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How to Bake Salvador Dalí's 'The Persistence of Memory' as a Cake

It only took cake-maker extraordinaire NerdyKat 10 hours to make.
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The iconic melting clocks and too-blue skies of Spanish Surrealist superstar Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory takes on a delicious new life as a dessert, thanks to cake-maker extraordinaire NerdyKat. In an Instructables post, she details the 10-hour process of recreating the 1931 canvas as a confection. The final result is a stunning testament to the influence of the painter on popular culture.

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Most of the ingredients and tools are expected, like butter, eggs, flour, and cake boards, but the need for picture frame hooks, a paintbrush, and a hammer and nails hints that the recipe is truly Dalí-esque. The recipe is straightforward, but by no means easy. As oneInstructables commentor adds, the recipe also requires, "3.9 stone of sheer talent, 7 metric scads of skill, 1 heap of attention to detail, 2 incredibly steady hands, 4 or 5 bushels of perseverance, and 1 peck of patience-of-the-saints."

Dalí called his quixotic and at times unintelligible paintings, "hand-painted dream photographs," and NerdyKat's hand-painted dream cake lives up to the description. If you have 10 hours to make some edible art, peep the full Instructable here.

See more of NerdyKat's creations on Instructables.

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