The Weeabakery

Anime/manga & vidya characters recreated with fondant icing on delicious cookies!

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Oh hey, it’s Akko from Little Witch... Macadamia?  I enjoy that pun so much that I couldn’t help but make macadamia nut cookies so I could crack it out more often.  After all, macadamias are famously hard to crack! (of course, I made a gingerbread one too because I just love gingerbread that much)

Little Witch Academia feels like an absolute miracle to me; the way it popped up as part of the Young Animator Training Project, crowdfunding a sequel and eventually flourishing into a full, two-cour TV anime is one of the most exciting things I’ve watched play out in anime.  The entire cast is fantastic and loveable and out of all of them my absolute favourite is Akko herself.

I must say, it was a little harder to get the fondant as flat as I wanted on the macadamia cookie surface since it was a little rougher, but I am still super happy with the results.  Even though it’s covered by her hat when she’s finished, I really enjoy putting in the details on her hair.  Little things like that and the bright pink of the inner part of her hood are really satisfying to add in.  My new method of cookie design using 3D printed icing cutters saved a lot of time too, allowing me to put together eight cookies in an afternoon when before I would only have managed one or two!  Hooray!

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A Shinobu cookie would have to be called a "Bakermonogatari", right?  A true Acerola Bon Appétit!  I'm really happy with all of them but each of them has something I wish I could have replicated on the other two.  It's tough to remember exactly what I did each time to make them turn out that way...!

ジンジャーブレッドとフォンダンで再現された忍野忍。

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Kay/Kei from Girls und Panzer!  Whilst Saunders aren’t the best team (that is a hard tie between Anzio and St. Gloriana), Kay is super cool and makes me feel like I understand what American patriotism is all about!  I like how she’s always smiling and being a good sport, win or lose. I really like the ship between her and Darjeeling a whole lot.  Really encapsulates the Special Relationship, but even besides that they complement each other really well!

In retrospect, writing her name in red, white and blue seemed like a good idea but the way I did it caused it to look rather like the French flag... I am looking forward to seeing what she gets up to in Das Finale episode 2!

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I made this Rei last year as a Christmas present for a friend who really, really likes Rei.  Sadly her head came off in the mail - didn't use enough jam I guess!  I really enjoyed Rei in Rebuild 2.0, so I hope we get to see that version of her again in the finale.

Although it is inspired by one of the many figure designs she and Asuka have received over the years, I make sure to draw all of my designs from scratch.  With this I was aiming for a style along the lines of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, hence the proportions and pointy shoulders and joints.  Unfortunately the tail broke, which I think I’ve learned how to avoid since then.

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Kamina from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, recreated in fondant icing on top of my extra spicy gingerbread!  His famous sunglasses are made of hard candy melted down and cut into shape, and if you look closely you can see his eyes behind them.

This was the first really elaborate project I did with icing art, for better and for worse.  At the time I didn’t really have a good idea of how things like noses would be best implemented with fondant and I went far too heavy on the apricot glaze.  However, as messy as they are, I think his sunglasses came out very well!  They were very difficult to cut because even as I poured it, it solidified extremely quickly.  I attempted to pour it into a shape made of baked gingerbread like one would when making stained glass cookies, but the biscuit absorbed a lot of the molten sweet which led to some hasty decision making - that explains the missing tip on the top right!

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A cookie I made to celebrate Hana's birthday back in January.  Please excuse my terrible handwriting!

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Dorothy and Leona from Pripara! Pripara might just be my all-time favourite anime and these twins are just two of the many super fun characters. Dorothy is a cute little tomboy with a malicious streak who is super protective of her brother, whilst Leona is her adorable and extremely effeminate brother who is super sweet and good at preventing her from getting into trouble. Patience of a saint, let me tell you. It’s a powerful combination and I love them very much! I took a break from gingerbread this to make shortbread incorporating dried blackberries from my garden. It took 140 icing shapes to put this together, all of which I cut out by hand. It took absolutely forever to design and even longer to build, but I am extremely happy with the results!

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I made these cute Serval cookies early last year.  They were kind of a mess, because I wanted to make them for all my friends and on top of being the most elaborate design I had done at the time, I made the grave mistake of trying to make six of them at once.  Up until very recently I cut out all the icing pieces by hand which took ages and ages, so it was a pretty arduous task to get everything how I wanted!  It wasn’t until months later that I realised I forgot to colour in the tips of her ears.  Despire everything, I still think they turned out pretty cute.

Anyways, Serval is a very special friend, I wish Japari Park was real ;_;

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Back in February I decided to make a cookie of the best precure, Kurumi Erika aka Cure Marine from Heartcatch Precure! Isn't she just the cutest? I painted her eyes with blue food colouring and a fine paintbrush, before going over it with a dark blue icing pen to create the pupils and darker hues on the irises.