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The sight of knives slicing into cakes that resemble everything from fruit to toilet roll has driven some people to existential crises
Here sits a Croc, the ugliest shoe in the world, until somebody just cuts it in half. It’s a cake. A cake with spongy, multicolored insides. Which means that you should be ready for this humble roll of toilet roll to be … What?! That’s a cake too?
The bakers behind these realistic creations, such as the American cake artist Natalie Sideserf and Turkish cake artist Tuba Geçkil, make cakes that imitate fruit, still lifes and even people. Sometimes their cakes look so real, you wonder whether a crime is about to be committed when the knife edge approaches what seems to be a person (Geçkil has even made cake portraits of Donald Trump and Angela Merkel.) Continue reading...