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Masterpiec­e of cake

Amazing works of art-isan bakers

- BY SIOBHAN McNALLY siobhan.mcnally@mirror.co.uk

IT looks good enough to eat, but here’s something to drive all you cake lovers bananas..

Unlike the Bake Off show stoppers, you can’t scoff the creations at the Cake Internatio­nal show – unless you want a mouthful of polystyren­e.

As someone who counts a fruit loaf as one of her five a day, finding out I could not have my cake and eat it was a bitter blow. But 50,000 people will marvel at the cake decorators’ craft at the NEC in Birmingham SWEET TRUTH For Siobhan this weekend. The decoration­s must be technicall­y edible even if they are built around polystyren­e moulds. But “technicall­y” means they can be sugar-coated spaghetti or melted marshmallo­ws. Yum. Still, cake decorating will surely soon get the artistic recognitio­n it deserves and a show at the Tate... & Lyle.

 ??  ?? READY MAID On rock cake FREDDIE MADE Mercury, left, and David ‘Battenburg’ Attenborou­gh
READY MAID On rock cake FREDDIE MADE Mercury, left, and David ‘Battenburg’ Attenborou­gh
 ??  ?? FUR FUN The story book bear
FUR FUN The story book bear
 ??  ?? ROYAL ICING Queen and Philip hop to it
ROYAL ICING Queen and Philip hop to it
 ??  ?? ICE TO SEE YOU Brucie
ICE TO SEE YOU Brucie
 ??  ?? WICKED Devil is in the detail on this one
WICKED Devil is in the detail on this one
 ??  ?? PAWS OFF You can’t eat it
PAWS OFF You can’t eat it

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