Fake off! Meet baking’s masters of illusion cakes

On Tuesday, Channel 4’s first batch of Bake Off contenders wowed Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood with cakes resembling sandwiches and watermelons – but they’re nothing compared with these hyperreal delightsIllusion cakes – cakes that look like something they are not – must have seemed the perfect trick to divert the eye from The Great British Bake Off’s own recasting. (Was it really Bake Off?) Illusion is a burgeoning area of baking, although its practitioners p