Engadget's birthday cake winners!

You guys are the best. Seriously, we mean it. Last week we put up a contest offering up an Alienware Area-51 3550 for the best Engadget birthday cake you could bake for our 2nd birthday. What we got back was about 150 cakes, some of which were so astounding we didn't even know how to react. We had a long weekend judging all these cakes, but we've got our winners, as well as a bunch of runners up we had to commend with an Engadget t-shirt. Big thanks to everyone who entered, and don't worry, we've got more Engadget birthday cake galleries on their way.

Click on to view the winners' gallery!

Grand Prize Winner!
Alienware Area-51 3550, courtesy of Intel and Alienware

Kirk Sutherland - working Treo 650 cake

Dude completely freaking blew us away with his functional 1:6 scale Treo 650 cake. Kirk, you're a freaking madman, and this is easily the best birthday present anyone's ever given us. We thought the competition was a lock until you came along and, well, took the cake. We tip our hats to you sir.

Watch the video of the cake in action!

Second place!
Squeezebox Wireless

David & Barbara G - Aibo

This was easily the most technically astounding cake we saw. The difficult shapes and attention to detail paid to Aibo is absolutely incredible. Hope it tastes as good as it looks!

Runners up (in no particular order)

Chyun G - Alienware PC

If we had a third place prize, it would have easily gone to Chyun for her Alienware PC. This cake is astoundingly well made, and we're really sorry we couldn't take a taste.

Paul G  - Sony Ericsson W600i Walkman phone

Jake & Katie - Robocakien

Nick & Jess - Atari 2600

Scott N - Mac mini cake

Dan and Holly - Sony Betamax

Ryan and Denise B - Alienware PC

Robert H - Engadget roll cake

Anthony and Candice - Alienware PC

Sean G -Stefan Eriksson's Enzo crash

Brandon C - Fake iPod video (the video that debunks is amazing!)

Colin B - CSquid Labs cake made with a 45 Watt CO2 CNC laser cutting system

Kurosh - Alienware PC

Arash M - HTC Wizard

kram12667 - Nikon D70

[Ignacio Posted Mar 17th 2006 3:12AM]

LOL - the Enzo crash!!!! :-D :-D :-D

The Engadget roll cake finished pict looks nice too.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2006 5:08AM]

The winner was definatly cool and deserved to win. However I was very impressed by the Alien Ware computer that Ryan and Denise B did. Did anyone look at the back pane on this? At first I thought they had pulled one off of a case and just put it in place... but it is frosting. Very very detailed and very hard to be that precise in frosting.

Also, regarding all these mentions about the car crash. I don't know the refrence. Can someone explain or point me in the right direction? Regards, skonofvulcan at hotmail dot com.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2006 8:41AM]

The Enzo wreck has been covered here and on Joystiq, but Wrecked Exotics has the best information:

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/special/enzo/

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2006 1:17PM]

Here you go Maurice. Stefan was the guy behind the Gizmondo; this is his story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/16/national/main1409832.shtml

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2006 6:13PM]

Wow ... and double wow. So many great entries but Kirk is a deserving winner. Nice job one and all ... and Happy Birthday Engadget. Keep up the fantastic work.

Everywhere I turn, someone says ... "Engadget did a great job of covering this or that." You're leaving an impression in technology circles.

[Itguy Posted Mar 19th 2006 11:25AM]

That enzo cake is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Excellent work!

These cakes are amazing.

[mikerm Posted Mar 19th 2006 2:41PM]

wow, you guys are all very talented! Great work! I could use a slice of cake now, lol.

Extra points to those curves and shapes, I've tried shaping a cake, it didn't turn out to well.

[(Unverified) Posted May 25th 2006 12:09AM]

ooooo ooooooooooo! I want an iCake. I can listen to my music and nevergo hungry.

[lulianping Posted Dec 2nd 2009 9:39PM]

I am hungry~
http://www.laptopbatteryclub.com/

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 4th 2007 5:52AM]

If you want other photo cakes please visit this site:

http://www.ricettextorte.com/foto.htm

for apple cakes
http://www.ricettextorte.com/album/apple/apple_logo.html

Italian cakes
http://www.ricettextorte.com/pagine/english%20cakes.html

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2007 2:48PM]

Most Awesome Waste of Time I Have EVER SEEN!

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2007 3:21PM]

I am WOWED and IMPRESSED I cannot believe the AWESOME response to this contest! so much imagination and creativity here! :) UNBELIEVABLE and absolutely the BEST I have ever seen! thanks for sharing the pics, videos and responses, TRUE ENTERTAINMENT! LOVE THEM ALL!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2007 6:12AM]

Theodoros Plakadopoulos has signed up already. Yall might know him better as TPlay. He played basketball for 2 years over at UTEP.