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When someone bakes a life-sized cake version of you, should you be flattered or freaked out? For Jennifer Lawrence, it made her “dreams as an actress come true.”
British baker Lara Clarke, 28, won the Cake International contest in Birmingham, England last week with a nearly six-foot-tall sponge cake created in the likeness of Lawrence’s Hunger Games character Katniss Everdeen.
So, when Lawrence appeared on BBC Radio 1 with her The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 costars Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth Tuesday, the program’s host Nick Grimshaw asked her about the confection.
“First of all I want to talk to you about this, Jennifer. I didn’t bring you this cake because it’s really, really creepy, but I want to know if you’ve seen this cake,” Grimshaw said, as he handed her a photo of the cake.
“Oh my god, yeah, I saw it. I saw it. It’s 5’11.” Lawrence said, sounding shocked. “But seriously if the girl who made that is listening: You’re incredibly talented.”
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Upon learning that Clarke also made a Jack Sparrow cake out of Rice Krispies Treats last year (for which she also took home the gold at the same cake competition), “Really? Okay now I don’t feel as special,” Lawrence joked. “Screw you, girl who made the cake, I’m not 5’11 — and my waist is smaller!”
The BBC reports that the cake calls for 150 eggs, 22 lbs. each of flour, butter and sugar and 4.4 lb. of yogurt (for moisture, perhaps?), while the intricate outer layer requires 132 lbs. of icing, 22 lbs. of modeling chocolate and 11 lbs. of ganache.
It took Clarke, who owns the bakery Tasty Cakes, 30 12-inch square tins and two and a half months to create the giant cake. It’s not recommended for consumption.
—Morgan Gibson
