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How To Enter the Cake Contest

How To Enter the Cake Contest
Cakes make people happy. We like cake.

We want you to be happy too, so we're holding a Cake Contest!


Show us the coolest cakes you can make.

Cakes are about both tastiness and beauty, so you can choose to focus on tasty recipes or decoration. Describe how to make your favorite deliciously gooey chocolate cake, or demonstrate how to turn a sheet cake into a fully decked-out pirate ship. It's up to you.

If you made an awesome cake a while ago and don't have in-progress photos, draw some diagrams or use SketchUp to explain the construction process.

The only requirement: it must be about a full-sized cake.
- Pie is not cake.
- Cupcakes are not full-sized cakes.

Got it? Now get baking!

Inspiration:
Laser Cut Cake
Erupting Volcano Cake
3D Dinosaur Cake
rupamagic's Perfect Cheesecake

Prizes

Voting Prize (1): The Cake Bible plus an Instructables Robot t-shirt.

Pageviews Prize (1): The Cake Bible plus an Instructables Robot t-shirt.

Random Prize (1): The Cake Bible plus an Instructables Robot t-shirt.

Voting Runner Up (4): Instructables Robot t-shirt.

Open to enter: April 9, 2008 12:01 AM PST
Deadline for entries: April 27, 2008 11:59 PM PST

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Step 1Official Rules

1. All federal, state, and local taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. No purchases are necessary; void where prohibited by law.

2. Participants agree to abide by all decisions of Instructables, contest co-sponsors, and judges, which shall be final and binding with respect to all issues relating to this contest.

3. Prize is not transferable and no cash alternative or prize substitution is available. Instructables and contest co-sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value if the prize listed is unavailable for any reason. All potential winners are subject to verification at the discretion of Instructables and contest co-sponsors.

4. Winner agrees that prizes are being provided "as is", and Instructables and contest co-sponsors make no warranty, representation or guarantee regarding the prize, including but not limited to its quality, condition, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

5. Instructables and contest co-sponsors are not responsible for problems including (but not limited to) damaged, incorrect, inaccurate, lost, delayed, or defective entries, or for injury or damage to any computer resulting from participation in this contest. Entries that have been tampered with or altered are void.

6. Instructables reserves the right to modify, cancel, postpone or end the contest at any time as necessary, at its sole discretion, or to disqualify any participant or winner, at its sole discretion, deemed to have cheated, destroyed, obstructed, or otherwise acted illegally or in bad faith in relation to this contest.

7. Instructables reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of the Terms of Service; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

8. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you represent and warrant that: you are over the age of 18, or entering with the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian (subject to verification), and that the entry does not contain or incorporate the intellectual property and/or confidential information of any third party.

9. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you hereby grant Instructables a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty free right to publish and distribute your entry for their promotional purposes.

10. Governing Law: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the official rules, or the rights of entrants, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with, the substance laws of the State of California and any applicable laws and regulations of the United States.
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Apr 30, 2008. 1:44 PMchelseapow says:
I really wish I would've seen this a few days ago. I made an amazing looking octopus cake for a friends birthday. It definately would've been a contender.
Apr 27, 2008. 3:03 PMArtisticSugarworks says:
May be a stupid question, but, it says there are 41 entries, but, when you click to view them all, you only get to see 38 of them. What happened to the other 3?
Apr 25, 2008. 12:20 PMdave spencer says:
I put up 3 instructables into the cake contest but I can only find the first one I posted. The second one was posted more than 2 days ago. the third one was just posted. Am I limited to just one entry for the contest?
Apr 25, 2008. 9:06 PMfungus amungus says:
I only see the tank and helicopter ones. What's the third? And no, there's no limit.
Apr 25, 2008. 9:19 PMdave spencer says:
Thanks, I see the tank one now. The other one was unpublished because it was too short. It was more of a technique tip than a cake instructable.
Apr 23, 2008. 7:41 AMDainiusGB says:
what happens if that portal/rickroll cake comes in first place in both categories? Will it be between my instructable : http://www.instructables.com/id/the-Way-too-chocolatey-for-human-consumption-cak/
and http://www.instructables.com/id/The-BEST-Cake-Known-to-Man-Gooey-Chocolate-Cake/ if the contest ended right now who would win?
Apr 23, 2008. 9:05 AMfungus amungus says:
The category where it is most clearly the winner is the one it takes. So if it's a close race for votes, but it's way ahead in pageviews, then it wins for pageviews.
Apr 20, 2008. 2:21 PMathomemom says:
Are Instructables contests open to foreign residents? I live in Guatemala.
Apr 23, 2008. 9:04 AMfungus amungus says:
Yes
Apr 16, 2008. 1:11 PMLabot2001 says:
If I were to bake a cake, cut it into smaller portions, and then decorate each single portion individually, would I qualify?
Apr 17, 2008. 2:47 PMfungus amungus says:
That sounds bizarre. I am intrigued and it would still fall into the cake category.
Apr 9, 2008. 5:24 PMBulletbill says:
The cake is a lie I might try making a vanilla crazy cake, complete with garnishes such as fish shaped solid waste, sediment-shaped sediment, and a companion cube (If you haven't played Portal you'll have no idea what I'm talking about)
Apr 9, 2008. 9:23 PMfungus amungus says:
To be a valid entry, the cake must not be a lie. Just sayin'.
Apr 10, 2008. 5:53 AMarbitrarylogic says:
Darn, does that mean I'm disqualified from submitting this? The Cake from Portal

:P
Apr 17, 2008. 2:47 PMfungus amungus says:
Sorry for the late response. Entries must be from within the time period to be eligible since contests are to encourage new Instructables.
Apr 10, 2008. 2:36 PMmeming says:
dude you got up early.........I wish I was a early bird
Apr 17, 2008. 6:14 AMDainiusGB says:
well he didnt necessarily get up early, maybe he's in a different timezone.
Apr 16, 2008. 10:56 PMcorinna.anni.roc says:
Whoah! Cake contest. Now which one should I enter?
I've made 4 from scratch in my life so far...

Baked Goodness Cakes

Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Raspberry Pound Cake with Ginger Frosting
Key Lime Cake with Lime Frosting and Lime Whipped Cream inside

or the motherload...Bourbon Cake
X-9
Apr 17, 2008. 12:13 AMfungus amungus says:
Those all sound pretty damn good. I'll be making one myself soon.
Apr 16, 2008. 8:29 AMsinistir7 says:
how do you see how many votes someone has on their instructable?
Apr 16, 2008. 12:04 PMfungus amungus says:
They're hidden for now.
Apr 10, 2008. 9:08 PMmega_swordman says:
The first thing I though when looking at the title was, "dear god, how many Portal references are there going to be?" Unfortunately, my assumptions were correct. *sigh*
Apr 10, 2008. 9:02 PMYerboogieman says:
darn i was gonna ask if i could make my apple pie
Apr 10, 2008. 7:17 PMWolf Seril says:
the cake is a lie the cake is a lie the cake is a lie the cake is a lie the cake is a lie THE CAKE IS A LIE THE CAKE IS A LIE THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!
Apr 9, 2008. 6:24 PMacaz93 says:
Hot cakes Aren't This Kind of cakes ,right?
Apr 9, 2008. 9:22 PMfungus amungus says:
That's right.
Apr 10, 2008. 3:50 PMacaz93 says:
sure, sure ,? not even chocochip pancakes?
Apr 10, 2008. 4:23 PMfungus amungus says:
They are yummy, but they are not true cakes.
Apr 10, 2008. 2:30 PMmeming says:
every one alredy knows how to enter the cake contest or any contest (after you make your instructable you click what contest you whant to have it in) all im tring to say is you dont have to make an instructale after every contest....thats all
Apr 10, 2008. 1:02 PMoakspoor says:
- Cheesecake is cake. this is incorrect Cheesecake is heaven!
Apr 10, 2008. 5:11 AMslu6alka says:
Hey...I'm from Europe can I take part in the contest?
Apr 9, 2008. 7:43 PMstruckbyanarrow says:
also can a paper airplane be a cake i like flaming paper airplanes!
Apr 10, 2008. 2:50 AMFirebert010 says:
No, a paper airplane is not a cake.
Apr 9, 2008. 5:01 PMrandofo says:
I like cake. You should all mail your cake to me.
Apr 9, 2008. 9:21 PMfungus amungus says:
If I do make that cake I was talking about, I will let you eat some.
Apr 9, 2008. 8:32 PMGorillazMiko says:
No thanks buddy.
Apr 9, 2008. 9:10 PMCameronSS says:
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I'm not much of a cake artist, but this looks like a fun one to watch! My birthday's in a week and a half-someone publish something good by then.
Apr 9, 2008. 4:39 PMLinuxH4x0r says:
Can I enter one I did in december? Thanks!
Apr 9, 2008. 5:30 PMGjdj3 says:
If you update it you can do it. And you're referring to the awesome robot cake, right?
Apr 9, 2008. 5:33 PMLinuxH4x0r says:
yep! I'll update tonight (I never put in a recipie)
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