Should have created a savory pork pie.

I don't know what it is about Dickens. My favorite book of his changes as I grow older. As a youngster I loved the Christmas books, of course, and Nicholas Nickleby. Several years ago it was Martin Chuzzlewit. Then it was Bleak House. Now I adore Little Dorrit. Does anyone else suffer from this fickleness?

Finally, an excuse to eat wedding cake without having a wedding. Also, an excuse not to have a wedding.

My birthday is on Friday. Who's making this cake for me?!

This cake is brilliant. The disqualification is proof, as if any more were needed, that foodies are idiots.

Love Great Expectations!

@5 agreed. There was probably more thought put into this cake than any of the others. It's just genius.

That rat looks delicious!

Aw. It reminds me that I wanted to have a wedding cake with fondant robins pulling gummi worms out the frosting. My husband wouldn't allow it. Nor would he have "Life in The Fast Lane," rendered as an earnest folk song for the recessional. Good husband, though. *sigh*

Those cake contest organizers don't know greatness when they see it.