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As many of us here at Slashfood know geeks love to play with their food. And what geek doesn't love computers? Here's a birthday cake that combines the love of computers with that playful approach to food. It's a sugar-laden cartoony rendition of a motherboard. That Intel chip is an After Eight chocolate mint, and you can see that the gal who created this cake for her boyfriend also made liberal use of vanilla and chocolate wafer cookies. The circular gold things are Rolos. I haven't had one of them in years. Seeing the gold-foil wrapped treats has me wanting to run out and buy a pack.

I stumbled upon this sweet rendition of a motherboard on Geekcake, an entire site that's devoted to geeky cakes. What are some of the other cakes geeks are making you ask? Naturally, Star Wars is a common theme. There's a cool-looking Jabba-The-Hut wedding cake. And since nerds worship role-playing games, there's a cake fashioned after a 20-sided die. In high-school I played my fair share of D&D. But my favorite cake on the site is a Rubik's Cube cake. I'm guessing that's its not a fully functional Rubik's Cube. I'll bet it tastes good though.

[via Geekcake]

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For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. The boxes can range from austere lacquered trays to multi-tiered Hello Kitty confections of neon pink plastic. The meals themselves are anything from rice and leftovers to elaborate themed affairs of Pikachu-shaped dumplings with sesame seed eyes and carved radish trees. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Today's entry, by Vingt Deux, takes the bento to delightfully geeky heights with a re-creation of the scorched sand and double suns of planet Tatooine in Star Wars. The sky is purple cabbage and the sand is pita and hummus, hiding a nutritious pile of cherry tomatoes underneath. Our Jawa wears a robe of Philly steak Tofurkey, with nori ammo belt and hands, and a black rice face with carrot cube eyes. Utinni!

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Geeks have a lot of street cred these days. It's their moment, you could say. They own cool grown-up toys and wear hot glasses and everyone wants to befriend them or marry them or something. And now, geeks even have their own culinary genre: geek food.

According to Urban Dictionary, geek food is considered high-calorie, often caffeinated, easy-to-make food that works with the lifestyles of techies and the like (check out this geek food pyramid). For those looking to try out some geek recipes, this Geek Food Podcast (which is sadly no longer posting) teaches everything from Donkey Kong bars to Wookies (the perfect snack for watching Star Wars). Geek food is by no means limited to sweets and snacks, though, or even to American dishes. This article on Geek Delicacies reports that sushi and various forms of take-out are absolutely within the genre.

Additionally self-proclaimed geek boyfriend informs me that pizza is another classic geek food, and that in the book Microserfs (about computer programmers), a character only eats flat foods like pizza and cheese for weeks, as these are the only foods that his friends can slip beneath his door while he works. Okay geeks, I know you are out there. It's your turn: What do you eat?

Have I mentioned how much of a geek I am? Well, just in case I haven't, now you know. I just love it when two of my passions cross over each other, especially when the results are this great!

Check out the post on Gizmodo for the whole story, but this is a wedding cake for, you guessed it, a Star Wars wedding. It's hard to tell how much of it is edible, exactly, but some of the details are amazing. The chef who made this cake used camera lens with a blue bulb behind it for R2's sensor for added realism. Have you ever seen a geek-y cake this awesome? I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks to an Instructable I now remember why and how Han Solo was encased in carbonite. I should also presumably know how to make a dark chocolate bar that resembles the smuggler after Jabba the Hutt encased him in carbonite. I say should because I'm not sure whether I'm handy enough to make the mold.

That said, Chris Koehne provides three relatively simple steps. The first is creating the mold itself using food-grade silicone, the second is melting and pouring the chocolate and obviously the last is removing it from the mold. Koehne made the chocolate bar as a gift for his brother. He's yet to announce any plans to make a chocolate Jabba the Hutt.
[via Neatorama]