Science is a piece of cake, a tumor cell cake that is

Cakes are delicious. This is a fact. But did you know they can also be used for science?

Enter the Great Science Cake-Off, sponsored by Cancer Research UK, an organization that funds nearly half of the cancer research in the United Kingdom. CRUK, as it is known across the Atlantic, asked cancer researchers to bake and decorate a cake that tells a story about science.

One of the winners, announced on Thursday, is a mouthwatering rendition of tumor vascular targeting.

AND THE WINNER! Tumour vascular targeting: aim to starve tumours of their blood supply – Puja Lodhia #sciencecakes pic.twitter.com/sIkKQJZT6T

— Debbie (@CRUKBirmingham) November 7, 2013

See more of the cake entries below:

Entry 4 in #sciencecakes! A brain cake, complete with coloured regions. @CRUKLondon pic.twitter.com/UrCgnAcg7Y

— BCI (@QMBCI) November 7, 2013

The histone code: reprogramming gene expression to treat leukaemia – Manoj Raghavan #sciencecakes pic.twitter.com/sPuxzh4Yin

— Debbie (@CRUKBirmingham) November 7, 2013

Visualising science cake, winner of best decoration #sciencecakes @cr_uk colours 🙂 pic.twitter.com/GRRjfKIHiG

— Rebecca (@CRUKEastScot) November 6, 2013

Recognition of a tumour cell by a cytotoxic lymphocyte – Carrie Willcox #sciencecakes pic.twitter.com/uS8qJbkRws

— Debbie (@CRUKBirmingham) November 7, 2013

#sciencecakes Organisms unified together. Bacteriophage hitting on an e-coil bacterium trying to infect a cell. pic.twitter.com/gEXN5mbN7q

— Kirsteen Campbell (@CRUKGlasgow) November 7, 2013