Mum wows Harry Styles fans after sculpting bust of singer from leftover cake
A creative mum has stunned music fans after creating a lifelike bust of Harry Styles from cake.
Lara Mason, the baker behind Lara Cakes, said she originally planned the project as an exercise to practice her skills. But foodies have been left gobsmacked by the final result - one in a long line of her creations that have taken the internet by storm.
Inspired by shows like Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes, Lara started sculpting her own cakes, including a life-size Prince Harry and Megan Markle ahead of the 2018 royal wedding. Now, she's a full-time cake maker, and her husband left his job to work with her, such is the demand for the flamboyant designs.
Lara spent hours perfecting the cake (laracakesofficial/TikTok)
Styled after Harry Styles (laracakesofficial/TikTok)Explaining her popular Styles cake, the talented mum told Belfast Live: "Harry Styles is everywhere at the moment and he is probably one of the most photographed, iconic people out there at the moment and so I thought there would be no one better to practice my sculpting skills on. Plus I am a huge Harry Styles fan."
"This cake was a practice and I had some leftover cake in the freezer from a project I had worked on so I thought that there was no point in throwing it out and might as well use it to practice my skills. It has been 10 or 11 years of trying things on and off to make my skills better," she added.
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In order to make the cake, she scoured the internet to find pictures of her subject, a challenge she found surprisingly difficult considering Styles is an oft-photographed popstar.
Fans were stunned by the cake (laracakesofficial/TikTok)
As they could not believe the final result (laracakesofficial/TikTok)Lara explained: "With someone like Harry Styles, I was working off pictures from the internet and it is really hard to find different images with the same expression but from different angles. You then have to print them out the size of his head, build your frame and stack your cake on top then you are ready to sculpt."
Thankfully, Lara is a pro, one whose skills have seen her earn a legion of her own fans online. A Toy-Story-themed sculpture cake she made during lockdown proved particularly popular.
"When Covid struck and TikTok took off, I downloaded the app and decided to upload a couple of videos of my cakes to see what would happen," she explained. "I uploaded the Toy Story video and my social media went mad!
"At the time I was making cakes on the side and working full time but because of the success I have had on TikTok, I now do this full time and my husband was able to leave his job to do this with me full time."
And she wowed fans once more with her latest creation, though not everyone saw the resemblance. Sharing a video filmed during the making process, @laracakesofficial wrote: "Lifesize Harry Styles bust cake. Getting someones likeness is SO hard. I hope I did Harry justice."
Replying to the video, which has amassed over 100,000 likes, one viewer wrote: "At first I was like 'uh oh…' then it turned out great!" "Awesome," added a second. Another thought: "It really reminds me of someone… but it's not Harry! I cannot put my finger on who it is! But my god, it's incredible what you can do!"
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