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Carol Peletier Inspires You To Never Give Up!

Yesterday, I featured a gorgeous Walking Dead edible sculpture featuring Lori Grimes in her wedding dress.  Today, I’m featuring Carolina Lara’s 2nd sculpture which goes with the first one.  This amazing edible sculpture is called “Carol Peletier: You Change”.

Carolina Lara made this as part of The Baking Dead, a collaboration consisting of 50 plus cake and sugar artists celebrating the hit AMC series The Walking Dead.  This collaboration is also helping to spread the word about Domestic Violence Prevention and Awareness.  You can find The Baking Dead on the web, Facebook, and Twitter.

These sugar artists come from all over the globe. Carolina Lara is from Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.  Each artist chose a character or scene from the show to recreate in sugar or cake form. They were asked to incorporate the emotion and relationships that are conveyed in the show and use butter, sugar, candy and cake to make you “feel” through their piece, in much the same way that the show conveys such strong emotions.

Since the beginning of the show, the issue of domestic violence has reared it’s ugly head and continues to be an issue faced throughout the series. The Baking Dead decided to dedicate this collaboration to all the survivors of domestic violence and to link with as many domestic violence prevention and awareness organizations as possible, including the National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence. Many in the group have been touched by or are survivors of domestic violence in one form or another and felt that this would be a great opportunity to get the word out.

Carol Peletier is a perfect character for The Baking Dead to spotlight because she is a survivor of domestic violence.  The comic and television versions of Carol are very different people and because of that, they have very different fates in the Walking Dead.  But, one thing that both version have in common is that they are a survivor of domestic violence.  According to Wikipedia, the abuse Carol faced by her husband was explicitly shown in the TV show whereas it was merely hinted at in the comic.

 

The Walking Dead is about how people respond under unbelievable pressure.  Carol is one of the main characters in the Walking Dead TV show.  As the series has progressed, she has discovered her inner strength.

That’s why Carolina Lara included the quote:

 

You fight it.

You don’t give up.

and one day

you just

CHANGE    

 

The quotes comes from the episode Indifference.  It is one of the last things Carol says to Lizzie.

Carol is portrayed differently in the comic and TV show.  From Wikipedia: “In the comic series, Carol exhibits a neurotic, self-centered, and naive demeanor. Throughout her time in the comics, she grows increasingly unstable, to the extent of self-destruction. The television show differs in these regards, as she is shown to be a stern, pragmatic, and compassionate individual who has been gradually building inner strength.”  Wikipedia has a wonderful quote by Executive Produce Scott Gimple about this. "[Carol] was strong all along. The apocalypse didn't make her strong. The apocalypse made her show herself that she's strong".

 

The likeness of Melissa McBride, the actress who plays Carol Peletier on TV, is wonderful.

I really like how this contrasts with Carolina Lara’s companion piece featuring Lori Grimes.  They have different color schemes.  Lori’s statue is primarily white.  This statue is primarily black and red.  Lara’s first piece featured the ghost of Lori Grimes at her own grave.  This piece features Carol at a grave.  But in this case, Carol is alive and the grave isn’t hers.  I’m guessing this is the grave of her daughter Sophia, since the doll that Sophia played with is laying nearby.  The two skulls, the flowers, and Carol’s quote could also mean that this is Mika and Lizzie's graves.

Here are more pictures of this amazing edible sculpture:

 

 

Remember: This amazing Walking Dead edible sculpture is just one of 50+ items created for The Baking Dead.  To see the rest, visit The Baking Dead.  You can find them on the web, Facebook, and Twitter.

Lori Grimes Standing At Her Grave

Welcome back to more of The Baking Dead. The Baking Dead is a collaboration consisting of over 50 cake and sugar artists celebrating the hit AMC series The Walking Dead and helping to spread the word about Domestic Violence Prevention and Awareness.  You can find The Baking Dead on the web, Facebook, and Twitter.

These sugar artists come from all over the globe. Each artist chose a character or scene from the show to recreate in sugar or cake form. They were asked to incorporate the emotion and relationships that are conveyed in the show and use butter, sugar, candy and cake to make you “feel” through their piece, in much the same way that the show conveys such strong emotions.

Since the beginning of the show, the issue of domestic violence has reared it’s ugly head and continues to be an issue faced throughout the series. The Baking Dead decided to dedicate this collaboration to all the survivors of domestic violence and to link with as many domestic violence prevention and awareness organizations as possible, including the National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence.  One really cool thing that has come out of this is that The National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence has been promoting The Baking Dead on Facebook and Twitter and contacted Renay Presley Zamora who heads up The Baking Dead.  Many in The Baking Dead group have been touched by or are survivors of domestic violence in one form or another and felt that this would be a great opportunity to get the word out.

The Baking Dead contribution that I’m featuring this time is called Lori Standing at her Grave.  It was made by Carolina Lara.  This is one of my favorite pieces made for The Baking Dead.  This is one of two companion pieces made by Carolina Lara. Check back tomorrow and you’ll find the other half of this set.

When you mention the Walking Dead, I think of a band of humans fighting against an endless tide of zombies.  The visions in my head are of desperate people, zombies, and violence.  That’s why I really like the piece, because you don’t associate the Walking Dead with things that are beautiful and elegant.

Here are four close-ups of this amazing piece.  It is hard to believe that this is made out of edible materials like sugar.

 

The likeness to Sarah Wayne Callies, the actress who played Lori Grimes, is wonderful.

 

The dress that Lori is wearing is her wedding dress.  Rick sees a vision of Lori in her wedding dress at her grave site in at least two episodes - The Suicide King and Home.

 

Here is a photograph of Lori in her wedding dress from the TV show. 

 

The sign behind Lori reads “It's so easy to do the wrong thing in this world. So if it feels wrong, don't do it, if it feels easy don't do it, don't let the world spoil you. GOODNIGHT, LOVE.” These were the last words Lori said to her son Carl.

 

 

Carolina Lara also made another amazing sculpture which goes with this one.  I’ll showcase it tomorrow.

Remember: this amazing Walking Dead edible sculpture is just one of 50+ items created for The Baking Dead!  To see the rest, visit The Baking Dead.  You can find them on the web,Facebook, and Twitter.

Help! Zombies Are Escaping From The Walking Dead Comic!

This amazing Walking Dead edible sculpture was made by Anne Heap from Pink Cake Box.

For the next few days, I am going to be spotlighting a cool new cake collaboration called The Baking Dead!  You can find The Baking Dead on the web, Facebook, and Twitter.

The Baking Dead is a collaboration consisting of 50+ cake & sugar artists celebrating the hit AMC series The Walking Dead and helping to spread the word about Domestic Violence Prevention and Awareness.

These sugar artists come from all over the globe. Each artist chose a character or scene from the show to recreate in sugar or cake form. They were asked to incorporate the emotion and relationships that are conveyed in the show and use butter, sugar, candy and cake to make you “feel” through their piece, in much the same way that the show conveys such strong emotions.

Since the beginning of the show, the issue of domestic violence has reared it’s ugly head and continues to be an issue faced throughout the series. We decided to dedicate this collaboration to all the survivors of domestic violence and to link with as many domestic violence prevention and awareness organizations as possible, including the National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence. Many in the group have been touched by or are survivors of domestic violence in one form or another and felt that this would be a great opportunity to get the word out.

 

This Walking Dead edible sculpture features a Walking Dead comic book with zombie hands reaching out from inside it.  This makes it look like the zombies are escaping from within the comic.  The stand which is holding the comic book off the ground is designed to look like blood.  The cake stand is covered with artwork from the Walking Dead.

 

Here is the cover of the Walking Dead comic.

 

Here is the inside of the Walking Dead comic.  Since the Walking Dead is a black and white comic, the artwork here is also black and white.  This picture has a great view of the three zombie hands.  You can see where they have touched the comic because they left blood finger prints.

This amazing Walking Dead edible sculpture is just one of 50+ items created for The Baking Dead.  To see the rest, visit The Baking Dead.  You can find them on the web, Facebook, and Twitter.

Fabulous Sound of Music Cake

This Fabulous Sound of Music Cake was made by Sweet Delights Cakery.  This cake was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music movie. It’s design features the baker’s favorite songs from the movie. 

 

On the top of the cake is an edible figure of Maria, from the scene in the movie where she is playing a guitar and singing the  Do-Re-Me song with the Von Trapp children. She is dressed in a brown jumper with a white long sleeve blouse. Just below Maria are gold guilded Edelweiss. Maria was sculpted using modeling chocolate. 

 

Below Maria is a wonderful hand-painted scene of the Austrian Alps and Alpine meadows. The hand painted scene is bordered with a gold guilded ornate frame that contains Edelweiss.

 

The next layer is a silhouette of Maria and Captain Von Trapp inside the gazebo singing Something Good. The Damask curtains that surround the silhouette were used to make clothes for the seven Von Trapp children.

 

The bottom layer is light blue with a guilded gold Edelweiss trim with a gold number 50 in the middle. The background for the 50 is white with a diamond pattern. The Edelweiss on the cake represents the song Edelweiss.  The cake board is black with a guided gold side and ornate gold decorations. The ornate gold on the cake represents the ornate furnishings of the Von Trapp house.