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In case the title of this article wasn’t clear
enough, the turkey in the picture below ins’t actually raw meat, skin
and bones, but an edible cake made of sponge, butter cream and marzipan.
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Even knowing that you’re looking at an expertly made optical illusion,
it’s still pretty hard to believe that it’s not really a turkey ready to
go into the oven. Everything from the pink, plucked skin, to the
properly-proportioned wings and drumsticks was perfectly executed by
English cake artist Sarah Hardy. Using her experience as a wax sculpture
artist, Hardy is able to mold layers of sponge cake, chocolate and sugar
or marzipan icing into all kinds of realistic designs, from human organs
to birds and frogs.
Sarah has been making her eerily-realistic raw turkey cake for at least
four years now, and she even has a tutorial on how to make one yourself
on her official website, but her unique creation only went viral this
month, after being featured in a now viral video by Food Insider.
Sarah Hardy explains that she paid her way through art school by making
wax figured for museums, but even though she enjoyed her work immensely,
she didn’t want to continue working with potentially dangerous chemicals
after she became pregnant. Luckily once she started making cakes for her
kids, she realized she could use the skills she developed as a wax
sculptor to shape her cake into various designs. She hasn’t looked back
since.
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Sarah’s amazing turkey cakes has a sponge and butter cream base, with
smaller pieces “glued” on with cream to highlight the wings and
drumsticks. Once the general shape is completed, the artist attaches
dozens of marzipan bits to create the plucked skin effect once the thin
layer of marzipan icing is added.
Finally, the expert cake artist uses fine tools to shape the marzipan
“skin” perfectly, using food dye to add more fine details.
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