I had been wanting to make a boardgame cake for quite a while, trying to find something recognisable that would work as a cake. So, of course, it was only a matter of time until I ended up caking my favourite boardgame: Bios: Genesis by Phil Eklund (
Bios: Genesis on Sierre Madre Games;
Bios: Genesis on boardgamegeek.com).
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| The Refugium Card, the box, Bionts in a bag, Catalyst disks, and the Manna cubes |
The game which is set in precambrian earth when cute little molecules combined to create the first forms of life. These events take place in different suitable locations, so-called Refugia, represented by large square cards. Choosing one Refugium of the many interesting cards was one of the hardest parts of making this cake.
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| The Clay Mound Refugium: chocolate brownie cake with dark chocolate ganache and fondant |
The cards are the places where the fun happens, but for the action to take place, you need a few components, the magic molecules basic building blocks of life that happily wiggle around and then self-organise and snap together to form a single-celled life-form (but that is a story for another cake).
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| The different types of Manna, represented by cubes of different colour. |
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| The Bionts, the building blocks of life controlled by the players. |
The real game fits into a rather small and inconspicuous box, which might trick you into believing that this is a rather harmless travel game. It is not. The level of complexity and abstraction is mindblowing.
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| A comparison of cake and original game. |
