Lockdown baking like you’ve never seen: pair perfect illusion cakes that look like a designer handbag, a bottle of burgundy, a cup of milk tea – you name it
- When coronavirus curbs stopped two bakers holding classes and hosting events, they worked on making illusion cakes that look just like the real thing
- Alison Chan and Cony Lam examine every aspect of an object, like a Chanel bag, before replicating the details in sugar icing, and love challenging themselves
In a post on Instagram, a bag of Calbee crisps lies on a table. A young woman, instead of picking up the bag to open it, cuts into it with a knife.
These are just two of the eye-popping illusion cakes that Hongkongers Alison Chan Fong-ki, 28, and Cony Lam Yuen-fan, 29, have been making over the last two months. One year ago, Chan opened Dear Harley Cake Studio at PMQ, a fashion, arts and crafts hub in a heritage building in Hong Kong’s Central district on Hong Kong Island. The duo customise cakes, and host cake-decorating classes, birthday parties and bridal showers.
“We think of ideas about how we can catch people‘s attention on cakes, people who are not initially so interested in cakes. So we started to make everyday-life illusion cakes and made fun videos out of it. People like it a lot so we are very happy about it,” Chan says.