You know those moms who go all bananas when it comes to baking birthday cakes? Yeah, well, I don't pretend to be that mom for a second. But after laying eyes on the masterpiece that a baker made for a boy's fourth birthday, we all might as well agree to throw away our cake pans now.
It wasn't Thomas the Tank Engine or Dora that made its way onto little Alfie's cake, but a life-sized chocolate sponge of . . . Alfie with his toy monkey.
According to an article in New York Daily, the 12-layered cake weighed—wait for it—28lbs, took 15 hours to put together, and cost a whopping $660!
"I couldn't believe how amazing the cake looked, and I just cried," said 23-year-old British mom, Chantelle Rose. "Alfie was so happy. He was just screaming and pointing, 'It's me, it's me, it's Alfie and monkey.'"
Pretty incredible, given the minor fact that the uber-talented baker, Lara Clarke, hadn't even met Alfie when she embarked on the project.
The cake was so realistic, in fact, that when the time came to slice it up, guests were reluctant to scoff it. (Do you want half a head or an arm . . . ?) Some of the children at the party even demanded to know "why a little boy was sat on the table."
