This photo (http://nickwong.smugmug.com/photos/132206567-M.jpg) made the rounds at work a few weeks ago, and general consensus was that not only was this awesome, we needed to try it.
![bacon_cake_icon](http://michaelnoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/bacon_cake_icon.jpg)
So, we set out to make some bacon cakes and succeeded wildly (though not without a few hurdles along the way). At the weekly fooding, we ended up with two distinct designs.