Cakes

I have fun with cake. One cake that I made last month was for the dessert dash at a garden-themed fundraiser gala: it was a coconut cake, decorated with yellow buttercream, white fondant daisies, and green coconut grass.

While I think this was a great contribution, I think that people at a dessert dash have their hearts set on chocolate. I observed people grabbing very straightforward (I think boring) chocolate items over what I thought were much more fun, original non-chocolate items.

Another cake I made recently was to celebrate the retirement of Warren Buck, a wonderful physics gentleman who helped found UW Bothell. My cake was for the “family party” (just the physicists) and he requested chocolate. He used to be a particle theorist among other things, so I made a Standard Model cake: the design is an image that is basically the periodic table of quarks, with the “W” quark modified to be the university W. It was delicious and well received.