Here's the Cake Wrecks website to see the crazy messy cakes some people make:







But here are some beautiful ones:

Remember I was talking about the different kinds of frosting??  Here is the regular frosting that we did.  Click the picture to see more piping images.





And here is fondant.  See how it's more smooth and you can add details?  Very cool.
Click the picture to see more fondant cakes.

Here is how to pipe a rose out of frosting:




Here is how to do fondant (which I have never done before, but would like to try if you want):

Mandelbrot and Fractals

Here is Mandelbrot!  Click on his picture for more information about him.

He liked symmetry too, which is how he came up with Mandelbrot Set fractals!
Play with symmetry here:

Sammy's Symmetry Shuffle

Symmetry Artist



Look at all of the amazing pictures that come up when you search for Mandelbrot on Google:

And here is a video showing all of the fractals as you zoom in closer and closer on the Mandelbrot Set!  SO COOL!!

Vi Hart does it with doodles!

And with numbers!  See how they grow and grow and would never ever stop if she had enough space??

Look what all of these people did with triangles!!  And guess where this was done--ALBUQUERQUE!!
A World Record Triangle Fractal!!

Maybe we should make a fractal wall in our house!!

Here are more pictures about it on a blog:

GIANT TRIANGLE FRACTAL

Here are some games about fractals:
FRACTAL GAMES