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"Tell him he is not safe while I walk the earth."
-Kratos

My birthday is this week and I wanted to make a cake that I've never seen before. Since I have been addicted to God of War and God of War II for quite some time, I figured that a Blades of Chaos cake would be the best cake ever.

Hey, I'm not a huge fan of fondant or of cake, but I am a huge fan of Kratos. Please e-mail me if you need any advice on baking, desserts, or cooking in general but please note that I do not know much about fondant nor do I know how to find all of those Gorgon eyes.

Please don't send me e-mails with advice, I know my fondant was not perfectly smooth and I know that I didn't even out my buttercream. I don't take baking too seriously; I believe that baking should be as much fun as throwing the Blades of Chaos through a few minotaurs.

Edible Blade of Chaos, Part II

I started out by baking two huge sheet cakes. I have a very simple recipe for sponge cake, so if you're fretting over the recipes in the cookbooks that require 40 eggs, send me and e-mail and I'll give you the recipe.

I used MS-Paint to chop out a picture of the blade of chaos that is on the cover of God of War. I enlarged it, printed it, cut it out with a scissor, and put it on top of two sheet cakes.

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Once the cakes were cut to the right shape, I separated them and spread strawberry jam on one of them. I made my own jam by chopping a bunch of fresh strawberries and throwing them in a pot with a little sugar. I recommend making your own jam since it's pretty easy and you can control the sweetness. For more detail, e-mail me.

Then I put the un-jammed cake on top of the jammed cake and covered the entire thing with buttercream. Buttercream is just two sticks of butter and three cups of confectioner's sugar beat to hell in the mixer. That's why it's so good.

Then it was time to start rolling the fondant. I bought white fondant and colored it, hand kneading it until the color was a nice, smooth, deadly steel color. Roll it out with a little confectioner's sugar and drape it over the cake. Repeat with yellow-orange color for the handle, cut out details with a paring knife, and it's starting to look good.


Gently stick the chain into the cake, light candles, and enjoy. I contemplated adding some spatters of "blood," but since I was bringing the cake to my grandmother's house, I figured I should skip the blood.








Ares: "That night... I was trying to make you a great [cake]."
Kratos: "You succeeded."

The Edible Blade of Chaos

I started by making a batch of "rich roll cookies" which is a simple butter cookie recipe from the Joy of Cooking. I added a little black food coloring (you need a cake store or Sur La Table to get black I think) to make gray cookie dough. I rolled it out and made my own cookie cutter in a link shape by bending a circular cookie cutter using pliers.



I cut some of the cookies into "O" shapes and some into "C" shapes so I could link them together after I baked them, as shown here post-baking. They're brittle, so bake WAY more than you need. And don't assemble them until you've transported the cake to its final destination.



Now that the chain was done, it was time to move on to the cake.