Andrew Breitkreutz loves BioWare's Mass Effect, and his talented cake-making wife loves him. So when he recently turned thirty years old, his wife pulled out all the stops and made something incredible.
In an email to Kotaku Australia, Breitkreutz explained that his birthday cake is raspberry and chocolate mud in flavor, topped with white chocolate and marshmallow fondant. But it's not the ingredients that make this cake so utterly amazing.
Fans of the game series will instantly recognize the face of Grunt, a tank-bred member of the Krogan race who debuted in Mass Effect 2. (Yes, that image you're staring at in awe really is a cake.) In the game, protagonist Commander Shepard finds Grunt during a mission, still in his tank, and is given the choice of leaving the massive, dangerous alien in stasis or awakening him and accepting the risks. If awakened, Grunt becomes a powerful member of the crew and one of the available NPCs that players can select to take on missions.
Grunt was instantly popular among fans for his hilariously aggressive personality and his relatable journey as an outsider to everyone — including his own Krogan people. He was a major character in the second game, but merely cameoed in the final chapter. Gamers who downloaded the Citadel DLC game pack, however, were treated to a welcome (and hysterical) return of Grunt, along with every other major character from the series.
Sadly, we have no details to share on how long it took Breitkreutz' wife to bake, build and sculpt this incredible culinary recreation of Grunt, but a photo from Kotaku shows that its size is smaller than you might think at first. Its miniature scale makes its lifelike details all the more impressive.
It seems like a shame to eat something so perfectly made, but we're sure Breitkreutz managed it somehow. Here's a collage of glimpses of the cake as it was being made, which the birthday boy posted to Imgur.
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