Occassionally, and by this I mean very, very rarely, geeks find significant others and get married (in the real world, not Second Life!). When such an noteworthy event happens, blissful geeks have been known to go all out on their wedding cakes, creating frosted confections of such phenomenal nerditude that I had no choice but to reproduce a few here for your gawking pleasure.
In addition to the link above (check it out for more cool cakes), I had to do a bit of my own investigating and find some more nerdcakes.
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Its-a meeeeeeee........
A circuit-board cake:
All your base are belong to cake:
There's a lot of nintendo-themed cakes out there, but this one is Martha-approved.
I hear Churck Norris' tears cure cancer...
Wow, an iPhone cake. Now thats REALLY nerdy.
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I like cake.
Unfortunately, I'm not geeky enough to know what that gold thing is on top of the first cake. Help me?
Posted by: Dan | September 1, 2007 10:21 AM
The gold thing is definitely a Gamecube. I think that the gold one was a special release in Japan, but it might have been released here too.
I think making a cake with the most important plot/concept of your thesis for your PhD defense might be fun.
Posted by: Casey | September 1, 2007 10:45 AM
I can no longer decypher ASCII byte codes from memory, but I looked 'em up, and the "cake" byte array decodes to "red roses". FYI.
Posted by: Harlan | September 1, 2007 11:12 AM
Thanks Casey. You have no idea the good you've accomplished today.
Posted by: Dan | September 1, 2007 11:21 AM
My nerd cake.
Posted by: RPM | September 1, 2007 1:38 PM
The gold thing is definitely a Gamecube. I think that the gold one was a special release in Japan
Wow. That just adds a whole new level of nerd to it!
Posted by: Shelley | September 1, 2007 2:19 PM
I want a Dalek Cake.
I think that's pretty much the limits of my nerditude.
Posted by: Dan | September 1, 2007 2:29 PM
The Discworld cake is amazing.
Posted by: Eldritch Anchovy | September 1, 2007 3:05 PM
Oh, god, it's a FACS plot cake...
Posted by: Alioth | September 1, 2007 5:35 PM
It wasn't a cake, and I sadly don't have any pictures (at least none that I can find), but when I was in graduate school it was a tradition that your lab provided refreshments after you gave a departmental seminar. For one of my colleagues' seminar we bought a set of alphabet cookie-cutters and made a bunch of As, Cs. Gs, and Us so that we could lay out the sequence (and secondary structure) of a small RNA molecule she had sequenced.
Posted by: Guy Plunkett III | September 2, 2007 7:47 PM
Sadly on the wiimotes one of them should have the second light illuminated, they can't both be player 1
Posted by: Nate MC | September 3, 2007 6:23 PM
Guy: Thats awesome!! Your story as well as these cakes make me want to bake a huge hair cell or a cochlea cake for my defense. Nerd cakes rule.
Nate MC: Good catch. I guess Martha's minions shoulda been paying better attention.
Posted by: Shelley Batts | September 3, 2007 6:43 PM
I've eaten cakes that geeky! One friend had a Bender cake, and another had a Zelda Tri-Force cake. Unfortunately, my wedding was groom's-cake-free.
Posted by: Leon Barrett | September 3, 2007 7:08 PM
Mmmm... nerds
Posted by: Miriam | September 3, 2007 7:43 PM
Um, are those plastic homogenizing pestles featured in the last cake (the black plastic things coming out of the flask)???
Cause if so, thats the best use of non-toxic lab equipment utilized in cakes I've ever seen.
Posted by: Chris | September 3, 2007 7:54 PM
Here was my Mario-themed groom's cake.
Posted by: Mark Jaquith | September 3, 2007 10:22 PM
Don't forget this great link to Trilobite Cookies.
http://www.georgehart.com/trilobites/trilobite.html
Unless by mentioning cookies, I've opened a whole new topic.
Posted by: The Flying Trilobite | September 4, 2007 5:38 AM
Unfortunately I don't have any photos, but my girlfriend's 21st birthday cake was a Petri dish, with glossy blood agar and several 'streaks' and 'colonies' created in different colours. It looked awesome. If I can find a photo I'll come back with a link...
Posted by: Ithika | September 4, 2007 8:28 AM
Ithika, I wait with baited breath!
Posted by: Shelley Batts | September 4, 2007 8:37 AM
Brilliant. I love that the top one is the wedding cake, not the groom's cake. That adds a whole new nerd level. Love it.
Posted by: Tiffany | September 4, 2007 9:27 AM
I don't know if our wedding cake counts as a geek cake or not. We got married on Halloween and had Nightmare Before Christmas as our theme.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock | September 4, 2007 11:20 AM
I'm not sure much can top this discworld cake:
http://homepages.tesco.net/%7Ejanefisk/discworld/discworld.htm
Posted by: Rob | September 4, 2007 12:36 PM
the gold game cube was a zelda-themed limited edition that was released in Japan and is high coveted in the US
Posted by: daniel | September 4, 2007 1:50 PM
mmm. cake.
Posted by: k | September 4, 2007 5:44 PM
Hopefully this works, but you can check out my uber-geeky Magic:The Gathering birthday cake I made for my husband a few years ago. Its an artifact(Summon Cake), the mana cost was 29 (his age), and the text reads: (T) Make a wish, blow out candles. Birthday cake ages you by one year and your wish may be granted.
Hopefully this link works:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10885857@N03/1325496953/
Posted by: Calliope | September 4, 2007 10:49 PM
Now now how I wish I can find a baker who'll do that for me.
Posted by: barffie | September 4, 2007 11:40 PM
My wife and I made cookies that looked like legume root nodules for a seminar once, but I liked the flow cytometry cake.
Posted by: Ford | September 5, 2007 2:19 PM
Wow. I'm *totally* impressed. I like to bake cakes too...
http://ku.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=33530133&l=dbcf8&id=16808827
It's not quite a science cake, but a science experiment cake... Though at first glance, you might not notice, it's actually a Martha Stewart recipe.
Posted by: li ze | September 6, 2007 10:42 PM
(Visiting from Pharyngula.) Here is an interesting cake via evilmadscientist.com:
http://katzor.blogspot.com/2007/09/power-ee-nerds-eat-your-heart-out.html
Posted by: DustPuppyOI | September 9, 2007 6:04 PM
My (aerospace engineer) fiance is making a groom's cake in the shape of a Little Joe 2 rocket for our rehearsal dinner on Friday!
He's also making a card box in the shape of a mouse (for me, a neurobiologist in a mouse lab) for the reception itself.
Posted by: Mollie | September 9, 2007 10:17 PM
Makes me hungry just looking at them. It's cool that geeks can also cook and decorate.
Posted by: George Baker | September 11, 2007 8:02 AM
Very impressive. And while its IS a rarity for nerds to meet and marry, some of us do find our geeky soulmates. My husband and I skipped the geeky cake....
he was too busy building the custom royal blue lightsabers (combat capable and able to take a 32 bullet without breaking) as groom's gifts. I may well be the only bride in the world who got left at the side of the dancefloor so her new husband could go 4 rounds with assorted stormtrooper wannabe's!
Posted by: Jenna | September 11, 2007 2:49 PM
Great, really great... Mario's Cake doesnt even look like a cake, it looks like some tematic plastic made promotinal thing from Mario's world! ehehhe
Great cakes,
now I am hungry, bye.
Posted by: Marcello Moraes | September 11, 2007 3:01 PM
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Posted by: joćo victor br | September 14, 2007 7:55 PM
My son and daughter-in-law business
Posted by: Gary | October 26, 2007 11:14 AM
My son and daughter-in-law business
http://www.krazykakebakers.com/
Posted by: Gary | October 26, 2007 11:15 AM
We make funny cakes for our friends' birthdays at work. Some of them are nerdy (Munchkin cards), some are gross (one that looked like cat litter in a litter tray), and some are just freaking sweet! This Katamari cake was made for a friend who is obsessed with the game! We couldn't find a figurine, so I molded one out of clay. Besides the figurine and a pirate added to the top of the ball, the rest of the cake was edible, including all the candy and the giant ball of rolled up goodness.
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc95/ducttapedisciples/katamari11.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc95/ducttapedisciples/katamari5.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc95/ducttapedisciples/katamari10.jpg
Posted by: Ashley | November 27, 2007 3:22 PM
WOW! The Pictures are amazing and the idea of making a Cake in different shapes is very nice.
Posted by: manek | December 5, 2007 6:13 AM
In my Food Tech class, last year at school, I made a pink iPod cake ^^
To persuade my daddio to get me an iPod for Christmas. lol. These cakes are awesome!
lolsies =]
Posted by: Victoria | December 19, 2007 11:34 AM
Great Cakes.... :D
Posted by: Baris | December 28, 2007 2:51 AM
well. i can certainly say that my brother made a dungeons and dragons borad game cake for my sweet 16th. i didnt want to eat it but in the end i gave up trying to put it in cryogenic stasis and decided to eat it. but it tasted really nice. but i kept the little figures off the top.
my party was a game theme. i decided to go as zelda. she rocks. my boyfriend adam, went as link.
Posted by: queen-of-the-dorks | February 8, 2008 4:28 AM
Encouragement towards being geeky starts early in my family! Come see our Mad Scientist Cake: http://sciencejunkies.com/2008/03/08/party-science/ We didn't stop at the cake - see the rest of our nerdfest here: http://sciencejunkies.com/host-your-own-science-party/
Great Cakes! Thanks for posting them!
Posted by: ScienceJunkies | March 9, 2008 8:52 AM