Nerd Cake

Last week, there were three birth­days at the Spousal Unit’s office.  One of his cowork­ers really enjoys mak­ing pretty cakes, and came up with these fun creations.

Rock, Paper, Scis­sors, Lizard, Spock

This was a lemon cake.  The dia­gram is a ref­er­ence to Big Bang The­ory.  Rock, paper, scis­sors was just too pre­dictable for them, so one char­ac­ter added lizard and Spock.  The cake serves as a ready ref­er­ence for the rules of the game.  Alas, they all loved the Spock option so much, every­one kept throw­ing Spock.

Gan­dalf Cupcakes

Upon pre­sent­ing these, the Spousal Unit told me this was Gan­dalf the Brown.  My imme­di­ate reac­tion was, “No, that’s Radagast.”

Of course, after I said that, he could not resist renew­ing his undy­ing affec­tion for me. Talk nerdy to me, baby.

When I cook, it’s usu­ally yummy but ugly, so I’m in awe of the skill it took to cre­ate these.   The lit­tle wiz­ards were espe­cially beau­ti­ful in per­son.  They looked like they were aged cop­per dolls with that green­ish rim.  I didn’t even real­ize they were edi­ble at first because they were so pretty.   Thanks to Chris’ cowork­ers for such cool cre­ations and pic­tures to share!