"Atomic Cake
From left: U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cut a cake made in the shape of a mushroom cloud at a reception for Operation Crossroads, November 6, 1946."
The cake was ordered by a member of Admiral Blandy's staff from a bakery in East St. Louis, Illinois. Eugene Kuehn and "a bakery supply salesman named L.Y. Stephens" designed it using "angel food puffs," and arranged for it to be shipped to Washington by car.
It's on LIFE's site now, but this image was actually first published in the Washington Post, on the Society page, where it was led above-the-fold coverage of the reception.
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This shi got above the fold?! Ludicrous.
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