Aaron “APOC” Kaufman, EA’s Command & Conquer Community Manager sends in this fruity cake celebrating all things Nod.

A very special EA friend of mine who works within EA, which for now will go unnamed, had a very special party in his name in which someone made him this great cake! I may not be a devout follower of The Brotherhood, but seriously…this takes the cake.

Whoever Aaron’s mystery friend’s benefactor is should stand warned - using fruit to sweeten a cake can incur sugar Cane’s Wrath. Yeah, I said it, and I’m not proud.

Michael “Fahey” Got His Last Name And Nickname Mixed Up 

Women can be sneaky, and wives all the more so. Chuck Miller’s wife led him to believe that he wouldn’t have a cake for his birthday, but thankfully she lied. The next morning, Chuck was greeted by this black beauty, representing the Shaman class in World of Warcraft, who have entirely too much to worry about during a fight and should probably just reroll rogues.

This black cake and black icing has the extra added effect of making your mouth look like Tia Dalma’s from Pirates of the Caribbean. That was a big hit with the kids.

Mmmm, nothing like a mouthfull of inky blackness to celebrate another year of life! Thanks for sharing, Chuck!

- Michael “Rogues Do It From Behind” Fahey

Here’s a nifty concept in Game Cakes that we haven’t run across too often. By itself, simply a delicious looking cake, but add in some nifty photoshoppery and it becomes a homage to Valve’s Portal. This is an entirely new type of game cake, utilizing technology to place an ordinary looking cake into a video game situation. I like it. Click on the picture for a bigger view of this masterpiece. Thanks to Aeon and his “non-cubed companion” Mark for lending a hand, so to speak.

-Michael “I Should Be Asleep Right Now” Fahey

It’s a horrible day in the history of video game cakes! Back at GDC 07 when I first approached Crecente about my idea for an all video game cake website, he told me that it was a terrible concept, and that it was destined to become a giant pile of s***. Now, a year and a month later, GameCakes.com reluctantly becomes an enslaved member of the sadistic Kotaku family. I’m so depressed! I never thought when I first started the website that things would plummet into the toilet like they did.

From here on out, GameCakes’ unique coverage of all things interactively epicurious well be watered down by Kotaku’s shallow, out of date coverage of the video game cake scene, backed by the universal hatred of the industry and trademark d*** and fart jokes.

Despair, for dark age of gaming cakes is forced upon us!

Hooray! Kotaku Purchases GameCakes.Com [Kotaku]

Michael “Probably should have said April Fool’s earlier” Fahey 

Over at Heroine Sheik, there’s a game cake challenge going on. If 100 or more people fill out this super easy survey (what do you like on the site, etc.?), yours truly has promised to bake, photograph, and release upon the internets one of the following ridiculously inappropriate game cakes–all in the spirit of cake-y love, of course:

-A Zelda upskirt cake. After those Brawl action shots, who could resist? Can’t you just see the pink icing panties?
-Chun-Li cake, complete with thunder thighs and other deliciously well-endowed bits.
-Link in drag cake. If beautiful women can be Link, Link can surely be a beautiful woman.
-Hello Kitty lesbian cookies. Who knew cookies had sexual orientation? The excellent absurdity of this one speaks for itself.
-Halo tea-bagging cake. Nothing says yummy like shoving your crotch in the face of your fallen foes.

What are you doing still reading this post? In the name of all that is good and cake-y, go forth, take that survey, and cast your vote!

-Bonnie “the weirder the better” Ruberg

This so-called Falcon cake, made by a Smash Bros. Brawl fan and her friends to kick off a Brawl party, looks pretty good, but on closer inspection appears to be cheating. Sure, a game cake lover can appreciate the careful skill it would actually take to render an entire Brawl level in food products. But still, paper print-outs? M&Ms? At least give us a little candy pokéball to throw triumphantly at our enemies!

-Bonnie “Okay, it’s a lot cooler than anything I could make” Ruberg.

Ever played Dance Dance Revolution so long you see arrows when you close your eyes to go to sleep at night? This is what this is like, except in cake form. It’s also the pinkest DDR arrow I’ve ever seen. Then again, it’s probably also the most delicious.

-Bonnie “I’m not addicted to DDR I just can’t stop dancing” Ruberg

Mmmmm, trans-spatial companion cube cake. This is the birthday cake of Bethesda’s Fred Zeleny, who’s mother - a professional artist - has been making him gingerbread birthday cakes since he was a wee lad of five years. As a HUGE fan of gingerbread, I am willing to work out a trade with Fred. My mother is pretty great, and she makes a mean baked bean, sausage and apple casserole that tastes at least 40 times better than it sounds. So glad my mother doesn’t read this blog.

Michael Fahey would not actually trade his mother for anything less than your Pokemans.

What’s even more tasty than a Mario birthday cake made with three with layers of chocolate, funfetti, and red velvet cake? That same Mario cake coated in seven pounds–that’s right, seven pounds–of cream cheese icing. Apparently the cake was such a delicious success the creator only had time to snap a few cell phone pictures before it got gobbled up. But could the party guests see their reflections in the cake’s shiny, shiny surface while they were eating it?

-Bonnie “I’m not high I just really like shiny things” Ruberg.

Charles Hamwey sends us this Sonic cake, cooked up on a challenge with his brother. Something about its sketchy quality makes it particularly yummy-looking–though all that blue icing on Sonic’s head surely turned Charles’ tongue blue for weeks. Even the Sonic dreadlocks would be enough to stain you indefinitely. At least Sonic looks happy about it.

-Bonnie “No, I didn’t eat the cake while you weren’t looking, my tongue just happens to be blue” Ruberg.