Welcome to Geek Cake !
The purpose of this blog is simple and twofold
1) To trawl the intarwebs finding pictures (and if possible the story behind) the geekiest cakes there are.
2) To share those pictures from one central locale – here!
I hope you enjoy looking at these bizzare edible works of geek as much as I do.
If you have made a geek cake, or seen one online that you think should be shared with world, please email me at faintdreams[at]gmail[dot]com.
Thanks !
Aaaaaaaah Christmas. A time for reflection, thanks, good food, family gatherings and most importantly of all – the traditional DR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.1
So here for your delight is a gingerbread TARDIS in all it’s shiny glory:
Gingerbread TARDIS
Created by Annamaria42 over at Flickr.com. The entire creation is made from just gingerbread and icing sugar.
Happy Christmas everyone. I shall be posting a few more cakes before the 25th December (09), I am just not sure when 
1If you are reading in the UK the 2009 Christmas Special (part 1 of 2) will be aired 6pm BBC One Christmas day 
Tanks are industrious robust pieces of machinery as any military geek will tell you – at great length. The granddady of the modern tank (as we know it today) was the armoured car, first widely used during World War One. The first armoured cars with mounted guns were developed by the Austrians during the Italo-Turkish war of the early 1900′s.
But enough history, you came here for cake right? Well allow me to present the ingeniously designed moving tank cake.
This wonderful creation is featured (with full instructions) over at Instructables.com. The baking engineer is one Dave Spencer.
Tank Cake
The inside of the cake has a welded metal foundation, and apart from the interior tubing and the wooden base) it’s all edible.
Tank Cake Metal tubing
I shall let Dave explain:
“I made 4 cakes for this. One cake was baked in a pot the same diameter as the turret pan. A little bit of carving and I had my turret shape and clearance for the barrel and mechanism.
The other cakes were baked in a 9 x 11 inch pan. Once cooled the rounded tops were sliced off. These tops were used for the ground. The main parts of the cake were carved to fit around the mechanism and stacked to create the rough tank shape. All pieces were “glued” together with icing. “
A bit of carving with a sharp knife and it was starting to look like a tank.
Tank Cake Front View
I highly recommend Dave Spencers own blog Mechanical Mashup for some interesting geek video projects
Until next time.
Hello all. Apologies for my posting absence. The blogger site was eaten b seas of spam comments, and I wanted to move to a hosted domain and.. [ bladdity blah] excuses.
I am truly sorry and will not falter again in my quest to bring you fascinating, amusing, and sometimes weird geek cakes of all descriptions. I pledge to give you all one cake per week for as long as I can. I pledge to always find as much info as I can about said cakes. I pledge to stop making pledges.
Thanks for reading !
Faintdreams
On my previous post (Monday of this week) I showcased a marvellous graph geekcake.
Today I’d like to share with you a jaw droppingly cute wedding geekcake. Originally featured over at Symmetry magazine. Symmetrymagazine.org Symmetry is an online, and paper magazine about particle physics and its connections to other aspects of life and science, from interdisciplinary collaborations to policy to culture.
Jason Rieger married Leah Welty, in August of 2004. Below is a picture of their cake.
Original photo taken by: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab
See you on Friday!
A bashful woman called Jennifer Harris sent me an email which read thus:
I thought I’d send you some pics of a geeky cake I did for my college’s Economics Liaison bake sale. Every year when the Simmons College Economics Liaison has a bake sale they like to have a supply and demand graph cake. This is the cake from the year. I headed up the bake sale. It’s not as fancy as some of the cakes you’ve featured on your blog, but it will certainly supply anyone’s demand for cake!
Jennifer I salute you and your most delicious looking cake!
See you all on Wednesday.
Dice.
Any table top RPG geek will always have a healthy collection of all shapes and sizes of dice.
The oldest known recorded reference to dice, is Sophocles the Greek writer. Sopocles lived between 496-406 BC, and being Greek, he claimed that the Greek invented dice, but there is no way to verify his claim. I’m not saying they didn’t invent them, just that the Ancient Romans and Greeks do want to seem to take the creadit for inventing almost *everything*.
Apparently, before standard cubical dice became common, ancient peoples would use fruit stones, sets of flat sticks, sea shells, nut shells or even marked pebbles to get random results for games. Hmm. Fruit and Nut. Which leads me neatly to my favourite subject – of cake.
The cake pictured below is fashioned after the ever plentiful D20 – the twenty sided die. Every table top gamer I have ever met owns at least ten of these babies.
Used in numerous systems from original D&D to Warhammer, to World of Darkness to GURPS, dice are the universal RPG signature accessory.
Doesn’t it look magnificently delicious?
I love the fact that the cake looks HUGE!
Thanks for reading.
See you all again on Friday!
[*At various points in history, small animal bones were used as dice. Playing with dice is still sometimes known as "rolling the bones".]
Lori over at the Clever Cake Studio blog, loves to experiment with the art of cake making:
“Since March 2008, I’ve been doing a cake almost every week to practice, learn, cry, recover, learn more, and make local supply shops rich. Here you’ll find the results of each week’s cake project as my little portfolio builds. Share in my relief and amazement each time a cake works out, and witness just how damn clever I have to force myself to be if things don’t quite go as planned. “
Lori goes into detail on the cake creation:
“The book is supposed to be reminiscent of the CRC Handbook for Chem and Physics (87th Edition). It is for the birthday of an awesome chemical engineer at Nintendo.It’s made with white cake and chocolate filling. The red Erlenmeyer flash is raspberry with some raspberry liquor in the cake and preserves between the layers. The yellow acid bottle is, naturally, lemon cake with lemon curd filling. They are all covered in buttercream and fondant, and yes, the stopper in the acid bottle is a separate piece and can be lifted out.”
Be sure to check out Lori’s full gallery here, for plenty more fantastic (though not necessarily geeky) cakes.
I wish more cakes referenced textbook editions as inspiration. A true academia geekcake. Sounds delicious too.
See you Wednesday.
A quick one tonight.
Geeks seem to love Lego. I think it’s the building combination possibilities.
Geeks feel passionate about the Star Wars universe. Even if you don’t love it , I know, that you know, a geek who does.
So it is with great pleasure I present to you a giant, geekcake, Lego minifig, Chocolate, Anakin!
Ahh, the humble web-comic. Although some are geekier than others, anyone who spends any significant amount of time online has a favourite one.
According to Wikipeda, the medium has only been around since the late 1980′s. I’m not so sure about that, but I do know that one of the most fondly regarded web-comics currently in existence is (probably) xkcd.
It’s uber geek (and proud of it), and mixes biting sarcasm with multi layered humour about high level maths, academia, physics, all thinks geek, and the authors musings on life, love and what it is to be human.
As you may have gathered I’m a little bit of a fan.
So I was delighted when I stumbled across a gorgeously iced xkcd cake which recreated an entire comic, over at the Google-centric blog Googlified.
[If you have any more info, about the creation of this iced gem, please do drop me an email at my gmail address]
That’s it for tonight. See you Wednesday !
