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On first glance this delicious full English breakfast
appears to have come straight from the frying pan - but it’s actually a
birthday cake.
The 38-year-old has been inundated with orders since setting up his
business, called Paul's Creative Cakes, at his home in Colchester,
Essex.
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And he spends hours painstakingly carving each in to all sorts of weird
and wacky designs.
His creations include a half-eaten picnic, an ice-cream sundae and an
outsized custard cream biscuit.
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He's even created fairytale castle,which measured an impressive six feet
by four feet and took an entire week to complete.
Paul said: 'I was a chef for 22 years and I began making cakes for
friends and family after being asked to take control of the pastry
section at work.
'When orders started getting more regular I decided to start making
cakes full time.
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'At the moment I work in my own kitchen at home but I would love to have
a shop or bigger place one day.'
Paul has found himself making cakes for all sorts of occasions -
including Birthdays, Christmas, Valentine's and Mother's Day.
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His carved inventions, made with flavoured sponges
and covered with jam, butter cream, fondant and icing, start at £35.
He said: 'The time it takes to make them varies a lot, anything from a
couple of hours up to the longest so far was a week.
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'The biggest one I've made so far was a fairy tale castle. It was made
on a board roughly 6ft by 4ft. I had to transport it to the venue in two
cars.'
'I've had a lot of requests. Enquiries comes in from all over the
country.
'People will come to me with an idea and I will make it in to a cake.
The strangest so far are probably a Dyson hoover and a chicken fajita.
My favourite so far is the ice-cream sundae.'
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Paul's creations are so sought after customers are prepared to go to
extraordinary lengths to get them.
He added: 'I deliver cakes myself in Essex, Suffolk and surrounding
areas and I am prepared to go further afield but petrol costs can end up
more than the cake.
'One young lady made a seven-hour round trip last year to pick up a cake
I had made for her and she said she would happily do it again.'
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