Apart from cooking some unique bakes like ‘Gulab Jamun Cheesecake’ and ‘Rasmalai Cake’, talented bakers have also turned to whip out some hyper-realistic cakes that resemble fruits, household objects, and in some cases, a life-size human lying on the hospital bed.
Well, this time it’s a desi delicacy that has been recreated as a cake by a popular artist. Giving her edible ‘Soap Cake’ a tough competition, Natalie Sideserf from ‘Sideserf Cake Studio’ came up with a cake inspired by my favorite Indian dish, the Butter Chicken.
Yes, she actually created an entire bowl of the delish North Indian dish into a cake.
While demonstrating how she made the realistic and edible ‘Butter Chicken Cake’ she says that it’s her love letter to her friends in India.
Natalie first makes the serving bowl by stacking layers of cake, then carving it into its shape and covering it with buttercream. Then by enveloping the cake with brown modeling chocolate and adding some intricate details to it, she completes the bowl.
This was followed by making chicken chunks using cake scraps that were skilfully placed on the cake bowl. To resemble the rich and creamy gravy of the authentic dish she uses strawberry sauce and drizzles it over the cake.
This is how Butter Chicken lovers reacted to it:
Catch her in action here:
Here’s her realistic ‘Soap Cake’.
Well, as someone in the comments section said, this cake is so realistic that I would be disappointed if it didn’t taste like the OG dish. But at least this way even vegetarians can relish this delicacy. LOL!