All these Japanese delicacies are made of cake

Recently, there has been quite a big hoo-hah about how Crocs, toilet paper and even potted plants are actually cakes. If you have not seen them, you can feast your eyes on these amazingly realistic cakes here. Apparently, these fondant cakes, which have spawned the meme of 2020, were made by a Turkish chef named Tuba Geckil.

Japanese confectionery shop Sweets Paradise has joined the #EverythingIsCake bandwagon, making a range of Japanese delicacies that are amazingly made entirely of cake.

For example, this “five-piece nigiri sushi set” sells at 1,080yen (about S$14). Sweets Paradise specialises in these out-of-the-ordinary cakes, so the ebi (shrimp), ikura (salmon roe), maguro (tuna), ika (squid) and salmon you see in the photos are actually mini cakes!

Not only is the seafood cake, Sweets Paradise has even created a granular texture for the “rice”, complete with matcha cream for the “wasabi” and slices of sweetened citrus fruit for the “pickled ginger”.

If nigiri is not your kind of sushi — uh, we mean cake, Sweets Paradise also has an onigiri version, with a variety of fillings like matcha, strawberry and melon. They are priced at 200yen (about S$2.60) each, while a set of five costs 980yen.

For those who cannot take “raw food”, you would be happy to know that Sweets Paradise also has gyoza (pan-fried dumplings), ramen, katsudon (pork cutlet rice) and even cup noodles! (Yes, these are all cakes.)

Life among this coronavirus pandemic would have been a lot more colourful and fanciful if we had access to these fondant cakes too, don’t you think?