2D
Introduction to Molecular Bonding
by Emily Chan · submitted Jul 1, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
The only reason I submitted this entry is as follows: the molecule of interest is not just any alcohol, but ethanol!
Anyway, it's a chocolate cake, filled with strawberries and vanilla whipped cream, frosted with rose-flavoured buttercream, and decorated with marshmallow fondant covered cake-ball atoms (hydrogen atoms are fondant only, the rest are cake), Pocky bonds, nutella/chocolate expressions/text, candy-wrapped marshmallow plastic cups, and caramel "beer splash". I also drew molecular structures on the side of the cake (corresponding vaguely to the fermentation of ethanol from glucose and metabolism of ethanol to acetyl-COA), although that's not shown in the primary picture. The cake took 9 hours to assemble, mainly because I've (clearly) never decorated a cake before.
Although it's probably possible to ferment this cake, I ate it instead.
Remark: the atomic colouring is a bit unconventional - my apologies to any chemists that may be reading!
Anyway, it's a chocolate cake, filled with strawberries and vanilla whipped cream, frosted with rose-flavoured buttercream, and decorated with marshmallow fondant covered cake-ball atoms (hydrogen atoms are fondant only, the rest are cake), Pocky bonds, nutella/chocolate expressions/text, candy-wrapped marshmallow plastic cups, and caramel "beer splash". I also drew molecular structures on the side of the cake (corresponding vaguely to the fermentation of ethanol from glucose and metabolism of ethanol to acetyl-COA), although that's not shown in the primary picture. The cake took 9 hours to assemble, mainly because I've (clearly) never decorated a cake before.
Although it's probably possible to ferment this cake, I ate it instead.
Remark: the atomic colouring is a bit unconventional - my apologies to any chemists that may be reading!
