These four babies are loving smashing those cute pink cakes. But take a closer look at the picture. You'll be shocked when you see it!
Photo: Lara Mason via Facebook
They make a huge mess and are a total waste of deliciousness, but cake smashes are unarguably always adorable. That's why when this mom of multiples decided to do one for her daughters' first birthdays, she wanted to make it extra special.
UK mom Lara Mason recently posted photos on Facebook showing off her awesome cake smash photoshoot starring her twin daughters, Lyla and Lily. Yep, you read that correctly. Her daughters are twins, not quadruplets.
Now, it's totally cool if you're a little confused. We were too. But take a closer look at the picture and you'll notice the two babies in the middle aren't babies at all—they're cakes.
In addition to being a mom, Mason also owns her own bakery where she makes fun customized cakes like the ones you've seen on the Food Network and TLC. With her daughters' birthdays approaching, she decided to go big and make cake versions of her baby girls. "Not a lot of other people do this crazy thing that I do so I thought to myself... Why not?!" she wrote in her Facebook post. "I mean, what other kids get to say that their mum made them life-size cakes of themselves for their 1st birthday!?" Take a look at the video she posted along side her photos:
The twins with their Cake twins! Posted by Lara Mason Cake Art on Thursday, February 15, 2018
Now, we've seen a lot of those cake shows, so we know that making cake people look even somewhat realistic is a super tall order. And because they were her own children, Mason made sure to put extra special care into making these cake figures. "The cakes have taken a fair few hours—I’d say about 100 to 120 hours over the last few weeks," Mason told the Motherload. "It’s the most critical I have ever been while making 'cake people' because I feel like I did such a good job making them so cute in the first place!"
Props to you, Lara Mason. You had a vision and you went for it. We just have one question: Did you and your family eat the cake babies? Because we're thinking that might be pretty weird.
This article was originally published online in February 2018.
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Kevin is an associate editor for Canadian Business in Toronto, Ontario. More of their work can be found in MSN Canada, Chatelaine and This Magazine.