Some cake

Out of a whole collection of steampunk-themed cakes, this one has to be my favorite:

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It looks like something out of Girl Genius — it must have been made by a spark.

It's also interesting to see that there is a whole wide freaky cake-decorating sub-culture out there. Very cool.

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