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38 Nerdy Wedding Cakes You'll Love

Game of Thrones wedding cake.

Game of Thrones wedding cake.

Nerdy Wedding Cakes

What happens when a nerdy guy and a geeky girl get married? Well, they nerd up their wedding with a themed wedding cake!

Whether the couple shares a passion for computer science, video games, Star Wars, Star Trek, or role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, incorporating a nerdy theme in a wedding cake is obviously a blast!

Of course, nerds have birthdays, too. In fact, there is probably a higher chance that you'll be looking at nerdy cakes for a birthday than at a wedding. (Okay, I admit, that wasn't nice.) But hey, you should have more birthdays in your life than weddings, right?

This is a collection of some of the geekiest cakes that have ever been made. The cakes span a number of nerdy niches.

Some of these cakes are really creative, and some just make you wonder, "Why?" Either way, these cakes are a nerd's dream come true. I just hope no one is dressed as an Ewok or as Darth Vader at any of these parties!

A tardis wedding cake is perfect for fans of Dr. Who!

A tardis wedding cake is perfect for fans of Dr. Who!

This cake is pulled right from the XKCD comic: "Useless." While this particular comic does not contain XKCD stick figures, this cake makes wonderful use of XKCD figures to create a perfect cake topper. Pretty awesome, if you ask me!

This cake is pulled right from the XKCD comic: "Useless." While this particular comic does not contain XKCD stick figures, this cake makes wonderful use of XKCD figures to create a perfect cake topper. Pretty awesome, if you ask me!

Scrabble wedding cake

Scrabble wedding cake

Scrabble fans will love this sheet cake designed to look just like a Scrabble game board. The wording appears to contain the date of the wedding, the name Charlie (perhaps the groom?), and something about sharing coffee at Starbucks.

This cake is a really creative way to convey a message while making adding a lot of fun into the mix! I'd like to see someone do this with Boggle!

Angry Birds cake

Angry Birds cake

This Angry Birds cake is just plain awesome! The cake is beautifully designed and everything looks 100% perfect. It's not like some of those Mickey Mouse cakes that you see where Mickey looks creepy and has a weirdly shaped head. You've gotta' love this one!

AT-AT Star Wars cake

AT-AT Star Wars cake

An AT-AT wedding cake, complete with matching Ewok cupcakes, is a dream come true for anyone who is a Star Wars fan!

Rubik's Cube cake

Rubik's Cube cake

A Rubik's Cube cake is perfect for any puzzle-loving geek! The colors on the cube are perfect. I'm sort of wondering if the colors on the cake are in an order that would allow it to be solved if it were a real cube. Nobody likes a sticker-peeler!

Katamari damacy cake

Katamari damacy cake

This Katamari cake is amazing! I would be tempted to design it in such a way that there was something stuck to it, but would probably go overboard! Pretty good idea to keep it simple so people know right away that it's from Katamari and not just a ball made up of random things!

Star Wars Hoth cake

Star Wars Hoth cake

Wow, part of me kind of hopes that this wasn't actually used for a wedding. While it's a cool idea to have a cake that features Luke Skywalker keeping warm in the guts of a dead Tauntaun, it's kind of morbid and really just kind of gross. Tons of points for creativity, though!

Circuit board cake

Circuit board cake

Awesome usage of wafer cookies and Rolos to create an Intel motherboard cake. It really just doesn't get much nerdier than this!

Love it! A wedding cake for programmers.

Love it! A wedding cake for programmers.

Okay, maybe it does get nerdier than the motherboard cake! This pseudo-code cake is absolutely fantastic and the equally nerdy cupcakes on the lower tiers are perfect. Whoever designed this cake deserves the Turing Award!

Portal wedding cake

Portal wedding cake

I'm not sure what's with the anime figurines in the front, but a companion cube wedding cake from Portal?! Awesome! I would LOVE to have this cake! I would feel so guilty about eating it, though. Heck, I'd feel guilty putting the cake in the oven—how could you subject a companion cube to such heat?!

Super Mario wedding cake

Super Mario wedding cake

This Mario wedding cake is pretty elaborate! You can tell a lot of effort was put into the design of the cake. I'm not sure which tier I like the best!

This is an awesome cake for gamers.

This is an awesome cake for gamers.

Gamer geeks? This couple definitely looks like they own at least *ahem* a few game systems. Miniature fondant game controllers add a fun touch to this wedding cake! I think I love the video game-themed cakes the best.

Pixelated Mario cupcake = really creative idea

Pixelated Mario cupcake = really creative idea

All these cupcakes are put together from the pixelated Mario character (old-school NES stuff.) Simply genius! The one downfall to this style is that latecomers to the party will wonder what the design is supposed to be (as many cupcakes will already have been consumed.) Still fantastic and perfect for any gamer couple.

Star Trek cake

Star Trek cake

This is an awesome cake! The only thing nerdier than a Star Trek cake is the design of said cake. I'm talking about getting ship schematics here, studying what's on the panels, etc. I'd like to see a Next Generation version!

Android wedding cake

Android wedding cake

What happens when an Android fanboy meets an Android fangirl? This cake. Hilarious, beautiful, amazing, totally nerdy, and romantic all in one.

AT-AT Walker cake

AT-AT Walker cake

This is one of my personal favorites. This Star Wars Imperial AT-AT Walker cake reminds me of playing Shadows of the Empire on the N64 (and battling with the horrible camera angle change when you have to knock these guys down.) This cake is absolutely perfectly done. The designer is a really good artist, everything is spot on.

Super Mario wedding cake

Super Mario wedding cake

This cake is a rendition of the first level of NES Super Mario Brothers. If you look closely at the bottom tier, you can see Goombas . . . Ah, love is not without obstacles.

I really love this Nintendo (NES) cake!

I really love this Nintendo (NES) cake!

It's an NES! It'd be awesome if you could peel up some of the fondant to reveal where you insert the cartridge. However, you probably get a lot of people blowing into the cake . . . and that would be no good.

Star Wars Jabba cake

Star Wars Jabba cake

This cake looks disgusting, I'll be honest. I suppose there's a reason for that. It appears this Jabba the Hutt cake is meant for someone's 30th birthday. The only thing more disgusting than going over the hill is Jabba. Hopefully, the cake tasted good.

iPhone apps cupcakes = so cute!

iPhone apps cupcakes = so cute!

These iPhone apps mini cupcakes are adorable. It took me a bit to figure out what the blue squiggle one on the left is supposed to be. (I had to look at my phone. It's the stocks app.)

Bejeweled cake

Bejeweled cake

If you're addicted to Bejeweled or have at least played it (and suffered short-term addiction) then you'll appreciate this cake. I can't stop looking for matches on this one.

QR code cake

QR code cake

A QR-code cake is a great way to get your message across. This QR cake takes you to the Flickr page of the artist who made this cake. Try it out!

Goomba Mario Bros cake

Goomba Mario Bros cake

The Goomba on this Mario cake is perfect and actually kind of adorable. I love this cake. Does anyone else think the Goomba is cute? I'd like to have one for an evil pet.

Firefox cake

Firefox cake

This Mozilla cake is a really beautiful fondant design. I can imagine it would be awkward to cut and eat (it's essentially a giant ball of cake with probably a thin layer of fondant.) Really cool, nevertheless!

R2-D2 cake

R2-D2 cake

Star Wars fans are sure to love this R2-D2 cake. I'd feel guilty cutting into this one. It would be that kind of cake I would keep in my kitchen for a really long time and never eat because of inanimate object attachment. Then the frosting would get really hard and old. A friend would probably have to toss it out for me. It'd be something like out of Castaway. Okay, not really, but it is an awesome cake.

iPhone cake

iPhone cake

This is another great iPhone cake, but instead of just little apps, it's the entire iPhone. I love it! One question, though. What kind of jerk is texting at 6 AM?

Lord of the Rings cake

Lord of the Rings cake

One ring to rule them all. Now that's kind of a dark sentiment for a wedding, but hilarious and awesome too. I wonder how they got this cake to be so shiny. "Shiny" is kind of hard to do, from what I understand, when it comes to cake decorating (unless it's inedible). Seriously great cake!

Lord of the Rings cake

Lord of the Rings cake

Another beautiful Lord of the Rings Cake. This one is a genius way to incorporate an LOTR theme into a tiered cake.

eBay cake

eBay cake

This is more than likely not a birthday or wedding cake (unless you're an obsessed power seller), but I had to include this cake because of its general awesomeness. This eBay cake and matching cupcakes look really tasty!

Zelda Windwaker cake

Zelda Windwaker cake

This cake featuring Link and Tetra from Gamecube's Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is absolutely beautifully sculpted. It's seriously better than in-game. Real life has much better graphics than Nintendo.

Gingerbread motherboard

Gingerbread motherboard

This motherboard isn't really a cake, it's more of a gingerbread um . . . non-house. It's so awesome, though. The fan alone is stellar. It's probably better than the fan in my computer. If someone made this for me, I probably wouldn't have the heart to eat it.

Magic: The Gathering cake

Magic: The Gathering cake

This Magic the Gathering deck cake would be perfect for a birthday. It gives me bad memories of rage quitting after losing against an unfairly made deck (printed cards) full of squirrels.

Apple cake

Apple cake

I love this Apple logo birthday cake, especially since the logo looks like it's made from that kind of clear frosting they use sometimes on kids' birthday cakes . . . also known as "the good frosting."

World of Warcraft (Orgrimmar auction house) cake

World of Warcraft (Orgrimmar auction house) cake

Uber nerds from the horde side in World of Warcraft will love this Orgrimmar auction house cake. I spent many an hour in this auction house, peddling my wares before switching to the alliance side.

The fondant on these Pac-Man cupcakes is perfect. If you're looking to turn these cupcakes into something a little more suited for couples adding Ms. Pac-Man will definitely do the trick!

The fondant on these Pac-Man cupcakes is perfect. If you're looking to turn these cupcakes into something a little more suited for couples adding Ms. Pac-Man will definitely do the trick!

Dalek wedding cake

Dalek wedding cake