RAT Cake

This is just a quick post to show off the rat-shaped cake that Ana made. She recently acquired a new (enormous) cake decorating kit and had an excuse to try it out when I finished my PhD qualifying exam, which in this department used to be called the 'readiness assessment test' or RAT. It may have been trial instead of test, but something with a T at any rate. The official name is now just Readiness Assessment because they didn't like people calling it a RAT, but everybody still does.

I was asked to cut the head off just after being informed that I had passed and the multi-week process was over. Ana did hers last spring and may hold the record for earliest passed exam in the department, but I responded like an adult (with champagne) not with rodent cake. Ana has her own craft blog and talks about the creation of the cake here if you want to know more about the technical details. Anyway, here it is:

Prior to transport and incision

RAT cake with head cut off after the end of the exam