British baker wins Jim Carrey’s seal of approval after sculpting a life-size CAKE version of his character The Grinch in just three days
- Lara Mason, 35, from West Midlands, created incredible life-sized Grinch cake
- Baker known for realistic cakes initially gave herself seven days to finish project
- After an illness flair up and contracting Covid she was left with just three days
- Finished product was praised by The Grinch actor Jim Carrey on social media
A baker has won Jim Carrey’s seal of approval after creating a life-sized replica of The Grinch out of cake in just three days.
Lara Mason, 35, who is originally from Northern Ireland and lives in the West Midlands, has become a social media star thanks to her incredibly realistic, life-sized cakes.
Her latest project saw the baker create an incredible full-scale cake of the Christmas character, revealing that she was only left with three days to finish the task after being struck with illness and Covid.
Carrey, 59, who played the titular role in the 2000 festive film, took to social media on Boxing Day to praise the baker, tasking her with re-creating his 1994 character Ace Ventura next.
A baker has won Jim Carrey’s seal of approval after creating a life-sized replica of The Grinch out of cake in just three days. The cake was created with an internal frame covered in slabs of cake and chocolate ganache (pictured) before being layered with modelling chocolate
Lara is pictured standing next to her finished cake after her two-week project was cut down to just three days due to illness and Covid
Sharing a YouTube video of Lara creating the cake, the actor said: ‘My ultimate goal is not just to be admired by my fans, but to be eaten by them. I wonder if she does an angel food Ace Ventura?’
Sharing a YouTube video of Lara creating the cake, the actor said: ‘My ultimate goal is not just to be admired by my fans, but to be eaten by them. I wonder if she does an angel food Ace Ventura?’
Explaining the process, Lara said she had initially set herself over two weeks to create the cake, however after a flair up of a pre-existing medical condition – her time was cut to just five days.
Speaking in a TikTok video four days before Christmas, she said: ‘I set myself a challenge of building this guy, life-sized out of cake before Christmas in 17 days.
‘I have a lifelong condition that made me a little bit poorly, which cut 12 days off my total time I had to build it, which was fine because I could probably still manage until I started feeling poorly about four days ago.
Lara Mason, 35, (pictured) who is originally from Northern Ireland and lives in the West Midlands, has become a social media star thanks to her incredibly realistic, life-sized cakes
‘I took a Covid test and it was positive. It wasn’t too bad really because I could still carry on working on the cake since it was just for a display.
‘However I was relying on friends and family to look after the kids while I did the cake because it’s the school holidays which obviously they can’t do now, because I had to isolate. My husband is also a key worker and had to go back today.
‘I am feeling a little bit better than I am yesterday so I am going to try and crack on with the cake but I have absolutely no idea how much i’m actually going to get done’.
The cake was created with an internal frame covered in slabs of cake and chocolate ganache before being layered with modelling chocolate.
Lara shared a YouTube video documenting her progress with the cake, which was made of slabs of cake and chocolate ganache before being layered with modelling chocolate
The incredible full-scale cake of the Christmas character (pictured) was created in just three days
After sharing the finished product, Lara was met with hoards of comments praising the cake on social media, hailing her ‘super talented’ and calling her incredible creation ‘unreal’.
‘Oh my good lord above! That is INSANE! congratulations! That is incredible!’, wrote one user.
‘Smashed it mate!!! Looks amazing!’ said another user.
‘Well done!! You are extremely talented. Love all your amazing work. Merry xmas’ said a third.
After sharing the finished product, Lara was met with hoards of comments praising the cake on social media, hailing her ‘super talented’ and calling her incredible creation ‘unreal’
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