What? Wait! This is The Kitchn, right? Not Apartment Therapy? Isn't that where the furniture belongs? Not when it's made out of cake it's not!
Yes, a sofa made out of cake!
• See more: Let Them Eat Art at Artinfo
In my own personal kitchen, my dessert decorating hasn't been too extreme lately. I don't have children, so I don't have much need to bake big crazy cakes. But suddenly the idea of making modern furniture out of pastry is oddly appealing. The idea of having a dinner party where all your furniture is edible seems plausible, for the first time. OK, OK, not really, but if I had a million dollars to hire someone else to do it, a large warehouse space to show it all off in, and a plethora of friends to show it off to — I'd totally do it. You'd all be invited; don't worry.
Have you ever made a giant couch out of cake? Or something more modest yet still ambitious? What's the craziest baked good you've ever made in your own kitchen? For me, recently, it was an octopus cake. Do you enjoy making such things or would you rather hire someone to do such fancy pastry work? Share your thoughts below!
Related: Crafty Kitchen! Online Sources for Candy and Cake-Decorating Supplies
(Image: Andrew Russeth/Artinfo)
How to Cook Rice on the Stove
How to Make Fresh Pasta Dough in the Food Processor
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Floral Drink Dispen...
Small Cool Lessons: Discovering Small Space Design Ideas That Really Work
Beatriz's Fun & Functional Workspace
Can't think; I just want to lie down on it and not think!
My friend's 22nd birthday was Pokemon-themed. Naturally, I made two 9" round Pokeball cakes. That's about as fancy as I get with my decorating skills.
I have just made a 3 layer cake with swiss meringue frosting like this one http://sweetapolita.com/2011/04/inside-out-neapolitan-layer-cake/.It was so good but not as pretty. I think all that crazy stuff they make out of food is cool to look at but I rather challenge myself with techniques and flavors.
I made cakes that looked exactly like baked potatoes. With "sour cream" (whipped cream), "chives" (green sprinkles), "bacon" (sugar cookies strips painted to look like bacon), "cheddar cheese" (orange marzipan on a box grater, and a pat of "butter" (yellow marzipan). People thought they were real baked potatoes.
I think it might be fun for the wedding of someone who's a funiture designer/owns a funiture shop or something like that. But normally I don't really care for the looks that much- the taste is what really matters.
That is amazing! My girlfriend made this quilt cake to honor her mom on her birthday and it is one of the most amazing cakes I have seen. http://flourarrangements.org/2011/08/dream-cake/
My favorite was for fun at work one day I made a batch of neon purple cupcakes with lime green frosting and when you bit into them, they had a berry preserve filling that I added way more black food coloring to than I'm willing to admit. The result was everyone who took a cupcake had blackish green teeth, tongues and mouths all day! People were running around showing off their mouths. It was hilarious.
For my husband's birthday I made a Portal (the video game) cake: First, a false layer cake made from a cardboard shell frosted with real chocolate frosting and decorative icing and candles. But! ('The cake is a lie!') Inside was the real cake - a spherical cake with a spotlight embedded in it, decorated with fondant to look like a robotic character named Wheatley.
Unfortunately, this set the bar pretty high for my son's birthday cakes. He now assumes they can all be 'functional' and do crazy things! Yikes.
I made a life sized scuba fin cake for my husband's birthday. It was my first time working with fondant and I had a blast making it.
My favorite thing was The Island cake I made for the Lost finale - I made a bunch of cupcakes and piled them together around a plastic palm tree and a "crashed" Matchbox airplane...so much icing!
A couple months ago I made a big tree stump wedding cake. It was really cute.
In the Spring, I took a class in cake baking and decorating. For my final, I made a tiered cake based on the anime series Hell Girl. And I made everything, including cake, frosting, modeling chocolate covering (nope, not fondant) and 3 figures, hand painted gum paste flowers and logo, rice paper "lanterns" and molded chocolate torii gate cake topper. While I have a background in the arts, I had never done any of the decorating stuff before.
[Picture]
A friend was throwing a Mad Hatter's Tea Party themed birthday. I made her cake. It consisted of the iconic Mad Hatter's hat, a few tiny teapots, and a teacup--all made of cake.