Sunday Sweets: Geek Wedding Cakes!
June 26, 2011 Hi guys! john (the hubby of Jen) here. Jen asked me to write Sweets this week since she is apparently "busy" doing "everything else." (What? I moderate comments!)
Now, the problem is that today we have thoroughly awesome geek wedding cakes, and I am not, in the strictest sense of the word, a geek. At least, not to the degree which I've married into. However, for your entertainment and enlightenment I will now valiantly attempt to decipher these cakes without the help of Jen OR the interwebs. (May the Shwartz be with me!)
Submitted by Jess; baker unknown. Anyone recognize it?Batman and Wonder Woman! Great colors. And I think the bottom tier is... Metropolis? Maybe?
K, now they're getting harder:
Sub'd by Amanda H. and made by DuffletRight. The adorable mushroom toppers are from a Mario game, and the cake is decorated in binary. Booyah. Just don't go asking me to translate it. (And if you do, I'll guess it's something like "In geekiness, and in über geekiness, I thee wed.)
Now we're getting old school:
Look! It's Epcot!
Sub'd by Leah M. and made by Vallum House Cakes
Sub'd by Chris M. and made by Pink Cake Box(Why is Jen sighing so loudly behind me? And what is xkcd?)
Oh boy, I'm gonna get in trouble for this next one:
Sub'd by Maj G.; baker unknownIs it... Zelda? Made of Lego? I don't... I never played it, so...
*sigh*
Look, this is harder than it looks, Ok?
Uh-oh..
Made by redpanda19Oh! Oh! I know this! What is that show called?!? It's on the tip of my mind. It's got Bender and... that cyclops lady... Futurama!
Haha! And I've never even seen it!
Also, that crash-landing into the cake thing is genius.
This one I definitely know:
Cake by Queen of Cakes and topper by Sweet Frost Tops
Portal! Jen and I are actually playing the co-op version now.
(Well, not now now. I'm writing this post now. You get the idea.)
On a side note, I just realized something: If you write "The cake is a lie" on a cake, isn't that statement itself a lie? Technically, the lie is a lie since the cake is a cake.
Aaand now my brain hurts.
Let's wrap this up with one of my favorite cakes of all time, made by a baker who made one of our book tour cakes in Austin:
By Coco Paloma Desserts; photo by Sweet Caroline Photography
Godzilla!
Ya know, I just realized: I've never seen Godzilla. So Transformer Mrs. Godzilla could totally be in there. Huh.
Aaaamazing. Especially when you realize that the 'Zillas are edible. 'Cuz, oh yes, they are.(And speaking of figures, did you notice the bride is holding the groom? Too funny.)
Well, I hope you enjoyed these geeky wedding Sweets, everyone. And if you have a Sweet of your own you'd like to share, please send it to Sunday Sweets (at) Cake Wrecks (dot) com.
Oh, and have a great Sunday.
I'll be playing Portal.
Reader Comments (119)
If there really is any meaning to the binary, it's certainly not 8-bits ASCII. The following Python script cycles through all 8 possible "starting points" for bytes and prints the ASCII equivalent of each. Nothing but gibberish comes out. It's no better in 7 bits, either.
My guess is it's random, and from the looks of it, probably a human random generator too. I wrote down 390 bits, so you'd expect at least a handful of strings of five ones, but there are none.
#!/usr/bin/env python
cake = [
'0001100111101100001100111110',
'001101011101100110110011101110',
'1100110011001101110110011011',
'110110111011010110110101011100111010110111011010111100001',
'1100110111011011011011101101110',
'011001100010011101010101010101',
'0111010110011011011001110011010',
'0110110111011101101110110100011110011101010111000',
'0110110101101100101100111011011101',
'11001101101110001110011101101011010110',
'1011011101010101110110111011011011',
]
for line in cake:
for drop in range(0, 8):
cropped = line[drop:]
cropped = cropped[:len(cropped) / 8 * 8]
for i in range(0, len(cropped), 8):
char = chr(int(cropped[i:i+8], 2))
if char >= ' ':
print char,
else:
print '?',
print
print
These cakes are amazing! What on earth are they doing on a "Cake Wrecks" website?
"And I think the bottom tier is... Metropolis? Maybe?"
Looks more like the Hall of Justice. I used to watch the Super Friends cartoon show as a kid.
"Look! It's Epcot!"
This makes me wonder if Epcot center will look like the Deathstar after it grays with age.
"No clue. I see math and hearts."
Others here have already given the link to the comic strip that inspired this. You could read one of these as "What is the root of love?", another as "What is the identity of love?" and so on. Regardless, it seems that the underlying joke here is "our normal way of finding answers [using mathematical operations] doesn't work for us when we try to examine love."
"Is it... Zelda? Made of Lego?"
No, it's different Nintendo game characters (Link, Zelda, and the Super Mario Brothers mushroom) intentionally made to look like the old, lower-resolution (8-bit) video games. This is how they originally looked compared to today's standards.
"Portal! Jen and I are actually playing the co-op version now."
Hmm, I thought it was a reference to Logan's Run when I first saw it.
The math and hearts one is XKCD, I think.
Just in case no one told you yet, the one with the stick figures and the equations on it is actually a physics joke. =) it's really funny to math nerds.
Wow! That xkcd cake is the best wedding cake E.V.E.R. - bar none. My DH is a mathematician, and I am not joking you, when he and I first got together, I found a whole sheet of equations he once created to try to figure out why his ex-girlfriend dumped him. I love that man!
A few weeks late to the party, but the bottom tier in the Batman/Wonder Woman cake is definitely the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Justice_(comics)" rel="nofollow">Hall of Justice, first seen on Super Friends but later back-ported into the Justice League comics that the show was loosely based on (and the rather more-faithful Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons on Cartoon Network).
I just want to point out that the "math love" cake (xkcd) ris clearly a Naveregnide (Evan Edinger) (from YouTube) cake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHuZs7ar7I
Ariel up there is right. That is totally Union Terminal (aka The Cincinnati Museum Center)! I "eep"d when I saw it. :)
I wonder if the Mario cake had this for their first song??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBpQVhCMb8
It's called Mario Kart Love Song :)
This is three months after the post, but did you guys hear? The creator of XKCD and his fiancee are getting married!!!
Or rather, they got married :D
(sorry for spamming, next time I'll get my facts straight before I post)
The "EPCOT" Star Wars cake has the true mark of geek genius: they actually put 2 suns on Tatooine!
The robot Godzilla is MECHA-GODZILLA. Built to fight Godzilla off. forget how that one ends.... :(
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Shouldn't the portal cake be a pie???
Bottom tier of the batman cake is the "Hall of Justice"
These are awesome!!!I love them all!
The star wars wedding (cake) would have been a fun one to attend and be behind the camera! I am sure that was not the only star wars themed decor in the room. Love the cakes, thank you for sharing.
oh wow! I love these!