Anna Dillon from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, has a hobby of making cake sculptures.

She has made caricatures of a number of famous people like Sylvester Stallone and Freddie Mercury.

She makes her cakes mainly with Madeira cake or Victoria sponge.

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Anna also made a cake sculpture of her beagle Poppy in which the eight-month-old pet has been shown with his ears flying as if he is running fast.

The cake, one and a half feet high, was completed in four days while the wire that gave the structure its integrity was made in three days. The final touches took yet another day.

“Poppy didn’t take me that long, it was mostly just the structure, but when I get to the finer details I race through. The decorating took about a day,” Anna said.

“I used a ten millimeter threaded rod, with bolts underneath and a couple through her paws so you can’t see it. It’s about one-and-a-half feet tall.

“I was wondering if it would be strong enough but it worked fantastically.”

To make cakes for competitions, Anna uses a blend of edible and non-edible materials. These include polystyrene, chocolate ganache, Rice Krispie treats and pasta scultura modelling paste.

To color her creations, she uses Sugarflair Airbrush Paints.

In the past, the artist has made cakes of famous people like poet Robbie Burns and the character of Angelina Jolie from Maleficent.

The first cake she created was a commission she undertook to create a model of Captain Jack Sparrow in 2013.

She said: “My first shaped cake was Captain America with his face and a shield in the background. Then it all took off from there.”

Discovering her ability to make cakes and her tendency towards doing this, Anna registered in the inaugural Cake and Bake Show in Edinburgh in 2015.

The judges were in love with her creation on the theme of fairy tales and children’s characters. She got the second prize for the amateur section.

Anna, who’s a care worker by profession, said: “I made a model cake of Angelina Jolie as Maleficent. The judges were zooming in with their phones and taking pictures.

“When you go to competitions your heart always sinks because you don’t think yours is good enough. But it was really good.”

Anna has converted her garage into a proper bakery so as to pursue her passion.

Speaking of her family’s response towards her work, she said: “My family’s only just coming round to it. I don’t let my husband help, he’s terrible with art, but he’s very supportive and drives me down to the cake shows.

“He’s very proud of what I do and so is my daughter.

“I do this all part-time and I’m self taught. I love it because it’s art, I’m quite an arty person. I combined the cake making and art together and that’s why I get these structures.

“Once I start I can’t stop. I love what I do and I just keep it as a hobby. I’ve just learned how to use each and every medium that I have used.

“I would say it just takes time and patience to work out how you can use these mediums, and that’s what I’ve done to get the results I’ve got today.”

 

 

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