With its uneven beady eyes, eight long legs and two thin antennae stretching all the way back to its bright orange tail, you could be forgiven for thinking this western rock lobster would make a tasty dinner. Plated up on a faux bed of ice crafted from isomalt, the life-sized creation would instead be better suited to dessert — it’s actually an artistic, baked cake creation, and the winner of this year’s decorated cakes masters division at the Perth Royal Show. Chief steward Glenda Crawford has been judging cake competitions for almost a decade and labelled the rock lobster creation “perfect”, with people left wondering “is this cake or not” — elevating it to the top of the table.
“The entry was in our masters category (and) this is basically the best of the best,” she told The Sunday Times. “You cannot enter masters unless you’ve won in other categories. “She created a novelty cake, and it had to be an illusion cake, so in other words it had to be an exact replica of something in the same size, (and) same colours.
“She did a western rock lobster and it is perfect . . .
It just looks stunning.” It has been a big year for the cookery competition with close to 800 entries submitted in the section — the highest received in a long time, according to Ms Crawford. Casting a close eye over those entries were 14 skilled judges, who marked them in areas including overall impression, degree of difficulty and construction, but more importantly — taste.
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