While working on this month's saints calendar, I stumbled across this:


It's a cake celebrating the encounter between the Loch Ness Monster and St Columba, the sixth-century Irish saint who converted the Picts. (More on him in the December calendar.)

The baker responsible for this sugar-crafted cuteness, Lucy Shaw, made the cake for her son Columba's christening party. And while edible hagiography isn't the only thing she does, she does do it awesomely. Here's her Joan of Arc, for instance:


And here's her St. Francis of Assisi:

Anyone have a kid named Bartholomew who needs christening? I'd love to see a cute little marzipan saint carrying his own flayed (marzipan) skin in his arms.