Philippe Clement / King Alfred's Cake / Cramp balls / Coal fungus (Daldinia concentrica) growing from tree trunk. La Brenne, France, April.

Doug Perrine / Wedding cake house (historical archive building) in Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean

Pete Oxford / Mahout making domestic elephant cake chapattis on open fire, Bandhavgarh NP, Madhya Pradesh, India

Roger Powell / Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) feeding on seed cake in a garden. Victoria, Australia

Kim Taylor / Common house flies {Musca domestica} on iced cake, UK.

Kim Taylor / Common house flies {Musca domestica} on iced cake, UK.

ZSSD / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) baby Panda Hua Mei celebrating her third birthday with a cake, native to Asia

Jan Vermeer / Marzipan cake with candles and wreath, Holland

Premaphotos / Australian cockroach (Periplaneta australasiae) feeding on a cake at night in a house, Costa Rica

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / House mouse feeding on cake {Mus musculus} UK