reason 4632 why I am glad to be in academia...

...there is no one I work with who thinks a cake like this would be a good idea.

Well, a "good" idea in the non-ironic sense any how.

Of course, some years back, when a student in the 'remedial' class did a model of the solar system using cakes, and offered them to her class and then to the department as a snack afterward, we did have a lot of fun with the fact that the "Uranus" cake was the one that seemed to have the most cake LEFT from it...