Surreal sculpted cakes from Russia

Sure Fabergé eggs are beautiful, bejewelled and intricate as all hell, but you when you bite into them they really hurt your teeth. Perhaps the surreal sculpted cakes from Zhanna, a St. Petersburg baker are informed by the same passion that fueled the eggmaker to the Tsars.

Lord knows they're certainly detailed enough. Among the 50-plus intricate cakes pictured on English Russia are numerous structures, including bridges, cottages, a kitchen, a Pizza Hut and the Eiffel Tower. I'm not quite sure who Zhanna's clientele is but, based on the eye chart and mouth cakes, I'm guessing it includes eye doctors and dentists.

Many of the cakes sport distinctly American imagery including a blue Reebok sneaker, a Big Mac and numerous depictions of stacks of $100 bills. [via Boing Boing]
See the jump for a few more of these insanely creative cakes.
Zhanna clearly points out that every part of each of the cakes pictured is edible. I'd like to think that this particular example was made for a workaday chap who enjoys eating smoked fish, drinking beer and playing a bit of dominoes with his mates. I'd also like to think that the fish and the newspaper taste nothing at all like what they look.


How's this for a cool cake for your 60th birthday? I'd love to have one but, I'm not a Scorpio.


Maybe my theory about the link between Zhanna and Fabergé is correct after all. This treasure chest contains a lot of bling bling. The gems shouldn't hurt your teeth too much though, providing you brush.