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October 14, 2009 9:45 AM Subscribe
Does anyone have any ideas for dungeons and dragons/ roleplaying themed baked goods?
I am determined to make something awesome to bring to my D&D game on sunday, but am not sure what i want to make.
I need inspiration for cakes/biscuits/other things that are somehow appropriately themed. Anything i brought would have to be able to sit for 2 hours till the break, and be eaten using only hands and a napkin.
I am determined to make something awesome to bring to my D&D game on sunday, but am not sure what i want to make.
I need inspiration for cakes/biscuits/other things that are somehow appropriately themed. Anything i brought would have to be able to sit for 2 hours till the break, and be eaten using only hands and a napkin.
Hardtack? The D&D universe isn't much of one for sweets. Turkey legs would be fairly appropriate, but they're not really baked goods.
posted by craven_morhead at 9:48 AM on October 14, 2009
posted by craven_morhead at 9:48 AM on October 14, 2009
Aren't there lots of Halloween themed recipes on all the magazine covers this month? Maybe look at those for inspiration if some of the monster types overlap. Or use "Halloween" in your search terms to find similar things on line.
You could use graham crackers or other square cookies to lay out a dungeon map on a tray, then use the gelatinous cubes or other creepy thins to populate individual squares with a treat.
posted by CathyG at 9:54 AM on October 14, 2009
You could use graham crackers or other square cookies to lay out a dungeon map on a tray, then use the gelatinous cubes or other creepy thins to populate individual squares with a treat.
posted by CathyG at 9:54 AM on October 14, 2009
You'll want to start here for that.
A friend made what she jokingly called elven waybread, which was a very dense, sweet shortcake.
posted by adipocere at 9:59 AM on October 14, 2009
A friend made what she jokingly called elven waybread, which was a very dense, sweet shortcake.
posted by adipocere at 9:59 AM on October 14, 2009
Response by poster: Heh, the universe may not be one for sweets, but brownies and chocolate cake have gone down very well previously, our group seems to have a definite sweet tooth
posted by stillnocturnal at 10:00 AM on October 14, 2009
posted by stillnocturnal at 10:00 AM on October 14, 2009
....wait for it....
THE BUNS OF VECNA!!
Alternatively, depending on the audience: THE NUTS OF VECNA!!
For those unaware of what I am talking about, please read one of the funniest role-playing stories ever told.
posted by Kickstart70 at 10:01 AM on October 14, 2009 [2 favorites]
THE BUNS OF VECNA!!
Alternatively, depending on the audience: THE NUTS OF VECNA!!
For those unaware of what I am talking about, please read one of the funniest role-playing stories ever told.
posted by Kickstart70 at 10:01 AM on October 14, 2009 [2 favorites]
Mead.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:10 AM on October 14, 2009
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:10 AM on October 14, 2009
My rule of thumb would be "anything I can eat like a barbarian". So although whole-roasted quails might not be the best idea, maybe something savory like pasties? I also imagine bread-and-cheese to be a good staple, so maybe play around with something like that?
posted by specialagentwebb at 10:12 AM on October 14, 2009
posted by specialagentwebb at 10:12 AM on October 14, 2009
Caramel beholders
(I'm assuming a caramel apple with eyestalks made of toothpicks with rat eyeballs stuck on the end... or substitute rat eyeballs with something eyeball-looking...)
posted by ServSci at 10:13 AM on October 14, 2009
(I'm assuming a caramel apple with eyestalks made of toothpicks with rat eyeballs stuck on the end... or substitute rat eyeballs with something eyeball-looking...)
posted by ServSci at 10:13 AM on October 14, 2009
Turkish delight = gelatinous cube
Possibly get a tray, split it into sections for the alignments, and think of appropriate snacks for each (lawful good get nice things, chaotic evil gets a pile of broken cookies)?
Flying skull cookies.
posted by Coobeastie at 10:35 AM on October 14, 2009
Possibly get a tray, split it into sections for the alignments, and think of appropriate snacks for each (lawful good get nice things, chaotic evil gets a pile of broken cookies)?
Flying skull cookies.
posted by Coobeastie at 10:35 AM on October 14, 2009
(Disclaimer: I have never actually played D&D.)
Some sort of bad pun is almost always a great idea with baked goods - Chocolate Hobnoblins, ideally, as you seem to be in the UK. (Worse options, scrolling through a list of monsters: Unicornbread, Dark Scones, Vampie, Caketongues, etc. Dungeon Pasta, if you ever want some savoury cutlery-requiring food.)
Encounter Cookies - make a batch of cookies (or cupcakes or brownies) with different additions to each one (nuts, choc chips, coconut, berries, etc), and randomly select which one each player gets.
posted by severalbees at 10:37 AM on October 14, 2009
Some sort of bad pun is almost always a great idea with baked goods - Chocolate Hobnoblins, ideally, as you seem to be in the UK. (Worse options, scrolling through a list of monsters: Unicornbread, Dark Scones, Vampie, Caketongues, etc. Dungeon Pasta, if you ever want some savoury cutlery-requiring food.)
Encounter Cookies - make a batch of cookies (or cupcakes or brownies) with different additions to each one (nuts, choc chips, coconut, berries, etc), and randomly select which one each player gets.
posted by severalbees at 10:37 AM on October 14, 2009
This Flying Spaghetti Monster Haystack would make an amazing Beholder with minor modifications.
posted by contraption at 10:50 AM on October 14, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by contraption at 10:50 AM on October 14, 2009 [2 favorites]
Cake shaped like a d20 (or perhaps some less ambitious numbered polygon...)
posted by jon1270 at 11:13 AM on October 14, 2009
posted by jon1270 at 11:13 AM on October 14, 2009
D&D is basically Tolkien with dice, so:
Lembas! (Soft gingerbread cookies with cream-cheese filling, perhaps?)
Or anything else listed in that article.
Seconding mead, if you know where to get good stuff—bad mead is, well, bad.
posted by ixohoxi at 11:14 AM on October 14, 2009
Lembas! (Soft gingerbread cookies with cream-cheese filling, perhaps?)
Or anything else listed in that article.
Seconding mead, if you know where to get good stuff—bad mead is, well, bad.
posted by ixohoxi at 11:14 AM on October 14, 2009
As someone who, along with a dear friend, has a longstanding dream of owning a bake shop called "Critical Cakes," I feel the need to step in here. The above idea to reference Halloween food is a fantastic one.
Some things I've made (or want to make):
- cupcakes decorated to resemble D20's.
- cakepops decorated to resemble eyeballs.
- hotdogs wrapped in croissants to resemble mummies.
- 12 sided chocolate chip cookies.
As an additional note, one element that we've added to our games that has been wildly successful is to use candy in the game itself. Skittles represent monsters (if you're playing 4th edition, you can even color-code the Skittles to represent minions/soldiers/etc.). We also use Starbursts to represent different marks on the monsters. If you get the killing blow on something, you get to eat it.
It makes it far more enjoyable to take down the level 3 goblin sharpshooter that you've had marked for the past three rounds if you also get to devour a purple Skittle and red Starburst.
posted by DulcineaX at 11:26 AM on October 14, 2009
Some things I've made (or want to make):
- cupcakes decorated to resemble D20's.
- cakepops decorated to resemble eyeballs.
- hotdogs wrapped in croissants to resemble mummies.
- 12 sided chocolate chip cookies.
As an additional note, one element that we've added to our games that has been wildly successful is to use candy in the game itself. Skittles represent monsters (if you're playing 4th edition, you can even color-code the Skittles to represent minions/soldiers/etc.). We also use Starbursts to represent different marks on the monsters. If you get the killing blow on something, you get to eat it.
It makes it far more enjoyable to take down the level 3 goblin sharpshooter that you've had marked for the past three rounds if you also get to devour a purple Skittle and red Starburst.
posted by DulcineaX at 11:26 AM on October 14, 2009
You don't make these beverages, but they are popular with D&D players.
Some inspiration, if not recipes:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/baking/dungeons-dragons-cakes-the-ner/
I like the MM cake. You could make a rectangular cake, frost it with chocolate icing, and then use cake decorating tools to make it look like a 3e Players Handbook, Monster Manual, or GM's Guide.
Oh, and let's face it--the official food of D&D is pizza! Make a square pizza crust with pepperoni placed like the pips on a die.
posted by magstheaxe at 12:08 PM on October 14, 2009
Some inspiration, if not recipes:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/baking/dungeons-dragons-cakes-the-ner/
I like the MM cake. You could make a rectangular cake, frost it with chocolate icing, and then use cake decorating tools to make it look like a 3e Players Handbook, Monster Manual, or GM's Guide.
Oh, and let's face it--the official food of D&D is pizza! Make a square pizza crust with pepperoni placed like the pips on a die.
posted by magstheaxe at 12:08 PM on October 14, 2009
whatever you bring, D&D it up by putting them all in a "bag of holding" (you can probably find some cheap, small, drawstring bags at hobby lobby/michaels).
make sugar cookies in the shape of beer (mead) mugs and turkey legs
posted by nadawi at 1:09 PM on October 14, 2009
make sugar cookies in the shape of beer (mead) mugs and turkey legs
posted by nadawi at 1:09 PM on October 14, 2009
A bunch of cupcakes on a tray where you write in fancy script, one letter at at time "You just read explosive runes".
posted by ShawnStruck at 2:57 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by ShawnStruck at 2:57 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
Every player buys it when they first kit out their character, but no one ever uses it. Still, its bizarre popularity requires you to provide 50 feet of (licorice) rope!
posted by Ghidorah at 2:57 PM on October 14, 2009
posted by Ghidorah at 2:57 PM on October 14, 2009
The following suggestion is completely sincere:
Just bring whatever you'd normally bring, but make a little sign so that they're Bigby's Fudged Brownies or Bigby's Frosted Cupcakes or Bigby's Fork-Smashed Cookies. Etc etc for other goofily-named spells if you want.
Or bring a plate of prunes with a sign: Bigby's Relaxed Sphincter.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:39 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
Just bring whatever you'd normally bring, but make a little sign so that they're Bigby's Fudged Brownies or Bigby's Frosted Cupcakes or Bigby's Fork-Smashed Cookies. Etc etc for other goofily-named spells if you want.
Or bring a plate of prunes with a sign: Bigby's Relaxed Sphincter.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:39 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
Dungeons and Dragons cookies (don't look too hard to make, using maybe a dreidel cookie cutter).
You could also make a checkerboard cake using a kit like this (or just frost a regular cake in squares, or for the easiest method put alternate squares of chocolate or miniature chocolate bars on a vanilla-iced cake). Ta da! Instant edible gameboard. Put miniatures on it or use edible gummies for the "players".
posted by misha at 3:53 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
You could also make a checkerboard cake using a kit like this (or just frost a regular cake in squares, or for the easiest method put alternate squares of chocolate or miniature chocolate bars on a vanilla-iced cake). Ta da! Instant edible gameboard. Put miniatures on it or use edible gummies for the "players".
posted by misha at 3:53 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
I'm thinking you could make bags of holding filled with:
Twizzlers for the rope, wax bottles for potions, nerds or colored nonpareils for gems, gold chocolate coins, those lollipop rings, etc.
posted by misha at 4:07 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
Twizzlers for the rope, wax bottles for potions, nerds or colored nonpareils for gems, gold chocolate coins, those lollipop rings, etc.
posted by misha at 4:07 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
My gamer best friend went nuts when I gave her this bundt pan, which I found at a local department store. It complemented her famous cupcake knights perfectly.
posted by darksasami at 4:23 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by darksasami at 4:23 PM on October 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
If this will be done anywhere near a kitchen that doesn't mind too much deep-frying: Onion rings of power. Gummy were-bears?
If you have any kind of cocktail food, make sure you get the little plastic swords instead of toothpicks. Then, you can tsk anyone who's playing a cleric or a wizard when they reach for the snack, saying, 'I'm sorry, your class doesn't allow the use of swords.'
posted by Ghidorah at 8:09 PM on October 14, 2009
If you have any kind of cocktail food, make sure you get the little plastic swords instead of toothpicks. Then, you can tsk anyone who's playing a cleric or a wizard when they reach for the snack, saying, 'I'm sorry, your class doesn't allow the use of swords.'
posted by Ghidorah at 8:09 PM on October 14, 2009
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posted by Scattercat at 9:47 AM on October 14, 2009 [6 favorites]