A Lanarkshire baker has scooped the top prize at a competition thanks to her incredible life-sized cakes.
Anna Dillon won the gold award in the Decorative Celebrating Cake category at the ScotHot Culinary exhibition in Glasgow thanks to her newest offering - a 12 inch pig cake.
The 55-year-old from Cambuslang has a host of incredible edible masterpieces to her name, as reported by the Daily Record. They include replicas of famous faces ranging from Rabbie Burns, Sylvester Stallone and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler to The Tasmanian Devil and Marvel's Rocket and Groot.
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But it's not just famous faces that get the cake decorating treatment and the mum-of-one has even created a life-sized sculpture of her pet beagle, Poppy.
She told the Record it took 12 hours to create her winning masterpiece and she was shocked when she bagged gold for her efforts.
She said: "I think all in all it took about half a day to make. I actually took inspiration for this one from a wee ornament I have in the house. I made it so it looked like it could fly. It had wings, a flying hat and was wearing goggles.
"I never expected to win with it so I was shocked when I came back and saw I had been placed. I couldn't believe it. I was delighted."
Anna, who also works as a chef at Dalmeny Park House Hotel in Barrhead, has won praise from around the world for her celebrity caricatures and character cakes.
Famous faces who have captured her imagination include Pink, Liam Neeson, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie's character Maleficent from the 2014 film.
The first cake Anna created was a commission, for a birthday cake in the shape of Captain America's face, in 2013.
Anna said: "My first shaped cake was Captain America with his face and a shield in the background.
"Then it all took off from there."
Realising she had a knack for caricature and shaped cakes, in 2015 Anna entered her creations into the inaugural Cake and Bake Show in Edinburgh and has been impressing ever since.
In 2019 Anna made a nearly-lifesize sculpture of her pet beagle Poppy out of cake.
She was inspired to make a cake model of beloved dog Poppy, aged eight months at the time, showing the beagle with her ears flying as she leapt through the air.
The one-and-a-half foot cake took her four days to make, and metal wire was used to structure it, taking three days, with another day for decorating it.
Anna said she has been asked to appear on an American baking show, The Big Bake three times, however has yet to put them up on their offer.
She added: "As fun as it would be, I just don't have the time at the moment."
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