If there's one thing we can say about pastry, it's that it has shown great flexibility in incorporating special themes into its designs. From funny scenes to giant insects and human body parts, master pastry chefs make things with their ingredients that a normal person could hardly reproduce with a pencil. Today we're sharing a gallery dedicated to cake designs inspired by computing, video games, and the occasional bit of electronics. If you're planning to give a cake to a geek friend and need ideas, maybe this will help.
Personally, my birthday cakes were always football-themed (balls, fields, crests, etc.), and I imagine the same happened to many of our readers. But video games and computing "came in through the window" in the form of an Atari 2600 clone, and although I would have loved to have a cake shaped like a computer or a console, let's say I grew old. Fortunately, there are many people out there who have received that kind of cakes, and they didn't hesitate to share the designs on the web. Some are homemade, and others have a distinct professional profile; however, that doesn't change the fact that it would be a bit of a shame to stick the knife in...
A Gallery of Geek-Themed Cakes
