Mind you, GLaDOS, the domineering robot mother promising you the cake, does actually reveal near the end that she knows some cake recipes
and then there's a scene in the closing titles which suggests there really was cake, but it's left a bit deliberately ambiguous, to toy with your emotions.
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_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences,
Wed 20 Apr 2011, 22:56,
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Wed 20 Apr 2011, 22:58,
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