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(No) star bakers

Amateur bakers try and recreate professional cakes… and their awful attempts will have you in stitches

INSPIRED by Bake-off's illusion cake challenge? Back away from the spatulas people, cake decorating can end in fondant failure.

If you're a fan of The Great British Bake off maybe you're thinking of pulling on an apron yourself, how hard can it be, right?

Well if these cake-fails, compiled by users of Reddit and Imgur, are anything to go by, it's harder than it looks.

 With neck muscles to rival any weightlifter, it looks like Disney princess Snow White has been working out in this sticky tribute.
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With neck muscles to rival any weightlifter, it looks like Disney princess Snow White has been working out in this sticky tribute.

With tutorials and how-to videos all over the internet, it's easy to think you could save a bit of party budget by making the cake yourself.

But you'd be wrong.

Making a tasty cake is hard enough, never mind making it look like something else while you're at it.

Here we take a look at some cakes which haven't quite met up to expectations.

Be wary of getting too involved in icing or fiddling with fondant, you could end up with bigger problems than just a soggy bottom.

Even a simple looking design like this Lego Ninjago face can go disastrously wrong.

 Ninjas are masters of disguise, but this cake isn't even recognisable as a cake!
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Ninjas are masters of disguise, but this cake isn't even recognisable as a cake!

 

 Cookie Monster is such a cute idea for a cake but the reality is pretty hard to stomach
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Cookie Monster is such a cute idea for a cake but the reality is pretty hard to stomach
 Sometimes even the professionals get it wrong. This customer ordered a cake shaped like a science atom...and got this!
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Sometimes even the professionals get it wrong. This customer ordered a cake shaped like a science atom...and got this!
 A disaster themed wedding cake. What could go wrong...? Oh, everything!
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A disaster themed wedding cake. What could go wrong...? Oh, everything!
 Get this cake right and you'll be happy as a pig in s**t. Get it wrong and you'll just be in the s**t! And why are there cows in there?
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Get this cake right and you'll be happy as a pig in s**t. Get it wrong and you'll just be in the s**t! And why are there cows in there?
 The maker of this Spiderman cake clearly realised they'd bitten off more than they could chew and walked away after completing the outline. Probably for the best.
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The maker of this Spiderman cake clearly realised they'd bitten off more than they could chew and walked away after completing the outline. Probably for the best.
 Looks like R2D2 has been standing too close to the fire.
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Looks like R2D2 has been standing too close to the fire.
 This pooch is pretty close to the original idea, but it still looks like a Mr Whippy has had eyes drawn onto it.
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This pooch is pretty close to the original idea, but it still looks like a Mr Whippy has had eyes drawn onto it.
 This galaxy cake was a pretty big ask for an amateur baker. And that's why the result looks less out-of-this-world, and more straight-into-the-bin.
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This galaxy cake was a pretty big ask for an amateur baker. And that's why the result looks less out-of-this-world, and more straight-into-the-bin.
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