Photos: Hoyas Show Off Creative Literary Treats at Edible Book Festival

A cake styled to look like a bowl of noodles, complete with gravity-defying floating chopsticks.

Georgetown students, faculty, and staff gathered in Lauinger Library’s first floor on April 7, 2025, for the annual Edible Book Festival. The creative competition invited Hoyas to come up with edible works of art either resembling books or inspired by literary stories and book titles.

This year’s event saw a chair made of bread, a cookie cake beach scene, a bunny digging through chocolate for carrots, and the winning submission: a gravity-defying cake imitating chopsticks picking up ramen noodles inspired by Michelle Zauner’s memoir, Crying in H Mart.

A cake styled after the cover of George Orwell's 1984.
Chocolate cake with a bunny ornament digging through the chocolate crumbles.
A judge inspects one of the submitted items.
A cake recreating the cover of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.
A cake tribute to A Clockwork Orange depicting a clock's hands surrounded by orange slices.
A hand cuts through a cake modeled after the titular tower from RF Kuang's Babel.
Students crowd around the submissions, cutting pieces from each.