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My grandmother has been using a bunny cake pan for years; I think this'd make a great Christmas present for her!

I'd love to use it as a tofu- or bean-loaf mold, then serve it as a vegan offering at a T-day dinner.

My inner snark wonders how many vegans would be offended, though.

I'm not a vegan, I'm just a vegetarian--but I wouldn't be offended.

Careful with that snark; they breed, you know, and they're harder to get rid of than bedbugs.

now i'm dying to know what the previous editions were.

I have a $25 gift card for W&S that my boyfriend and I got for our housewarming last year.

25 bucks doesn't get you much, but I might just have to use it for this, as I am hosting Thanksgiving for the first time this year!

As a vegan, I would find it amusing. As long as it's delicious!

Kuroneko, you're absolutely right, but baby snarklettes are adorable.

So vegetarians eat cake instead of meat? Sign me up.

Has anyone used a cake pan like this before (not a turkey, but something else that's tall and has two basically vertical components)? I'm wondering how hard it is to keep the two turkey halves from falling to the side. Maybe some small dowels would help?

You're supposed to be able to just put icing between the two halves but in a non-molded situation where I constructed a bunny from cake rounds toothpicks were required. Maybe if you have really substantial frosting it would work out----being Williams-Sonoma there is probably a special recipe in the packaging.

I have almost all of the Williams-Sonoma molded cake pans, and they all come with a recipe for the cake and the frosting. The cake halves will stick together if you use a thick slather of frosting and let it harden up. However, it tends to take away from the attractiveness of the cake because it doesn't look seamless. I prefer to use a thinner layer of icing (so it doesn't show much, if at all, between the halves) and a few toothpicks to hold things in place.

Also, for whatever it's worth, I always try the recipe included with the pan first, and I have yet to try one that I didn't enjoy (and I can be picky).