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Self-Indulgent Birthday Minecraft Cake Post

By John Walker on October 28th, 2010 at 12:30 am.

I'm gonna eat ya little piggy.

Just to say, my girlfriend is best of all the girlfriends.

But I’m also convinced that there must be other game related cakes that people have had and, ideally, photographed. So post links below, and I’ll magic them into images in the comments. Thus we will win at the internet.

Unless no one does, and then I’ll look stupid.

NB: The cake was designed before the announcement of the new biomes. An update to this cake will be made available from November 1st.

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  1. 28/10/2010 at 00:32 Ignorant Texan says:

    Happy Birthday, Mr Walker!!

  2. 28/10/2010 at 00:33 Rinox says:

    Happy birthday and tasty biomes to you sir!

    Your girlfriend is made of awesome (and presumably, cake-baking magic).

  3. 28/10/2010 at 00:35 omicron says:

    Do you know, are there more girlfriends where you got yours? And how much do they cost?

    In all seriousness, that cake is awesome. You are a very fortunate man with a very tolerant gal. And if she plays, too? Icing on the cake (so to speak)

    • 28/10/2010 at 12:06 Temple to Tei says:

      Wait for Lewie on Saturday, he can always gets you a cheap deal. Usually on something you don’t know you want.

  4. 28/10/2010 at 00:36 Neosubu says:

    Happy birthday!
    And that is an EPIC win on your girlfriends part, let her know =)

  5. 28/10/2010 at 00:37 Alex Bakke says:

    Are those marshmallow tree-leaves? If so, marry this woman post-haste.

    (Happy Birthday)

    P.S. I have literally only received one birthday cake that was hand-made, and that was a giant Bourbon Cream.

  6. 28/10/2010 at 00:38 MuscleHorse says:

    Happy Birthday John John.

    My snap isn’t a cake but it’s girlfriend/birthday related. She put more effort into it than any stupid cake and so is better.

    PS, I’m Richard.

  7. 28/10/2010 at 00:40 Paul S. says:

    Bloody hell! That’s a deeply impressive cake.

  8. 28/10/2010 at 00:43 Daniel Klein says:

    Argh! Every time I have something relevant to post here, I feel like what I’m doing is awkwardly close to spamming. But still!

    We ran a contest around “cook something League of Legends related” a little while back and almost all of the entries were cakes. And DELICIOUS! I know because a crazy fan of ours traveled to Cologne from the UK just to deliver this cake to me:

    It was oh so delicious. And sugary.

    But all of these were awesome. And most of them were cakes:

    http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=2658262

  9. 28/10/2010 at 00:44 DoucheMullet says:

    Oh lord Jesus Christ, can we go one day without five minecraft posts.

  10. 28/10/2010 at 00:47 bob_d says:

    No one loves me enough to make me such a cake.

  11. 28/10/2010 at 00:48 Serenegoose says:

    My girlfriend once baked me a companion cake, but alas, no photographic evidence for it exists. But it was bigger than my head and had strawberry in it. :)

  12. 28/10/2010 at 00:50 Hmm-Hmm. says:

    Congratulations once more, John! That looks like a fine cake.

  13. 28/10/2010 at 00:54 Ricc says:

    Happy Birthday, Mr. Walker! :)

    *Insert something about digestion and Creepers here.*

  14. 28/10/2010 at 00:56 stahlwerk says:

    Happy Birthday, and mad congrats on a cake well boken… baken… baked. Anyway, it is of the art.

    Bak’d. Cakegasm? What a cake. Old men, running the world.

  15. 28/10/2010 at 00:56 MuscleHorse says:

    My comment with picture is awaiting moderation – I don’t believe this has happened to me before. Has something gone wrong? It’s been like that for a while :(

  16. 28/10/2010 at 01:04 Durkan says:

    I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE NOT MAKING CAKE UPDATES FAST ENOUGH SO I AM GOING TO STAMP ALL OVER YOUR CAKE SO YOU CANT ENJOY IT OR SHARE IT WITH ANYBODY INCLU…ding err …me…. damn

  17. 28/10/2010 at 01:07 Phydeaux says:

    I’m rather a fan of flight sims :-)

    This unexpectedly resulted in a tasty surprise:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/79165769@N00/5122082104/

  18. 28/10/2010 at 01:11 Fede says:

    Happy Birthday, John!

  19. 28/10/2010 at 01:15 Flobulon says:

    That is a most excellent cake.
    Hepty Turfday, Jihn!

  20. 28/10/2010 at 01:16 Sarkhan Lol says:

    Ugh, yet another example of growing RPS pro-cake bias. Everyone refresh your browsers over and over again until these fascist spin-doctors agree to our demands, let’s bring this journalistic dictatorship to its KNEES!

  21. 28/10/2010 at 01:19 perilisk says:

    Protip: Put a ring on it.

  22. 28/10/2010 at 01:20 Arathain says:

    A very happy birthday to you, Mr Walker. I am delighted it includes cake, and to have such a fine specimen is icing on the… hrm…

  23. 28/10/2010 at 01:26 Bluebreaker says:

    Is that edible? =P

  24. 28/10/2010 at 01:32 Web Cole says:

    Happy birthday John!

    Ok, so its not my cake, but this comments thread is looking a bit on the stingy side so far:

    I thought that was rather splendid :)

  25. 28/10/2010 at 01:42 Zerrick says:

    Happy birthday, Mr. Walker.
    And don’t dig too deep into that cake, you could lose your diamond fork.

  26. 28/10/2010 at 01:55 Hobbes says:

    Happy boifday Mr Walker!

  27. 28/10/2010 at 01:55 Maykael says:

    The happiest of birthdays, John! Hope you’ll enjoy that cake block by block. :D

  28. 28/10/2010 at 02:04 badvibration says:

    I love the candles being used as torches.

  29. 28/10/2010 at 02:11 Gabe McGrath says:

    Back in 1998, when I didn’t have a digital camera, nor reliable internet access, by partner (now wife) ordered me the most AWESOME birthday surprise.

    A giant ‘Player ship from Galaga’ chocolate mud cake.

    Alas, I am fail. I didn’t not get a photo.
    Fail Fail Fail.

    So John, please grab one of these images, post it here, and the hivemind can just imagine it rendered in heart-attack inducing chocolate mudcake.

  30. 28/10/2010 at 02:17 Shadram says:

    Happy Birthday!
    Nobody’s made me a fancy cake since I was 12. :( I’m the cake baker in my group of friends (a tradition I really wish I hadn’t started…) but none of them are really gamers, so I’ve not made anything game related. I did make a cat cake, though:
    http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7237/catcake.jpg
    It’s rubbish, but an artist I am not.

  31. 28/10/2010 at 02:17 El Stevo says:

    Oh lord Jesus Christ, can we go one year without it being John’s birthday.

  32. 28/10/2010 at 02:22 bleeters says:

    …are

    …are those little candle torches?

  33. 28/10/2010 at 02:25 Nick says:

    Happy Birthday John, and great cake.

  34. 28/10/2010 at 02:31 Hamstronomy says:

    What??

    No explosive creepers?

  35. 28/10/2010 at 02:33 Farsearcher says:

    Happy Birthday John!

    Save Quinns a slice with Iron in it

  36. 28/10/2010 at 02:33 Kevin says:

    My wife made a 1-up cake for a LAN party we had a few months ago.

    Key lime flavored! YUMMMMMM!

  37. 28/10/2010 at 02:43 DMJ says:

    Careful, there may be magma at the bottom.

    Magma is a funny word.

  38. 28/10/2010 at 03:20 Miranda says:

    There’s some cool gamer cakes on the Cake Wrecks blog. They usually make fun of poorly decorated cakes, but they have a weekly ‘Sunday Sweets’ column where they post the non-wrecky cakes.

    Nice Minecraft cake btw :)

    http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-sweets-when-gamers-marry.html
    http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-sweets-leaping-lego-lizards.html
    http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-sweets-when-geeks-marry.html
    http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/08/sunday-sweets-fun-wedding-cakes.html

  39. 28/10/2010 at 04:15 Xbolt says:

    Cake I made myself for my 18th birthday:

    Most unoriginal idea ever, but I was pretty pleased with it. (The other people at the party were too.)

  40. 28/10/2010 at 05:18 jaak says:

    lol i have to admit your GF has built an amazing cake… little squares are soooo difficult to make…. Did she give you a spade to eat it with since its all dirt?

  42. 28/10/2010 at 07:21 Tei says:

    My ex-girlfriend was a creeper.

  43. 28/10/2010 at 07:40 Bozzley says:

    My friend made me a companion cube cake a while back, but the photo of that was a casualty of the infamous “wiped the old hard drive before installing the new one” calamity that I don’t like to talk about. If she still has the photo of it, I’ll post it up later. Sniff.

  44. 28/10/2010 at 07:58 Nova says:

    Happy Birthday, John.

  45. 28/10/2010 at 08:00 Lambchops says:

    Happy birthday and enjoy the cake.

  46. 28/10/2010 at 08:05 Flaringo says:

    Cool cake, and happy birthday, John!

  47. 28/10/2010 at 08:33 strangeed says:

    awesome! happy birthday. Very jealous of the confectionery abilities on display.

  48. 28/10/2010 at 08:44 frags says:

    Wow, happy birthday Mr. Walker.

  49. 28/10/2010 at 09:02 logizomechanophobe says:

    No self-indulgent, yet thematically related pics to post from me, however I do want to wish you a happy birthday and me a happy birthday for today is our day, John Walker! Cheers!

  50. 28/10/2010 at 09:30 Brumisator says:

    I want to steal Mr. Walker’s girlfriend for myself.

    But that’d be rude, especially on his birthday. consider this my present to you, J.W Congrats!

  51. 28/10/2010 at 09:32 wvanh says:

    Here’s wishing you a happy birthday Mr. Walker. Here also, is a picture of a not-birthday-related Greed Corp. theme cake made specially for the launch of, well, Greed Corp. obviously. That’s right, a hex strategy cake!

  52. 28/10/2010 at 09:41 Ur-Quan says:

    The cake is a lie.

  53. 28/10/2010 at 09:43 Matthew says:

    Happy birthday man. All the best.

  54. 28/10/2010 at 09:51 KingCathcart says:

    Happy Birthday John.

    Pus: Oooh, look at all the pretty pictures in the comments thread!

  55. 28/10/2010 at 10:10 Colthor says:

    That’s a brilliant cake :)

    Merry Birthday, John!

  56. 28/10/2010 at 10:20 Dottyboi says:

    Sure, but does she [sing like an angel?]

    Happy birthday John! :)

  57. 28/10/2010 at 10:27 JonWood says:

    Finally, the chance to (try to) win a comment thread.

    This is my wedding cake:

  58. 28/10/2010 at 10:46 Rostov says:

    My then girlfriend made me this little thing last year!

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  59. 28/10/2010 at 10:58 Davie says:

    A thing of beauty.

  60. 28/10/2010 at 11:01 Robert says:

    Happy Walker’s day!

  61. 28/10/2010 at 11:15 Navagon says:

    I would wish you a happy birthday, but with a girlfriend that awesome happiness is assured. Have a good one, mate.

  62. 28/10/2010 at 11:17 malexmave says:

    Happy Birthday, and awesome cake. Now you just need to start trolling your girlfriend because the update is too slow, and you have an acurate impression of the MineCraft-Forums.

    Oh, and a spawner tool to spawn torches on top of the cake ;-)

  63. 28/10/2010 at 11:19 golden_worm says:

    Joss Ackland’s spunky backpack.

  64. 28/10/2010 at 11:24 JurassicPork says:

    Happy Birthday, Mr. Walker

  65. 28/10/2010 at 12:28 Gunnar says:

    Happy Birthday to you, sir!

    Plus, awesome cake :)

  66. 28/10/2010 at 13:47 digitdaily says:

    Groom’s cake :D

  67. 28/10/2010 at 14:08 Durns says:

    I’m so very happy that you’ve found someone so awesome Mr Walker – congrats!

  68. 28/10/2010 at 14:59 MJS says:

    I had a buggy boy birthday cake years and years ago, to me it was and always will be the best birthday cake ever. I’ll go see if I can find a photo to scan.

  70. 28/10/2010 at 15:12 BobbleHat says:

    Only semi-related, and slightly overshadowed by the other cakes in this thread, but the missus is still awesome for doing this, putting up with my geekiness and my bi-weekly gaming nights.

  71. 28/10/2010 at 15:16 BobbleHat says:

    Hmm. My awesome cake picture seems to have gotten lost/eaten. Also Happy Buffday John.

  72. 28/10/2010 at 15:20 jonfitt says:

    Happy Birthday John. Marry that girl.

  73. 28/10/2010 at 15:29 Nallen says:

    I don’t know. Where do you find this these women. Lucky beggars.

  74. 28/10/2010 at 16:06 Fumarole says:

    This was a triumph!

  75. 28/10/2010 at 16:38 Scatterbrainpaul says:

    I’d feel a bit short changed with that cake. I know blah, time, blah, effort, blah. But the cake itself is a bit flat, not much actual cake

  76. 28/10/2010 at 17:14 Gerbick says:

    Happy Birthday, Mr J Walker. Significant others who bake masterpieces are a real find, well played!

    And how about a Mario Galaxy cake, with extras:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMHPJHIglE

  77. 28/10/2010 at 18:13 tourgis says:

    My first ever post here is to say:

    Happy Birthday John

  78. 28/10/2010 at 18:47 LionsPhil says:

    Best article on RPS this month.

    Even if RPS continues to insist I am not a human.

  79. 28/10/2010 at 22:37 Doches says:

    A glorious birthday, indeed. One of mine, from (several) years ago:

    Weighted Companion Cake

  80. 28/10/2010 at 22:48 Hendar23 says:

    I need a constant Minecraft newsfeed. I propose that RPS now dedicate itself entirely to simply talking about Minecraft.

    I find myself looking forward to Halloween for the first time since childhood.

  81. 29/10/2010 at 17:27 DieselVan says:

    Some cakes celebrating games we made…

    Burn Zombie Burn! Cake

    Top Gun Cake

    South Park Cake

  82. 02/11/2010 at 07:10 Wedding Dresses In Barrie says:

    That’s really awesome.. I hope I can see more of this..I am looking forward for your next post..

  83. 29/11/2010 at 11:25 masonluraa says:

    Fantastic birthday cake design.

    Maui Weddings

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