Highways in Cake Form

[kurumi]

I guess you're a real roadgeek if you've made a highway-themed birthday cake. That's still on my bucket list.

Here are some yummy concoctions that really exist(ed):

• Eight-lane Highway 40 (I-64), Missouri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6EEK1tjh-w
• Roadways and cars: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6239/6237347179_43f063ee85.jpg
• Multi-tier "highway of life": http://media.cakecentral.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/327043/600-Mike_Davenport_Highway_of_Life.jpg
• Highway on a briefcase: http://loloscakesandsweets.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/this-is-your-life-highway-birthday-cake.jpg
• Overpass: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgexpD52bEY/TfcWgozHMiI/AAAAAAAABkI/UytVRyWQGyw/s1600/IMG_4111.JPG
• Map (printed, though) of JB: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SlF-FX-Sp7E/TwbOelmtTOI/AAAAAAAAAT4/lZETv9hgZe0/s1600/jb+road+map+birthday+cake.jpg

Can we do better? A SPUI? Breezewood?

[Kacie Jane]

Closest I've come is an I-12 shield for my 12th birthday.

[agentsteel53]

Closest I've come is an I-12 shield for my 12th birthday.

did it have the state name?

[Alps]

I nominate this thread as the greatest ever.

[Kacie Jane]

Closest I've come is an I-12 shield for my 12th birthday.

did it have the state name?

My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I'm going to say, yes, it did.  And my friends and parents were very confused as to why it said Louisiana, given that we lived in New Jersey and none of us had ever been to Louisiana.  But that could just be an implanted memory.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Closest I've come is an I-12 shield for my 12th birthday.

I could have a VA 28 shield done for my 28th birthday this year, but I'm worried Ethanman will run in and turn it into an I-366 shield.

[Bickendan]

I'll ask for an I-30 or a US 30 cake for my 30th birthday next year. And either one will be state-named

[usends]

Chocolate chips make yummy button-copy.
Not a big fan of black frosting, though...

[hbelkins]

Somewhat related, this is a cake modeled after a certain Bristol night race in the late 1990s.

[Takumi]

Oh that is just awesome, HB.

[hbelkins]

That was a cake from Kroger that my wife got me. It came with the Mark Martin and Terry Labonte cars. I had a small Dale Earnhardt car so I put it out front and rattled Labonte's cage. The ironic thing is that Martin was running pretty close behind Labonte with the infamous cage-rattling took place, so the cake has some semblance of accuracy.

[formulanone]

Needs more banking...also, donuts. But the historical accuracy wins out.

Never thought to ask for a race car cake...hmm, going to have to convince my son it's a great theme for his 2nd birthday.

[Kacie Jane]

Needs more banking...also, donuts. But the historical accuracy wins out.

Mmmmm... Donuts....

[J N Winkler]

This cake was eaten on the evening of December 5, 2008:  fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Preston Bypass, first motorway in the United Kingdom.

[qguy]

With that end tab, I sure wouldn't want that cake for a 70th birthday!