To create the confection, Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg turned to -- who else? -- Duff Goldman and his team at Charm City Cakes.
Recreating the eight-sided dome was tricky, even for a bakery known to make cakes in oddball shapes, like brains and BLTs. It involved more "mathematics" and "blueprints" than artistry, said Charm City's Mary Alice Yeskey. "We don't do a whole lot of eight-sided anything here."
Which is probably why it made for good TV; the cake was featured last night on Goldman's Food Network show, Ace of Cakes. The episode airs again today, Sunday and Monday.
FOR THE RECORD - An item published in yesterday's 2b column misspelled the name of a Goucher College student whose father is actor Matthew Modine. The student's name is Boman Modine.
The Sun regrets the errors.
"We've been able to turn the celebration into part of our marketing," said university spokesman Christian Kendzierski.
Ma'am, could you spell that again?
You don't need Silda Wall Spitzer, the career-chucking Harvard law grad standing by her hooker-using man, to prove we're living in a post-feminist era.
Consider this: Kristin Riggin, longtime spokeswoman for the Anne Arundel County state's attorney's office, has taken her husband's name.
Alas, there's no high-priced call-girl in this story. But there is wifely humiliation. Her new last name is a whopper: Fleckenstein.
"It's like Frankenstein with a fleck," she tells anyone having trouble pronouncing what she admits is a "horribly complex 12-letter name."
Fleckenstein actually took the name 11 years ago when she married Tom Fleckenstein, a lawyer who has run unsuccessfully for House of Delegates. It's on her driver's license, credit cards, not to mention political blogs. (As Kristin Fleckenstein, she was flack for a group called Mothers Opposing Bush in 2004.)
But she kept Riggin professionally until last month, when she gave hubby her new business card as a Valentine.
"I love him enough to double the length of my last name," she said.
Romance wasn't the whole reason for the switch, said the mother of three young Fleckensteins. "I have gotten to a point in my life where I can't have two names anymore," she said.
At least no one can accuse her of picking a mate for his name. A case manager in her office isn't above that kind of suspicion. Kim Knipple couldn't wait to give up her maiden name, even for a married one that also evoked a body part.
Added bonus: the Knipple-Foote wedding announcement made Leno.
Connect the dots
Most people who play the lottery will never smell money, but they can bank on another aroma: bubble gum. The Maryland Lottery came out this week with a scratch-and-sniff scratch-off that smells like Dubble Bubble gum. The lottery claims the Dubble Bubble Doubler is the "nation's first Dubble Bubble" game, but it is not the first scratch-and-sniff ticket, even for Maryland, where pine- and candy-cane-scented tickets have been offered at Christmastime. ... Sheila Dixon's choice for fire chief, Jim Clack, has the middle name of Sterling. That's important to at least one person in City Hall, mayoral spokesman Sterling Clifford. If there's any name confusion, Clifford said he can handle it. There's also a guy in the mayor's office with the first name Cliff. (That would be Cliff Sawyer, in the Office of Neighborhoods.)
