Hiding Spider-Man on wedding cakes is apparently becoming a trend

After redditor PoliticalMilkman posted this photo of his cousin's wedding cake yesterday, both other redditors and Neatorama noted that this isn't the first time they've spotted Spider-Man hiding under a wedding cake. Is Spider-Man trying to slip away while the miniature groom is preoccupied? Or will they cut the cake…

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This is the best Star Wars cake we've ever seen

Holy Hoth, this cake version of a Star Wars Star Destroyer is glorious. Look at it, with its icing, and its gorgeous stand that makes it look like it's floating — it even lights up! This cake is too beautiful to eat. We should all just tenderly stroke the grey icing with respect and awe.

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No fandom is safe from the relentless assault of Winnie the Pooh

We all know Winnie the Pooh as a beloved children's book character, a Disney icon and, of course, a honey fetishist. But the "willy nilly silly old bear" and his friends have made three recent incursions into nerd-dom that may indicate a more concerted effort by the denizens of Hundred Acre Wood to take over every…

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The sweetest model of Minas Tirith is made of cake and icing

The cake knife that was broken shall return to Minas Tirith. The Cake Geek of Valrico, Florida, made this amazing wedding cake replica of the fortified city from Lord of the Rings. It's almost a pity that it fell to the siege of hungry wedding guests.

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This sutured skin cake might just be too gruesome to eat

Few things could put me off a slice of delicious cake, but the thought of cutting into this Frankenstein's monster of a confection might just do it. Cake designer Gillian Bell created this skin cake in honor of her new venture "Slice," which blends the mouth-watering with the macabre. I'm not sure which part is more…

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We can't resist this massive Borg Cube wedding cake

When redditor pat_inthehat posted that his aunt makes wedding cakes, he made a serious understatement. She doesn't just make cakes; she makes delectable vessels of flour and frosting. Her Borg Cube cake is fantastic, swarmed by little plastic starships, but that won't save it from being assimilated into the guests'…

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Fresalina Limoneta is the scariest slice of lab-grown cake you've ever…

Let's get one thing right out in the open: I'm all for lab-grown food. I think that lab-grown meat and burgers, for example, could soon become a great way to circumvent a lot of the environmental and ethical problems of today's meat industry. But I think we can all agree that if our foodstuffs were ever to sprout eyes, …

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What does it mean if you don't want to have sex?

Famed sexologist Alfred Kinsey called them "group X." Big Bang Theory calls them people who, like Sheldon, "have no deal." But the one percent of the population who aren't interested in sex call themselves asexuals, aces, or, more simply, people who would pick cake over sex.

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The great atomic bomb cake controversy of 1946

In 1946, a mushroom cloud-shaped cake was served at a Washington D.C. military party celebrating the task force that oversaw atomic tests in the Pacific post-World War II. The photo of this garish pastry caused a bizarre international fracas.

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What will physics research look like after the Singularity?

Over at the Physics And Cake blog, there's a great discussion of exactly how machines will replace theoretical physicists, with their only goal being to create a perfect model of the universe, and no ego at stake.

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