We are besieged with talk of crisis, meltdown, earthquakes, sink holes, global warming, bailouts, and more. Once you realize there's not a whole lot of time left, grab a Bundt pan and whip up your own scrumptious Fallen Angel Food Cake--or one of the other 29 apocalyptic cakes in this irreverent cookbook--and indulge in your final days. Each full-color dessert photograph is accompanied by a short hilarious description.
Shannon O'Malley is an advertising writer and urchin arts enthusiast in San Francisco. She created the first version of Apocalypse Cakes in 2008 as a birthday gift for her girlfriend. The original 'zine included 8 photoshopped pages printed at a Kinko's and stapled at Shannon's ad agency. With urging from friends, she continued the project as a blog which gained notice after she posted recipes for Global Jihad Date Cake and Seismic Haitian Mud Cake. She has no previous baking experience. Follow her at www.shannonomalley.com and on Twitter @apocalypsecakes.
Apocalypse Cakes photographer Keith Wilson is a filmmaker and visual artist based in San Francisco. He holds an MFA in film production from the University of Texas at Austin where he is an instructor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film. He lives in San Francisco, California. See more of Keith's work at www.wall-eye.com and read his important twits @keithtwitted.
