The edible Baahubali

Sounds of Bale Bale Bale Baahubali, emanating from the Vadayatt house on loop on a daily basis was evidence of Anna Mathew Vadayatt’s fascination for the hero to her neighbours. A few days later, it became clear — Anna- an accomplished baker, had created a Baahubali cake as a tribute to her favourite character Amarendra Baahubali. As the song played on loop, Anna watched with an eagle eye, the intricate detailing on the elephant and Baahubali himself to recreate the gravity defying unforgettable scene for her Baahubali cake.

One look at the cake and it is obvious that Anna’s hours of watching the song have paid off. The eye for detail is obvious in the posture, the ornaments, the clothes and even the bells on the elephant.  And, as someone pointed out on her social media page, the toes of Baahubali are near perfection too.

The cake was Anna’s contribution to CakeFlix, the international movies and series cake collaboration but the choice of selecting  the immortal Baahubali moment was purely personal as Anna gushes, “I had heard of the collaboration and was in two minds about taking part but the moment I saw Baahubali- the Conclusion, I was in! I watched the film five times for Amarendra Baahubali and knew I had to create him as my entry for the collaboration.” Anna submitted her cake a month back which had lot of entries from abroad.

From the images of the cake, it is evident that a lot of painstaking effort has gone into the detailing of the man and the elephant. Anna who runs Cake Canvas explains, “I took nine days to complete this cake— the longest I have worked on any cake!  In fact the elephant took a longer time than Baahubali himself. The cake is in a 3 D format with the elephant made of chocolate cake and Baahubali made of icing, the decorations in fondant and gumpaste along with white chocolate ganache.” The challenge was in creating the cake in a gravity defying mode.