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How To Celebrate A Car Crash

How To Celebrate A Car Crash
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According to Miss Manners, what would be the appropriate thing to do when a friend is involved in a car crash on the highway? Fruit basket? Get well cards? We believe that sweets can heal almost any emotional trauma, so when my friend Noah got into a car accident, Billy and I decided to help him get over the pain of losing his beloved car by making him a Car Crash Cake.

The problems we had in designing this cake where numerous, the biggest of which being the lack of an oven. We made do with premade pound cake and some snazzy decorating techniques. If your friend just failed his biology test, try making an Evolution cake to inspire progress. If someone's dog died, you could always consider making them an Skelledog cake. This instructable may be used as a jumping off point for the solving of a wide array of emotional issues.
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
We used a pound cake as our base since we felt it would be more resilient and rebound quicker after its surgery. This is our ingredient list, yours may look different:

1) Cake base
2) Icing (Four different colors)
3) Frosting
4) Mint Patties for wheels
5) Red Vines for the road barrier
6) Nerds for scattered car bits
7) Foil and Cardboard
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21 comments
Jul 29, 2009. 9:56 PMporcupinemamma says:
Hmmmmmmmmmmm I just had bladder surgery....lol
Jul 20, 2009. 6:39 AMGoodhart says:
Very cool idea, I am sorry I missed this when it came out in 2008
Dec 20, 2008. 6:48 AMfwjs28 says:
wow, that's up there next to how to cat on my favs.....
Dec 20, 2008. 7:33 AMfwjs28 says:
its pretty cool......5 stars
Sep 2, 2008. 8:54 AMfiresketch says:
Haha... you've made my day : D
May 22, 2008. 6:45 AMDael says:
haha, thats hilarious.

my friend was in a really serious car accident, and i made her a 'thanks for not dying' cake. she liked it =)
Jun 19, 2008. 12:43 AMOscelot says:
Nice _
May 20, 2008. 8:26 PMGorillazMiko says:
Hahaha, nice! Is that at the new place? Noah got in a car accident? That's terrible! Good thing the cake helped. :P +5/5 stars.
May 26, 2008. 2:14 PMtony stark says:
Hey, GorillazMiko YOU ROCK! Anyway I want to ask you how to do all those cool things with text. Please reply. YOU ROCK!
May 26, 2008. 9:11 PMGorillazMiko says:
...Cool things?
May 28, 2008. 4:31 AMtony stark says:
Like make them bigger and smaller and all that stuff.
May 26, 2008. 3:23 PMalex-sharetskiy says:
Dollar Tree pound cake!
May 20, 2008. 8:35 PMMr. Rig It says:
Wow whatever he hit it sure looks like he messed it up good. Plus his car broke in half and green goo came out. I am guessing that is radiator fluid?
May 20, 2008. 8:55 PMSunbanks says:
I wonder what he did hit....
May 21, 2008. 4:06 AMll.13 says:
I think it was the founding father of the killerjackalopes

=)
May 21, 2008. 2:58 PMSunbanks says:
Hehe =P
May 21, 2008. 7:38 AMbenthekahn says:
what if a candle was added to the hood. Burning car?
May 20, 2008. 10:10 PMdarkmuskrat says:
The cake is clearly not a lie; what your friend may tell the insurance company however is a different story :P
May 20, 2008. 8:58 PMpeguiono says:
nice i like the dead stick man you added, makes the cake :p anyways this is prety sweet :]
May 20, 2008. 6:54 PMLinuxH4x0r says:
Hehe, great job. Too bad you missed the cake contest. Hope I don't get one......

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