If you haven’t bought a T-shirt from Threadless yet, what are you waiting for? Threadless is a website that allows people to submit ideas for T-shirts and then invites other people to vote on them. Those shirt designs that receive the most votes get printed. The designs can be really intricate and cool, or as simple as a milk carton and a chocolate chip cookie professing their love for one another (I have owned that shirt at one point in my life).
In 2007, a guy named Chris Cardinal decided it would be fun to run a contest that asked people to recreate their favorite Threadless design in cake. And thus, Threadcakes was born.
I haven’t paid much attention to this website in the past, but after seeing a cake today that Boing Boing (you should be reading this blog as well) posted today, I think I’m going to be all over this website.
This is the original design, called “Bitter Teeth::
And this is the cake that Chloe Bird created, using a scientific skull model, food-grade silicon, dental tools and milk chocolate:
It never fails to amaze me what people can create. This is amazing.
You can read about how Chloe made this cake here.