Life-size cakes of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Lara Mason spent 250 hours making the incredible cake, and the final result is extremely realistic. It could feed 500 people and was made using 300 eggs, 15kg of flour, 15kg of butter and 15kg of sugar.

To decorate and to hold the whole thing together, she needed more than 10kg of butter cream, 20kg of modelling chocolate and 50kg of fondant icing.

Lara said: “It really has been a labour of love, but I’m so pleased and so proud of myself. It’s the tallest cake I’ve ever made. Annoyingly, Prince Harry is 6ft 2 so it had to be 6ft 2.”

We think the cake looks incredible, but the biggest test was when she showed it off to her one-year-old twin daughters Lily and Lyla.

She said: “Lyla reached her arms out to try and give him a hug, so she must have thought he was a real person. That was the final nod because she wasn’t scared of him.”

Lara says the hardest part was sculpting Harry and Meghan’s faces from modelling chocolate.

She made the cake for the Cake International event, which will be held in Birmingham in November, so her incredible design will be doing into storage for the next few months.

A spokesman for Cake International said: “The cake was designed to stretch the designer’s boundaries in the art of cake decorating and never intended to be eaten, but enjoyed by thousands as an inspirational feature at Cake International at the NEC in November.

Mysterious hairy sea creature washes up on beach

A mysterious sea creature which looked like a ‘dead monster’ washed up on a beach — sparking fears of an impending disaster.

The enormous hairy blob surfaced at night around 7pm and was immediately thought to be a ‘globster.’

Marine workers arrived to take samples of the unidentified creature which they say, smells ‘awful’ and like ‘something from another planet.’

Villagers in the Oriental Mindoro province in the Philippines flocked to see the 20ft long dead carcass, posing for selfies with it. But others fear it is the sign of a natural disaster, such as an earthquake.

Resident Tam Maling said: “An earthquake is heading for Oriental Mindoro. The big globster is a sign of something bad coming. Please pray for us.”

Vincent Dela Pena Badillo added: “Many were alarmed including me when we learned the news about it. It has been told that when creatures from the deepest parts of the ocean start appearing, something bad will happen.”

However, government workers from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the Mimapora Region will dispose of the creature, which they believe could be a dead whale.

“For now we can say it’s a whale, but the exact species is still unknown. The tissue samples are now sent to our lab for DNA analysis.

Published in Dawn, Young World, June 2nd, 2018