8 hours or so to set by itself, which means refrigerating the mix then bringing it up to room temp to use etc. If I do it in the oven it takes about 10 mins and I can just leave the bowl of lace mix on the bench while that happens so I can do the next batch. For larger cakes it's usually necessary to do several lots of lace because the molds are not long enough to go around the whole cake.

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Mmmm...fake cake weaponry.

Created by Kentucky Wildflour Cakes.

Make it so you pull the trigger and it divides into predetermined slices. :lol:

By The Book!

That rifle is a pretty cool cake. Freaking awesome actually.

At the bakery of that gun cake site, They say a 14" dia, 4 layer cake, feeds 60 to 70, and a 14" square cake, feeds 70 to 75. I suppose a wedding or party where each guest is supposed to get a piece by custom, that may be true. But that won't work for cake eaters, or KY stoners. :lol:

Ali, I have been truly amazed by your skills. Do you have an online portfolio? Elizabeth, my oldest daughter, is finishing her second year of culinary arts. I want to show her some more of your creations.

Are we sure that's the same bakery? That one is in extreme northern Ohio, the gun cake was made in Beaver Dam, KY (about 50 miles from yours truly), at least the article said so. I couldn't find a website for the KY entity. Seems like there was a Facebook page. Maybe.

That statement about us those KY stoners and cake reminded me of this:

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Ah, my bad. No wonder they stretch their cakes so far. I Googled it and found Kentucky wildflour but it was a facefuck link, which I try to avoid. Then right below that was a link to the bakery, except I didn't notice no KY. Looking again there's a shitload of wildflour bakeries all over the country. I wonder if it's franchised, or just a bunch of people who think alike?

Health tip...