From the Queen to Chuck Norris and Michael Jackson: Amazing Celebrity Portraits in Cake

May 7th, 2012

Appliance Talk Ovens & Cooking

With celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee Festival (marking 60 years of the Queen being Queen) kicking into gear, a portrait of her majesty made from cake is set to go on display.

Apparently this royal sugar hit will be constructed from 3,120 individual cakes (each representing one week in her reign).

Handcrafted by the bakers at Konditor & Cook, a central London-based caked shop, it’ll require more than a 1000 eggs, 150 bags of sugar (150kg) and 36kg of marzipan. The final portrait will measure nine square metres across.

It will be on display from 3 June, Battersea Park south-west London. And for a small donation, the general public will have the privilege of eating the Queen’s face.

More celebrities immortalised in cake.

The Queen isn’t the first to be rendered in icing and cream, oh no. There’s an amazing amount of  celebrity cake portraiture out there.

Here are a few of our faves.

• Chuck Norris (right). Actually we had a lot of portraits of this round-house-kicking folk-hero to choose from. Some of which, we admit, look like a random blob of cream with a beard.

This one captures the essence of the man – and his attitude of lethal righteousness sets just the right tone for a birthday celebration.

• Tom Selleck (left). The artist shows a deep and profound understanding of their subject here. Irresistible blue eyes. Moustache you just want to get tangled up in. A fine pelt of chest hair, as lustrous as a dead badger.

Emma’s a lucky girl.

• Michael Jackson (right). A touching tribute to the late musical genius. A tasty treat in the best possible taste. Artfully framed by the silver baking tray.

Waters the mouth while bringing a tear to the eye.

• Mr T. (left) Yummy and terrifying. What more could you want?

And we pity the fool who thinks it looks like a lump of dung.

• Slash (right).

I don’t know what’s more perfect about this cake. The precision that’s gone into the tangle of rock-star locks. The nonchalant pout. The cigarette, we hope, is genuine – for that ultra-realistic touch.

This cake is so awesomely-pure rock you can imagine it arching its back during the squawky bits of a guitar solo, busting up with the lead-singer, and then making out with your sister.

Happy Birthday, Nick, indeed. Make the most of it – after this, the rest of your life will be a very bitter anticlimax.

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