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There are plenty of posts about confectionery on Bored Panda, as there's a massive demand for sweet news. Some use cakes as a part of some imagined situation, some are in it for the unique art itself or creative choices, and some create cool desserts that are just plain creepy. No matter the preference, in baking, like in real cake, there are layers of hierarchy: only a select few become the creme de la creme, cream of the crop, top of the food chain, the icing on the cake. Ben Cullen, 28, is one of them. His cake designs have a stunning range—from something that looks like it came from a fast-food diner to edible clothes, to stylized-yet-lifelike busts, to stabs at horror movies, to vegetables and optical illusions—he can do it all, it seems. His edible art messes with your brain, too! Some of his eye tricks look better on the outside than on the inside, and some the other way around. Some things seem so delicious that you don't care what they'd actually taste like, and some you wouldn't approach from miles away (they're still probably delicious, though.) In any case, check his food art out and see for yourself. If you felt a sugar rush and you're hooked, check out his Instagram and Facebook to see even more. Who knew that the term "eye candy" could be so figuratively literal? Have a nice one.
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Shadowpuppy_123 5 years ago
“a lot of people see this as a glass of water. But I see it.... as a piece of cake.” -Zach King
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Elina Kuusisto 5 years ago
I know the phrase is over-used but my mind is blown!! Are you kidding me???
Layla Corman 5 years ago
I hate to be that person, but these are real potatoes mixed in with a cake potato (which is unbelievably amazing- I won't take that away!) You can tell by the shine on the skin and different color. The top R is the cake potato in the top pic.
Charlotte 5 years ago
I see what you mean - the real potatoes lend authenticity to the cake, making it seem more realistic than if it were on its own. Clever :) It's nonetheless brilliantly executed!
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OWLbystarlight 5 years ago
As someone who works in the produce department of a grocery store and handles yellow potatoes everyday: These are freaking amazing. Wow. The detail is INSANE.
ZeitCycloneTangram 5 years ago
You wouldn't believe how hard I strained myself trying to find a single flaw in the top picture.
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Matthew Adamson 5 years ago
I hate apples so i guess this is how my mom could hide her desserts fro me.
Yamini Mahendran 5 years ago
I always wanted a green apple that tastes like a green skittle. This is as close as it can get.
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ForkNBeans 5 years ago
These cakes are absolutely AMAZEBALLS!!!! The BEST I've ever seen! I wish I could order one!
Layla Corman 5 years ago (edited)
I want this REAL bad! It is a perfect size (I assume) for my night time snack! Edit: I'm also dreaming that the inner pit is solid milk chocolate!
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
I wonder if this banana cake is actually banana chocolate flavor too? 🤤
Faith Nicole 5 years ago
This would be great if it was a chocolate covered banana flavored cake
Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
I mean wth! It even looks MORE ripe in the second image! What sorcery is this!?
Reagan James 5 years ago (edited)
I normally don’t like bananas, but this one looks delicious!
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
Just 🤯🤯🤯 Hands are soooo hard to draw! I couldn't imagine making a CAKE one!
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We Were On A Break! 5 years ago
He should have used the brand Corona to freak out people even more
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Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
Amazing cake, but I wouldn't able to eat it, at least with the outer layer on. My mind would be confused, eyes saying it's a savory dish and other senses telling me it's a dessert
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Ann McNeil 5 years ago
Is there SUPPOSED to be only one picture here? I just see the pizza slice.
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Jackie Wacky 5 years ago
This tortoise is so lifelike, it seems a bit cruel to start eating him!
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jo Philbin 5 years ago
Even got the fingerprints! This guy is huge over here in the UK, he's on the TV show Extreme Cake Makers for anyone who's interested x
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Elin Stenqvist 5 years ago
Huh? It's a British dish. You can tell by the way there's baked beans on everything 😀
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I love me some spuds - boiled, broiled, grilled, fried, mashed, baked, fully loaded - but with pork and beans??? NO!!!! That is an abomination to any spud! However, wonderful job - some mad skills here!
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
My reaction to this is the same as to the Turkey cake. Amazing cake, but I wouldn't able to eat it, at least with the outer layer on. My mind would be confused, eyes saying it's a savory dish and other senses telling me it's a dessert
Christopher Hughes 5 years ago
God I hope those aren't real beans, because I still can't tell...
Charlotte 5 years ago
It's baked beans in a tomato sauce. It's a British classic that works for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. With your Full English fry-up, on top of toast, with sausage & mash, baked eggs and loads more. They're tinned and take just a couple of minutes to heat on the hob or in the microwave so are really convenient.
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FurryManiac 5 years ago
Yay, I’m not the only person who thought that! If you hadn’t said that, it would have only reassured me that I have a dark mind..
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💥 Bakugou, Katsuki 💥 5 years ago
Admire all of the meticulous detail this person had to use to catch your attention, just to destroy it, this truly is the purest form of art. ❤️
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Alison Marchand 5 years ago
Okay, now I'm starting to get suspicious. Does this man sell these/other cakes to people? What happens with the ones he takes a slice out of for the picture? How do we know how much of these are real cake ingredients? I have questions 🤨
jo Philbin 5 years ago
He does most of these for a TV show over here in UK called Extreme Cake Makers - part of the deal is they get before and after shots of the cakes to show they don't just look pretty x
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Koeri Svrcek 5 years ago
thanks for explaining all! i thought it looked like baked beans but never ever heard of it going on toast !
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
It's not baked beans actually. It's the beans they sell in a can, called Pork and Beans, with just a light tomato flavor sauce. The same beans are then used to make baked beans and also there are cans of another product with the same flavored sauce as the Pork and Beans, made in snack size cans called Beenie Weenies with little pieces of hot dogs cut up in the beans and you eat them usually room temperature. They offer a BBQ flavor in the Beenie Weenies, but baked beans are a product made separately from these cans of beans eaten on toast. These have a very light colored, more clear looking liquid that they are in with a very mild flavor. They don't have any of the brown sugar, garlic, molasses, onion, or seasoning like baked beans in them.
Charlotte 5 years ago
Baked beans, in a tomato sauce, from a tin. Heats in minutes, goes on toast, on jacket spuds, with eggs, sausages, bacon and loads more. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. We Brits love them - according to Heinz (the leading brand) 25% of us eat them several times a week!
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Ninja Kitty 5 years ago
OMG IT SPYRO THE DRAGON! IM FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW!!! ⁽ʷʰʸ ᵃᵐ ᴵ ˢᵒ ᵉˣᶜᶦᵗᵉᵈ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᵈʳᵃᵍᵒⁿ ᴵ ʷᵃˢ ᵇᵒʳⁿ ᶦⁿ ²⁰⁰⁷ ᵇʳᵒ ⁻~⁻⁾
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Christopher Hughes 5 years ago
Until his face was cut open :( excellent otherwise
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Em Wal 5 years ago
You can also use crushed up graham crackers as most people don't want to eat straight up sugar
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Tia Hansen 5 years ago
Adorable... I’m so Happy you didn't show the picture of it cut or i would of cried
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I love it when people say spoopy instead of spooky. Makes my day.
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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Actually, I just discussed with my girlfriend and she agreed to have it for our wedding cake.
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Marisa Ramcharan 5 years ago
Worse - looks like she is going to eat HERSELF
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Alison Marchand 5 years ago
Aaaaahahaha, as I was scrolling down I thought this was going to be a poo/poo emoji cake until the last second 😆
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Rhys Cernunnos 5 years ago
Nah, not fond of the Baldwins. They were the Kardashians of way back when. I know of many far better actors than him.
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BlackestDawn 5 years ago
No no, it's not completely black in the middle so it's just "caramelized". :P
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Suzanne Clark 5 years ago
I'm getting hungry and I don't know if it's for sweet or savory--this it totally confusing me!
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
Old school! I used to think I was hot s**t playing with one of these at my grandparents office...until I got yelled at. I love the torn paper here.
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Lydia Rone 5 years ago
I probably would have spit it out in surprise if they told me it was a sandwich.
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FurryManiac 5 years ago
It’s called fondant(It’s pronounced fon-DAUNT but many people say it as fon-DINT...drives me mad!!)
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The cool, just came from a bin of ice, water droplets on the top just probe that this dudes attention to detail is 100! The can actually looks cold.
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
This is absolutely breathtaking. I would love to see it from different sides.
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Doctor who?! 5 years ago
I would. Like take these cakes out and goos people aout by eating *a raw stake*
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PotatoNinja5000 5 years ago
Brick. Twinkie's are rounded, and not generally a British thing (unless we find overpriced boxes in the our local sweet shop).
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
I definitely thought it was filled with whatever is on the end.
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Rhys Cernunnos 5 years ago (edited)
Chicken nuggets are not fake meat, princess, it's just processed to make it into compressed nuggets. Same difference as fish sticks, hot dogs and sausages, but I don't hear you whining about them.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Am I the only one slightly weirded out that they take slices from the people's faces every time?
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
In Sex in The City 2, Charlotte has "Pudding in her Prada". This one would be "Cake in the Gucci".
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Hopefully he got to assemble him just like a real mr potato head.
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Gemma Lees 5 years ago
Walker's was started in 1948 by a guy called Walker and was bought out by Frito-Lay, (PepsiCo), in 1989. They kept the name due to the legacy of the brand and to prevent losses in sales from customers not knowing that the brands were the same.
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Iva Kazalova 5 years ago
That looks like the chick from, was it criminal minds or some other csi show like this
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Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
These are incredible. I wouldn't be able to eat many of these, though, when I eat a dessert I want it to look like a dessert
NMN 5 years ago
For me none of those, cos I don't like fondant nor icing; some of the chocolate around seems too massive, while others I don't see a good balance between cake and filling. The point of those is the looks (which he nails) and it probably tastes good (for those that don't hate fondant)
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John Louis 5 years ago
While I am amazed at the skill involved in making these cakes it seems like a lot of work just to create something people are going to eat. One hour after showing off your masterpieces all that's left is crumbs.
Anne 5 years ago
These are more cake sculptures than edible, although kids probably would like the amount of sweetness. For this type of cakes, the cake itself needs to be denser than you would want in a cake and the frosting and fondant are used as clay, not as flavor. (It was mentioned already, but usually, this is a show piece and there is a separate flat cake that's very yum on the side to actually eat)
Mary Christine Pullen 5 years ago
You are so talented. Happy to see you are using your skills to create such beautiful works of art. It's almost a crime they are edible!
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
These are incredible. I wouldn't be able to eat many of these, though, when I eat a dessert I want it to look like a dessert
NMN 5 years ago
For me none of those, cos I don't like fondant nor icing; some of the chocolate around seems too massive, while others I don't see a good balance between cake and filling. The point of those is the looks (which he nails) and it probably tastes good (for those that don't hate fondant)
Load More Replies... John Louis 5 years ago
While I am amazed at the skill involved in making these cakes it seems like a lot of work just to create something people are going to eat. One hour after showing off your masterpieces all that's left is crumbs.
Anne 5 years ago
These are more cake sculptures than edible, although kids probably would like the amount of sweetness. For this type of cakes, the cake itself needs to be denser than you would want in a cake and the frosting and fondant are used as clay, not as flavor. (It was mentioned already, but usually, this is a show piece and there is a separate flat cake that's very yum on the side to actually eat)
Mary Christine Pullen 5 years ago
You are so talented. Happy to see you are using your skills to create such beautiful works of art. It's almost a crime they are edible!
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