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We made this one as a rather dubious thank-you to the lab techs for organising our practical exam (it was dubious on two counts - no-one in their right mind says thank you for an exam, and an inedible cake is not the most effective of thank yous for anything).  Organising a practical exam is much harder work than taking one (the amount of whingeing done in each case is vastly disproportionate) and they did a fantastic job, so we felt they deserved some sort of commemorative cake, and here it is - it's a squished-looking character in a lab-coat, surrounded by a plethora of chemical paraphernalia which, unfortunately, you can't see.  But (take our word for it) there's a test-tube rack, a retort stand (complete with white tile for those colourful titrations), a pipette-filler, a Bunsen burner, a polystyrene cup (for enthalpy changes - what else?) and all manner of other sugary creations there, and they were almost convincing at the time (honest) - even the exam paper itself.  We did have the idea of making glassware out of melted and resolidified sugar, but when Annabel took the liquified sugar out of the microwave the bottom of the container had undergone a similar phase change and we ended up with a brown sticky goo all over most of the kitchen's surfaces, so that was another idea for the culinary scrapheap.  Sad, really...