A SCOTTISH cake maker’s amazingly lifelike creations have won her customers from around the world – including top-flight footballers.
Sharon Anderson specialises in making cakes based on real-world objects which have included designer handbags, typewriters, a prawn and even an iPad.
Scottish Man United star Darren Fletcher and Dundee United manager Jackie McNamara are among clients who pay more than £1,000 for cakes that take up to a month to create.
Sharon, 42, from Edinburgh, also has customers in Dubai, New Zealand and Singapore, some of whom like the creations so much they can’t bear to eat them.
Sharon made a cake for Dundee United’s Jackie McNamara, showing the football legend in his various club strips before finishing in his business suit.
Sharon said: “I’ve had a few customers come in now after their event and tell me they just couldn’t cut the cakes because they loved it too much.
“It’s really quite flattering when you think about it but the cakes are made to be eaten not left to rot in someone’s living room.”
Sharon has made cakes for all occasions, including a seductive 50 Shades of Grey model, complete with intimate body hair.
“One of the strangest would probably be the prawn. It’s a really sweet story actually. It was for a birthday and the wife was pregnant at the time and they referred to the baby as ‘the prawn’.”
Sharon, who opened her shop two years ago, says she’s up for making anything because she loves a challenge – as shown by her Eiffel Tower cake which took over a month to make.
She has also made an asparagus cake, designer jewellery boxes and a beef burger.
Sharon added: “I can’t give away all my secrets but the trick to getting a good, realistic texture on a cake is to use right tool.
“For example I used scrunched up tinfoil to give the leather impression on my bags which make them look like the real deal.”
