For the last three years or so, several friends and I have developed the hobby of making strange, fun, and silly cakes. This site is designed to showcase various of our efforts. They are listed in no particular order. This page is still under construction, so check back soon for more!

Rebecca and Jason's Wedding

@ Copyright Angela Disrud Photography

Kristin, Lydia, and Jessie made this cake for Rebecca and Jason's wedding. It was delicious, a white cake with an almond filling, but since the author of this page (David) was conferencing instead of cake-baking at the time this cake was constructed, he doesn't know much about it besides that.

A Cake of Science

David and Kristin designed, and Kristin and Lydia baked and constructed this delicious and informative cake for a party in Katy Börner's lab in Bloomington, Indiana. It's a replica of a map made by Katy and her colleagues, and is a quantitative visualization of the temporal and co-occurence structure of the appearance in PNAS articles of the "hottest" words of 1998-2001. If I'm reading it correctly, the lines connect terms which frequently co-occur, the color of the icing reflects the time that the term became highly frequent, and the size of each cake reflects the size of the frequency shift. You can see the original picture, and many other beautiful and interesting images of the scientific process, here.

The cakes have a standard buttercream icing, using 4 different colors. The cakes themselves were cut out with bowls and glasses from sheetcakes (the cake was from a mix, I believe)--there are over 25 individual cakes! The variety in cake height contributed to the full effect; it can be seen in the next image.

The Nashville Parthenon

The parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, with its concrete construction and full-size gilt gold and fiberglass Athena inside has long been one of my absolute favorite public spaces. It's simultenously awe-inspiring, truly beautiful, and phenomenally tacky. For my birthday in 2008, my cohorts decided to make me my very own parthenon--in cake! It was a very last-minute affair, but still came out very cute, and was made entirely with props they found around the house!

UFO Cake

Halloween is our prime cake-baking time. For the last two years, we've had a party with as its centerpiece a really silly cake. Here's a video of last year's cake. I'm not sure what else to say. I'm sorry? You should see what we have planned for next year?

This page is under construction! Please be patient!