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An Obama Your Kids Can't Resist: Make the President-Elect in Cupcakes

Posted by JeanneSager

If your kids are anything like mine, they fall prey to bribery pretty easily. Bribery in the form of frosted goodness anyway. So if your little one isn't already spouting "President Barack Obama" when you show off pictures of the new commander in chief, how about a convincing them with cupcakes?

Upstate New York cake artist Zilly Rosen put forty hours and plenty of fondant into the recreation of Obama in more than one thousand two hundred cupcakes. Using a photoshopped picture of the president-elect, Rosen mapped out a grid for placing cupcakes iced in nine different shades of fondant. She told Cupcakes Take the Cake the original plan was a bake sale, but she Obama-cakes qualified for campaigning within one hundred feet of a polling place, so Rosen swung by the headquarters of the Obama campaign in Buffalo, NY and dropped her five-foot by six-foot sweet homage to a president-elect off for the hard working volunteers to enjoy. 

Think you'll only get a taste via pictures? Think again: a grid is easy enough to make, thanks to this Photoshop tutorial, and this link to the Shepard Fairey Obama Vote poster that Rosen used. 

Images: Zillycakes (via Neatorama)

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Comments

 

laurie said:

awesome!  :)

November 21, 2008 9:43 AM

About JeanneSager

Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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