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I baked a life-size Shrek cake - I needed ladders to finish it

2025-07-30 923 Dailymotion

A talented baker who is renowned for her incredible cakes has created her biggest masterpiece to date - a life-sized version of SHREK.

Lara Mason, 39, spent 40 hours crafting the 6.5ft (1.9m) replica of the famous cartoon ogre out of vanilla cake and rich chocolate ganache.

The mum-of-two, from Brownhills, near Walsall, said the 400kg cake was so big that most of the decorating process needed to be done while balancing atop a set of ladders.

The cake was divided into pieces and donated to foodbanks