When Math Teacher Kyle Brescher assigned his geometry class an open-ended project involving fractals, he probably never expected to receive a cake. But that’s exactly what sophomore Sharon Zelnick ’12 chose to make – creating a giant fractal from vanilla cake, Hershey bars and vanilla icing.

Fractals are geometric shapes that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is a reduced-sized copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity. Mr. Brescher’s geometry students will discover how delicious self-similarity can be when they sample Sharon’s creation in class.