When you picture the most stunning wedding cake you’ve ever seen, we’re guessing it didn’t look like a living, breathing beast.
While multi-tiered cakes with luscious white icing and edible flowers are perfectly fine for the occasion, a baker in Pennsylvania used every tool in her decorating kit to give an outdoorsy couple a cake none of their guests will ever forget when they got hitched in 2019.
Pam McNeal, the cake decorating supervisor at Shady Maple Farm Market in East Earl, earned some online fame when the cake was shown off by her employer on Facebook. The result was a life-sized buck, complete with a pair of antlers and plenty of details that would make anyone look twice when they saw it sitting on a banquet table.
“Truly incredible work,” the store wrote in the post with an image of McNeal standing with her creation. That might be an understatement.
Since it was posted, the photo has racked up more than 2,000 reactions and been shared more than 3,000 times across the platform. The comments have been flooded with people complimenting McNeal’s work and talking about other cakes she’s made — but some couldn’t resist the chance to make one recurring joke.
“How much does it cost?” commenter Jay Byerly wrote. “A buck?”
The store didn’t comment on the cost of the cake or go into further detail about how McNeal created it, but employees there opened up about the process to Philadelphia’s WTXF-TV. They told the station that it took her 10 hours to make and could serve about 250 people. The neck and head were made of styrofoam — and the antlers were the real deal, provided by the couple who commissioned it — but everything else was cake.
Shady Maple Farm Market has quite a following on Facebook and has shared plenty of other snapshots of the gorgeous, animal-themed treats from its bakery. Here’s one that looks just like a pig playing in messy mud that, frankly, deserved more love on social media.
A pair of cuddly tigers made of cake was put onto a dessert platter for a family’s Christmas cake by the staff at the store’s bakery. We’re not sure what the connection to the season is but the result is fantastic.
But our favorite might be this cake version of an adorable doggy with a litter of pup-cakes. The details given to each breed are stunning.
Clearly, the bakers at Shady Maple Farm Market are not messing around.
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After seeing these videos, we needed more, more, more, so we reached out to Natalie Sideserf, owner and resident artist at Sideserf Cake Studio in Austin, Texas. She’s one of the amazing cake artists creating this gorgeous, edible artwork. She not only told us about how she got her start, she hooked us up with photos of some of her jaw-dropping work.
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This is the first cake Sideserf took a stab at for a friend’s birthday party. Little did she know this would be the first step in her delicious cake-making journey.
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This is the bust cake that garnered Sideserf her first online accolades. Her brother submitted the cake to Reddit and it ended up on the front page of the site.
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Sideserf had the opportunity to make this cake for Johnathan Banks, the actor who plays Mike Ehrmantraut on both AMC’s Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
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Is that… Yoda? Not quite, but it sure looks a lot like him. Sideserf had the chance to team up with bakers on Food Network’s Buddy Vs. Duff to make this hyper-realistic cake as a member of team Duff.
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When Sideserf was studying art at The Ohio State University she had to draw peaches in her sketching work. It looks like a real peach on the outside, but yeah, it’s really cake.
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We’re almost entering Matrix territory with the multiple dimensions of this cake replica of a stuffed animal that’s a replica of the University of Texas mascot, Bevo.
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