I don't often get to use both the food and astronomy tags on one post. For the Weekend: How to Bake a Planetary Structural Layer Cake
"'Our knowledge is mostly theoretical of course,' she writes, 'but the gas giants are thought to have a core comprised mostly of rock and ice,' depicted here with mudcake. 'This is surrounded by a layer liquid metallic hydrogen [using almond butter cake, naturally], and the outer layer is composed of molecular hydrogen [vanilla cake, dyed blue].' The cake, she admits, 'is totally not to scale.' I think we can give her a pass. Because planet cake."
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