This week marks Geek Girl Pen Pal’s thirteenth birthday, wow! We’ve been pairing pen pals since 2013 and have matched over 40,000 folks since then based on their top 5 “geek loves” aka the things they geek out about! Hobbies, fandoms, interests and more are all things to be nerdy about. And in honor of our birthday and our love of all things fandom, here are our Top 5 Fictional Cakes!

Chocolate Cake from Mathilda

Bruce looks out over a giant chocolate cake

There is a famous scene in the book (and film adaptation!) Matilda where the bullying principal, Miss Trunchbull, forces one of the kids to eat an entire chocolate cake as punishment. The kid in question, Bruce, succeeds and the other kids are beyond delighted. It’s a memorable scene and a memorable cake!

Eat Me Tea Cakes from Alice in Wonderland

animated Alice reaches down to open a box of tiny tea cakes that all have "eat me" written in frosting

There are many iconic moments in Alice in Wonderland though not all of them make it from the original book into the various adaptations — but one that almost always appears is Alice’s size-shifting experience with the “Drink Me” and “Eat Me” treats. The “Eat Me” cakes are tiny tea cakes or Petit Fours and when she tastes one, she quickly grows to an enormous size.

Aurora’s Birthday Cake

Fairy Fauna places candles onto a lopsided cake as they slide off again

In the animated film Sleeping Beauty, princess Aurora is raised in a cottage in the forest by three doting (but a bit silly) fairies. On her 16th birthday, the fairies bake a cake that is both as magical and sweet as she is.

Singing in the Rain‘s Cake Full of Dancers

a 1920s dancer in all pink bursts out of a giant pink cake

Okay, so this one isn’t a real cake, but the moment in Singing in the Rain when Kathy Seldon pops out of a cake at the after party for Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont’s latest picture is classic. She has just had a run-in with Don and given him a hard time for not being a “real” actor while insisting stage acting is superior, only to reveal that her acting day-job is as a dancer-for-hire. Honestly, it’s a pretty relatable Hollywood story.

Bilbo’s Seed Cakes

Bilbo looks stressed but is going along with things

Though often skipped in film, in The Hobbit when Bilbo is first surprised by 13 dwarves turning up on his doorstep for tea, he goes to the pantry and pulls out all the stops, including his favorite seed cakes. While he may be annoyed at the impertinence, he is also an excellent host and rises to this occasion (and many more to follow!) with aplomb!