Trending Food: Is It Cake? And is that $48 for a mini bag cake at new Cotelato cafe?

The finishing touches of gold are hand painted on Cotelato's handbag cake which has a brownie filling. ST PHOTO: EUGENE TAN
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SINGAPORE – Remarkably life-like cakes on the second season of Netflix series Is It Cake, Too? have had viewers scratching their heads over their indistinguishable resemblance to real objects like cushions and lampshades. 

In the American cooking show (2022 to present), 10 contestants – all skilled cake artists by profession – are tasked to replicate everyday items in edible cake form to fool a panel of judges.

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