What The Wild Things Eat

Whether it’s the skill required to create the perfect disguise, or the surprise of discovering something quite different to what was first expected, I have a definite thing about food that looks like... other food. Because when you think of an ice cream cake, I suspect this isn’t the first thing that comes to mind (although it might be a much more practical choice than the real thing, given Sydney’s current chilly snap*)...

Ice cream cake from Hey Cookie

It’s not just food that pretends to be something else, though. Some penguins will cheerfully dance on tables, dye their hair feathers purple and dream of hooning down narrow cobbled streets on anything from a Vespa to an Aston Martin**. Other penguins find alternative ways to express their wild side...

Where The Wild Things Are penguin from My Dear Darling

I’ve only just discovered the shop and blog of My Dear Darling, who make all sorts of distracting things – best of which are their customised penguins. Oh, how I long for a Sticky Penguin mascot wearing polka dots and brandishing a spatula!

And where are the wild things? The only possible natural habitat for a wild penguin could be the vast and gently swaying expanses of asparagus... in the form of one of Sweetapolita’s ever-more-extraordinary layer cakes...

Asparagus layer cake by Sweetapolita. I’ve shared one of these before, but this is the latest marvel, with eight layers (so there's even more wonderfully fluffy filling in every bite).

* Ooh – a chilli snap! It could be like a brandy snap with extra kick... Now, is that an idea worth pursuing...?
** Those penguins don’t just dress like James Bond, you know...