hmmmm. the trouble is the bestest cakes are also kind of plain on the outside visually. Sachertorte just looks like a chocolate cake that's glossy. Princess Cake is cute but it's only a green mound with a rose decoration. Gooey Butter Cake? It's a flat square with a dust of powdered sugar.
My childhood favorite was Sans Rival, which is a layer of I kid you not almost pure golden solid butter layered between burnt-gold meringue and lots of chopped nuts. That only looks good sliced. Dacquoise is its french counterpart. (Medovik from Russia has kind of the same look.) A variation visually are allll the different crepe and stacking cakes, which is like layers if the layers are tiny thin. idk how that'll be in pixels, tho. Ube cakes look neat and purple but tbqh purple yams are only good in ice cream; add white coconut sticky-glossy "macapuno" if you do that, nice palette and tastes better.
Shaved ices would be good though! There are a whole list of them throughout Asia, and before you mix 'em they have the nice visual of the sweet beans and all the fixin's on top. Lots of people do sweet beans in their desserts but again, like 90% of them are on the inside. Japan makes a lot of mochi-based cakes that are just precious but Indonesia's Kuih lapis looks like a jewel and imho would taste better than the girls' day mochi stack. A lot of the steamed cakes are either very ... stylized looking? or they're *in the wrapper*. Although if they were half-out then that would be interesting, like some of the wrappers are bright green banana leaves.
Black Forest Cake is probably the only slam dunk... and Pavlovas, that's a fruit pile for sure. (the more East you go in Europe, into Central Asia, the more berry and stonefruit cakes there are. gorgeous) omg Charlotte Russe sorry forgot you. Boston Creme is also a distinctive look. Icebox Cake is impressive, with the swirling; along with all the trifles, but they just cheating with the clear glass bowl ;)
Red Velvet? Angel Food? again, all on the inside. Baklava looks like a square that's sticky. Divinity's and the meringues are all white. Tres Leches? All on the inside. Boring visually. Ohhh wait, King Cakes, those are simple but colorful. Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, along with the skillet Apple Cakes would look real nice too.
Good silhouettes would of course be the Bundt pan cakes. And the mostly Italian pull-away wedding cakes, and the monkey breads? Those are the stacks of doughy balls in a pyramid. There's a Scandinavian cake made of stacked rings that's impressive...Kransekake. Oh! My favorite holiday one is Buche Noel which is basically a forest log XD Honestly I would much rather see a good braided Challah; there are some awesome looking variations with bread roses.
Now, the youtube crowd popularized a variant which would rock in a game mechanic, the cutaway cakes with candy inside the hollow? Surprise Cakes. They spill M&Ms and stuff once you cut into them?
Gamewise, personally I wanna see more desserts used as steps / ramps. With springy bounce, but that's kind of a big ask with the way games are programmed now. (also I'm a gingerbread house <3er)
Probably the most visually dangerous cake is Baked Alaska! That would look super cool in a game. Flames! The actual most dangerous cakes are the drunken fruitcakes which are basically nut breads soaked in liquor... over time. Popular in the Caribbean too. Oh yeah there are spit cakes - no not like that! Spits like they're roasted on a spit, like an extreme pancake.
This is just cakes, i can also talk your ear off about candy XD
Hope that helps the brainstorm! If you want to search on your own, Brazil totally has a secret stash of cake-making; cakes for nobility is a good search term; and Easter cakes are also (very religiously) visually distinct.
I definitely didn't expect such an in-depth comment! I admire a fellow cake enthusiast, your take will be a great source of reference and inspiration. many thanks!
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This is awesome! I love sweet/food-themed things. And frogs. So cute.
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hmmmm. the trouble is the bestest cakes are also kind of plain on the outside visually. Sachertorte just looks like a chocolate cake that's glossy. Princess Cake is cute but it's only a green mound with a rose decoration. Gooey Butter Cake? It's a flat square with a dust of powdered sugar.
My childhood favorite was Sans Rival, which is a layer of I kid you not almost pure golden solid butter layered between burnt-gold meringue and lots of chopped nuts. That only looks good sliced. Dacquoise is its french counterpart. (Medovik from Russia has kind of the same look.) A variation visually are allll the different crepe and stacking cakes, which is like layers if the layers are tiny thin. idk how that'll be in pixels, tho.
Ube cakes look neat and purple but tbqh purple yams are only good in ice cream; add white coconut sticky-glossy "macapuno" if you do that, nice palette and tastes better.
Shaved ices would be good though! There are a whole list of them throughout Asia, and before you mix 'em they have the nice visual of the sweet beans and all the fixin's on top. Lots of people do sweet beans in their desserts but again, like 90% of them are on the inside. Japan makes a lot of mochi-based cakes that are just precious but Indonesia's Kuih lapis looks like a jewel and imho would taste better than the girls' day mochi stack.
A lot of the steamed cakes are either very ... stylized looking? or they're *in the wrapper*. Although if they were half-out then that would be interesting, like some of the wrappers are bright green banana leaves.
Black Forest Cake is probably the only slam dunk... and Pavlovas, that's a fruit pile for sure. (the more East you go in Europe, into Central Asia, the more berry and stonefruit cakes there are. gorgeous) omg Charlotte Russe sorry forgot you. Boston Creme is also a distinctive look. Icebox Cake is impressive, with the swirling; along with all the trifles, but they just cheating with the clear glass bowl ;)
Red Velvet? Angel Food? again, all on the inside. Baklava looks like a square that's sticky. Divinity's and the meringues are all white. Tres Leches? All on the inside. Boring visually.
Ohhh wait, King Cakes, those are simple but colorful. Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, along with the skillet Apple Cakes would look real nice too.
Good silhouettes would of course be the Bundt pan cakes. And the mostly Italian pull-away wedding cakes, and the monkey breads? Those are the stacks of doughy balls in a pyramid. There's a Scandinavian cake made of stacked rings that's impressive...Kransekake. Oh! My favorite holiday one is Buche Noel which is basically a forest log XD Honestly I would much rather see a good braided Challah; there are some awesome looking variations with bread roses.
Now, the youtube crowd popularized a variant which would rock in a game mechanic, the cutaway cakes with candy inside the hollow? Surprise Cakes. They spill M&Ms and stuff once you cut into them?
Gamewise, personally I wanna see more desserts used as steps / ramps. With springy bounce, but that's kind of a big ask with the way games are programmed now. (also I'm a gingerbread house <3er)
Probably the most visually dangerous cake is Baked Alaska! That would look super cool in a game. Flames! The actual most dangerous cakes are the drunken fruitcakes which are basically nut breads soaked in liquor... over time. Popular in the Caribbean too. Oh yeah there are spit cakes - no not like that! Spits like they're roasted on a spit, like an extreme pancake.
This is just cakes, i can also talk your ear off about candy XD
Hope that helps the brainstorm! If you want to search on your own, Brazil totally has a secret stash of cake-making; cakes for nobility is a good search term; and Easter cakes are also (very religiously) visually distinct.
I definitely didn't expect such an in-depth comment! I admire a fellow cake enthusiast, your take will be a great source of reference and inspiration. many thanks!