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Post by kims on Dec 23, 2023 2:14:19 GMT
I'm intrigued by some of the cakes I see in movies. Not the decorating, but 2 layer cakes twice as tall as 2 layer cakes of today like in the film MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. I suppose the pans are available at commercial bake stores, but how do you get the cake baked completely? bake at lower temp for longer than 9" pans of 2" depth? Did people back in the '30s and '40s and earlier bake cakes that big? The strangest things in movies catch my attention and then I spend time trying to figure them out.
Does anyone bake cakes that thick? and how do you bake them?
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 4, 2024 23:42:08 GMT
I'm intrigued by some of the cakes I see in movies. Does anyone bake cakes that thick? and how do you bake them? I don't bake cakes that thick however... This post stuck with me. All through the holidays every movie I watched had a cake in it: The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, The Thin Man Goes Home, No Man of Her Own, Three Days of the Condor and on and on - even today's Sunday Melodrama, The Divorcee - cake. When I popped out to find a photo of the St. Louis cake I discovered whole blogs about cakes in film. A film cake chart even listed one in View to a Kill. What on earth!!! Of course no picture for that cake but apparently all kinds of symbolism surrounding celluloid cakes?? Ordinarily I might scoff but since I do think a lot of care and consideration is given to props, maybe they do have meaning. In terms of baking science... I know you can get angel food and even sponge cake pretty high. The circumference of the St. Louis also looked large to me. I suspect food chicanery is at play - splicing together chunks and layers. Photo from 7 times James Bond totally ruined someone’s wedding blog entry!  |
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Post by kims on Feb 5, 2024 1:18:35 GMT
Blogs about cakes in movies! I don't know-that may be worse than me watching Hallmark Christmas movies. I now wonder, thanks to you Galacticgirrrl is there some reason for all those cakes in film. Because pies aren't decorated and don't catch your eye, cookies too small to see the decoration. Film companies own stakes in Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker. Side note Betty isn't a real person, but Duncan is, like anyone wanted to know. Is the symbolism some sort of conspiracy? Oh, that would be fun-creating cake conspiracies.
Let's see, purple frosting could be a message from some kings, red of course must be a message from some communist country...I do insist that yellow must be a message from the dead-yellow representing the light you are supposed to follow after death. And yes, I'm still on a few drugs after my surgery which should explain this post.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 10, 2024 0:13:48 GMT
Blogs about cakes in movies! I don't know-that may be worse than me watching Hallmark Christmas movies. ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my. Too funny. Which reminds me, just between you and me.... There was one actress that kept popping up on my tv screen from Hallmark movies - as I channel surfed by and NEVER stopped for longer than a moment or two - of course - and she never seem(s)(ed) to age. I of course HAD to google this to see if she perhaps filmed 30 movies per year or had a secret Dorian Gray painting in her closet. I do quite like Lacey Chabert for some reason..... Erica Kane's daughter? Oh my. And did adverts for Secret Beauties dolls. Uh oh - some of them seem to have cakes on their heads! Must go check the blog chart for in-depth analysis! ![]()  ![]() ![]() |
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