Dessert Trend: Veggie Cakes

Remember this incredibly life-like asparagus cake? Yesterday, I came across these cakes that are made to look like vegetable gardens. I don't remember seeing a lot of veggie sweets as a kid, so I wonder if this is a newer trend as people strive to get more and more creative with their confections.

No garden is complete with a gnome or two.

I love that the first cake even has the picket fence around the garden. That's a great touch that really completes the theme. I think the gnomes would be great party favors for the green thumbs in your life. I'm going to attempt my own veggie garden this year, and I'd love to have a veggie cake awaiting me when I finally get the garden up and running. Perhaps I'll whip one up.

Eat Your Veggies!

I've seen veggies reinterpreted as dessert before, but nothing has ever made asparagus look so delicious. When I stumbled upon Rosie's asparagus cake on Sweetapolita, my mouth hit the floor. Just look at the level of detail in each and every stalk. This is by far one of the most realistic cakes I've ever seen.

It would have been hard to cut into this masterpiece, but Rosie's sister and daughter were happy to take a bite or two (or twenty).

Have you ever seen anything so lifelike and amazing? That slice of cake with the intact asparagus spear tops is just too much to handle. Mmmm!

images: Sweetapolita