40 Unique Cake Designs

These unique cake designs show that the imagination can certainly run wild, even when it comes to something as seemingly ordinary as baking a simple cake.

Through innovation and the willingness to experiment, various creative culinary individuals have made an array of unique cake designs spanning a wide selection of pop culture genres, themes and ideas. Who would have thought someone would think to make a gruesome monkey brains cake from the 'Indiana Jones' movie franchise, much less be able to pull it off? Or that the fantasy world of HBO's 'Game of Thrones' could come alive through dessert?

By combining creative art with baking, a sampling of these playfully bizarre culinary creations is a treat not only for the taste buds, but also for the mind.