I need to make a cake that looks like cell for a science class. Any ideas?

I just did an animal cell one. I baked a white cake. I hollowed out the middle, took vaniila icing and tinted it yellow, filled the inner circle I hollowed out. Then i bought candy shapes shuch as gummy worms, jawbreakers, miken ikes, and mnm's and made the inside of the cell. The cake wall was the membrane. Then I took toothpicks and made flags with the inside parts, such as nucleus. The teacher loved it and my son won most creative.

My son made this one for his bio class last week.

also a link to the original diagram he got the idea from.

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The cake was one layer of vanilla, covered in buttercream. The Nucleus was a vanilla cupcake that he cut and inserted some chocolate cake for the Nucleolus. The rest is fondant. HTH

-Rezzy

I did one in high school. I just used buttercream for everything and a different color for each cell part. I like the cupcake idea for the nucleus...good thinking.

Rezzy!!! that cell cake is awesome!!!! My Bachelor's and Master's degrees are in science so that is right up my alley!!!

Thanks everyone for the ideas. I had the same ideas and I suggested them but my friend decided to not enlist my help and did it on their own. They decided to make a big cookie with frosting and candies to represent each thing.