Fancy a slice? Cake offers taste of Peaky Blinders
A TALENTED baker spent more than 330 hours painstakingly creating an life-size replica of Peaky Blinders’ Tommy Shelby – out of cake.
Jane Lashbrook, 53, sculpted the incredible 5ft 8ins tall Cillian Murphy character from the gritty BBC drama entirely out of sponge.
She scoured the internet to find the exact measurements of the Irish actor – and even made sure his shoes were the right size.
It then took the cake maker 336 hours to craft it into the image of the Brummie gangster with little touches like his signature cigarette, waistcoat and a pocket watch. Alongside Tommy sits a bust of his brother Arthur and New York mobster Luca Changretta, which were created by bakers Stephanie Would and Corinna Maguire. The group’s stunning creations were on display at the weekend’s Cake International show at Birmingham’s NEC.
Ms Lashbrook, from London, said: “Stephanie organised the Peaky Blinders stand and came to me and asked me if I would make Tommy and I said I would love to. I went and did him fully standing up. I couldn’t just do a bust of him, you have to go full size for Tommy Shelby as he is the main man. He’s life-sized too, the right height and shoe size.
“You have to give a few millimetres either way but I took his statistics and tried to get exact body measurements. He’s around 5ft 8, and wears a size 10 shoe. It’s made from a sponge cake with rice crispy mixture, icing and sugar paste.”
Ms Would, 38, who owns Cake Nation in Bradford, West Yorks, added: “It takes a lot of planning.
“We chose the Peaky Blinders because it being in Birmingham, we thought it would be great.”