Oxford library 'no piece of cake'

The cake has taken 80 hours to make.

Oxford University's world famous library, the Radcliffe Camera has had a makeover - as a cake.

It will take bakers at The Cake Shop in Oxford's covered market 80 hours to make and assemble.

Shop owner Sally Davis said staff had to make sketches and even counted the number of bars on the windows to ensure the cake was made to scale.

She said: "Attention to detail is everything. We try to get as close to it as we can."

Ms Davis, 40, said "We take photos of the building we are commissioned to make a cake of.

"We do a drawing ourselves. We then make sketches. We count everything. If a building has steps, we will count them and make sure the cake has the correct number."

The most expensive cake the team has designed and created cost £2,600 and depicted an Inca Temple.

The Radcliffe Camera cake is being made as a special commission for a customer.