Extreme dessert

The Food Network has a show called Foot Network Challenge, where chefs compete in making bizarre food items. I've seen pastry chefs do challenges involving blown sugar where some part had to be at least 5 feet tall, the whole thing had to be edible, and they had to move it (after it was finished) over an obstacle course. I've also seen them build wedding cakes unlike any you've ever seen in Wisconsin. A couple of weeks ago, it was a challenge for tappan chefs (like they have at Benihana's) and the competition included judging how funny they were with their "patter." The prize for each competition is $10,000. Not bad for one or two days TV work.

Tonight, they were doing extreme cakes. Most of the chefs came up with something that included fireworks. One made a "Revenge of the Sock Monkey" cake that was literally a five foot sock monkey made of cake with a removable brain made of dry ice and glowing red eyes. That won the $10,000 prize.

Does anyone want to eat these things afterwards? They show people in the audience, watching (for six or eight hours) with bated breath, ready to gasp if one of the sugar sculptures falls over and shatters. Dreams are crushed on this show. But for the winners--ah, the glory.

Anyone want a bite of sock monkey?