When It's Socially Acceptable to Eat Books

My endeavors this week were quite different from those of the past weeks.  My silence the past fortnight has been due to preparation for the project I presented with fellow classmate David.  Our assignment was to create an edible book.  We were required to full express what the book was about while still making it delectable.  So, we went the most seemingly-basic route, by tackling a cake, but we made it more complicated by adding the element of interactivity. The book, or series, rather, that we selected was Game of Thrones.  The twist we put in was making it an actual game, which isn't technically an aspect of the actual storyline.  

We used bright colors for the cake to exhibit the Candyland-esque influence we wanted the game to add.  Furthermore, the cake itself was marbled to implement the complexity of the obstacles the characters in the series face.  The "board" included a manifestation of the Iron Throne created from graham crackers and icing.  And the way of playing further involved the difficulties faced by participants in the plot of the books.  It is highly complicated to gain access to the Iron Throne, which was able to be reached only by getting through the path set out on the cake, which featured a series of spaces that could allow to you move forward or would force you backwards. Furthermore, to move about the board, the edible sugar cube dice had to be used, but these were hand-made, and extremely rigged.  

The amount of work we put into the cake and the rules behind the game it contained were well worth the effort, as ultimately our pairing took home the "Best in Show" prize at our Edible Book Banquet. I truly enjoyed this project, and all that it involved!