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'Pac-Man' Arcade Cake: The Ultimate Gift for a Geek Goof With a Sweet Tooth

by Caleb Johnson on February 9, 2010 at 06:04 PM

Thanks in part to some popular reality-TV shows, the boutique cake business has really taken off in recent years. Growing up, we were lucky to get a birthday cake with a few plastic soldiers or athletes standing in the thick frosting. But these days, people build edible replicas of everything from Hogwarts Castle to an old-school NES console.

So what would be the perfect confectionery consolation for all those disappointing birthdays? This 'Pac-Man' arcade cabinet cake from Seattle's Jet City Cakes would do the trick. Its level of detail really is amazing. There's a fake coin slot, a little red joystick, and a screen studded with little white dots and colorful ghouls -- both favorite eats of Pac-Man, himself. Frankly, our mouths are watering just looking at the picture.


But what we love most about this cake is that -- if you'll direct your attention to the banner at the cabinet's base -- it was created for a dad. Although we don't know how much the cake costs, we'd bet it goes for quite a few tokens. Somewhere, some aging nerd has Pac-Kids and a Ms. Pac-Man that love him dearly. [From: Jet City Cakes, via: Technabob]

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