Fantastic Four #5 (2018)
Written by Dan Slott
Artwork by Adam Hughes
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Chef’s Note: I’m quite curious as to the bakery Johnny contracted with to make these giant over-sized cakes?
Not just because they turned out to be full of snake ladies but because of the fact that, despite their enormous size (big enough to hide two snake ladies each!), they appear to be made of actual cake, not cardboard.
As such, they required a baker of considerable cake-making skills, not to mention a bakery with an oven the size of a house. Really quite impressive.
Until the beginning of the 1970s most pop out cakes were real. Things changed in 1975 when “the AP newspaper published an interview with a baker that worked making them for a small fee of $2,000. They were built around huge cylinders that could house an adult.” Nowadays, the construction is generally made of corrugated cardboard, often covered with whipped cream or frosting to make them look real. This kind of pop out cakes present the advantages of being cheaper to build and easier to move, due to their lightness, but they are also much more fragile and should be handled with care.
Chef’s Note: Happy National Cake Day!