Cake of a nerdy, geeky, fantasy or sci-fi leaning are always a favourite of ours here at Stacked Cakes. Previously we have made a Dalek and the Tardis from Dr Who, R2D2 from Starwars, Teal'c and Stargate from Stargate SG1, the sorting hat from Harry Potter, a Kindle e-reader from Amazon and a Nintendo Entertainment System.

Last week's Mass Effect 2 Normandy SR2 cake was another cake in this fine tradition. The spaceship was quite a challenging shape with drooping wings and long thin body, but in the end these helped add to the "floating in mid air effect" of the cake.

Completed Normandy SR2 cake

Read on for some more details and photos of it's construction.

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So we had a very exciting week last week here at Stacked Cakes. We received a phone call the previous week from Channel 7's Prime Possums Saturday Club. They were interested in filming a segment and demonstration on kids cakes! Well of course we wanted to be involved with such a great kids show. So we arranged the details and set the date and time.

The crew arrived at lunch time on Wednesday. I am not going to lie, I spent the morning being quite nervous. When the doorbell rang my heart started pounding but as they all piled out of the car all my fears started to dissapate. They were all so easy going, laughing and having fun. The vibe was very relaxed and I knew it was going to be a good day.

Channel 7 arrives in Bungendore

So the crew consisted of five people, the producer, the sound guy, the lighting guy, the camera man and the host of the show, Madelaine Collignon.

They set me up with a microphone and lit the room brightly with their stage lights. I had set up a display of cakes behind my workbench and had specially made a coule of kids cakes to go with my wedding cakes.

We started off with a quick run through the questions they were going to ask and then we jumped straight into it. It was fascinating to see how it all works behind the scenes. We did each question and answer twice so they could film it from a different angle each time. Then we moved into the demo. I had decided to do my dinosaur cake as it is bright and fun and a good place for a beginner decorator to start.

All up we spent around an hour and a half filming, I must say it felt like half an hour it just flew by. I can't believe how much fun I had. The crew made it all so much fun that I completly forgot about nerves and just enjoyed the moment. It really was a great experience and am honored they chose me to participate in the show.

At the end of the filming I sent them away with the cake for them to share at the office, I hope they enjoyed it!

Next is to see it on TV! I am really excited to see how they edit down all the footage. Now it is on early on a Saturday morning but I think it will be worth getting out of bed for, I will post on my Facebook page when I have the exact date it will air.

Madelaine Collignon of Channel 7 and Tenele Pekin from Stacked Cakes

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I thought you might like to see some fun kids cakes I did recently.

This one is based around the character Humphrey from Humphrey's Corner.

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