• 20 Creative, Artistic and Geeky Cake Designs

    (image via: Zarathud)

    Yes, it’s the “Baby Alien” cake, created for some geekette’s baby shower by Zarathud, a cake-maker with an unearthly sense of humor. That’s one weird kid and he/she’s not even born yet! The alien shown bursting from the flesh-toned body of the cake is made of marzipan and drips bright red raspberry “blood”.

    (image via: TGDaily)

    Reluctantly leaving the world - universe, even - of entertainment, the following cakes stick tightly to the ribs of every geek’s obsession: computers. Comp cakes are a dime a dozen but it takes a capital G Geek to appreciate the Motherboard cake depicted above left. The clincher? Chorltan, whose wife baked the sugary circuit board says “I did a google search and could not find any other references to such a thing.” Sorry Chorltan, you should have adjusted your search parameters… it seems your birthday surprise is not the mother of all motherboard cakes.

    (image via: Killer Cakes)

    There are hardware geeks and there are software geeks, linked by their love of cake. Even so, one can’t expect a Linux lover to enjoy a Windows cake, birthday or not. For those who follow the cult of the penguin, the Tux cake above is just the thing. Handle with care - Ubuntu, you buy it.

    (image via: Source Site)

    Speaking of Windows, the much maligned Vista operating system recently celebrated it’s first birthday and the occasion called for a Vista cake… and not just any cake would do. One must assume the knife-wielding server either hates Vista or loves cake - or maybe both. In any case, Vista’s bright and colorful logo has inspired more than a few cake-making attempts that, like its namesake, have been known to fall flat when the heat is on.

    (image via: Old Recipe Book, upper left and Zalita-gone)

    Computers themselves are favorite subjects for geeks of all ages. Decorating options range from whimsical gumdrop keys to factual representations that go for accuracy down to the cables and connecting ports.

    (image via: ThinkGeek)

    Perhaps the ultimate geek cake would be one baked not in the oven, but IN a computer! While it may look more like a pancake than a cake baked in a pan, what comes out of the cheekily named PC-EZ-Bake Drive will pass the taste test for any student cramming for an exam. That is, of course, if it were real - and it’s not. Full props to the ThinkGeek geeks for the concept though!

    (image via: Diamondvues)

    Birthdays don’t have a monopoly on cakes and geeks do grow up and get married… well, some do. Those with exceedingly tolerant fiances or, wonder of wonders, are marrying their opposite-sex geek counterpart might want to consider a wedding cake that reflects their mutual interests. Forget the champagne, these geek wedding cakes are best served with Benderbrau or Botweiser.

    (image via: ClockwrkOrangeSS)

    The award for Most Obvious name goes to… the iCake. Apple’s iPhone, not to mention the company’s other i-products, lend themselves particularly well to cake design and there are a huge variety of them out there. Some are better than others and the precise design above (beside the water bottle) is one of the most elaborate.

    Just in case ones hunger for geek cakes remains un-sated, the above video by Science Junkies covers some of the best and a lot of the rest, set to the sweet sounds of Daft Punk. It’s the icing on the cake!

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    27 Comments

    • Sadie
      September 24th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

      The Star Trek cake was made by Charm City Cakes, they featured it on Ace of Cakes. The cake was made for the groom of a wedding and I thought it was really sweet of the bride to do that for him since she herself wasn’t a trekkie.

      The Pacman Cupcakes were made by a lady named Naomi I think, they circulated around the gaming boards for some time now. She’s made some really good Mario ones as well.

    • Meg
      September 25th, 2008 at 1:36 am

      Heh - these are great. for his 6th birthday, my son had a cake shaped like his Nintendo DS: http://i119.photobucket.com/al.....nyc002.jpg

    • Zarathud
      September 25th, 2008 at 9:34 am

      Hi, Zarathud here with a few corrections. I’m glad you liked the Alien baby cake :)

      My lovely wife made the cake, not I. Yes, she made her own baby shower cake — none of her friends were quite up to the task.

      Our son has since been born, but yes, he seems destined to be a little weird. :)

      The ‘blood’ is strawberry, not raspberry.

    • kelly
      September 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am

      wow … tell your wife the alien take rocks … 1st is was a little morbid but the “blood” looked tasty :P …. is she doing an AVP cake anytime soon?

    • sherrib
      September 25th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

      Alien cake maker here - maybe #2 will get an AVP cake, or at least an Alien queen. Since the family has already been appropriately horrified, the sky’s the limit!

    • Mash churbeta
      September 25th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

      Nice cakes

    • lyle
      September 26th, 2008 at 12:22 am

      …that’s no moon.

    • Maskin
      September 26th, 2008 at 3:02 am

      The cake is a lie 8D

      http://www.laglive.com/wp-cont.....-a-lie.jpg

    • Jeff Gedney
      September 26th, 2008 at 6:30 am

      I think that this cake I did also qualifies…
      http://pics.livejournal.com/ca.....c/00035sf3

      It’s Minas Tirith.
      I did iT for a LOTR themed wedding this last June
      (I am not a professional or anything)

      Jeffg

    • Fiona
      October 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm

      A friend of mine, who is now working at a winery as a baker, made Galaga cupcakes once: http://big-chef.com/tsir/?p=516

    • mobilya
      October 7th, 2008 at 5:56 am

      I think he is fan of Star Trek . . .

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