Puneeth, Seven Wonders, or Covid, baker ‘sculpts’ all

Shilpa P.

Mysuru: It’s Christmas and it’s time to relish cakes. In keeping with the pandemic times, a city-based baker has come up with an unique ‘photo cake’ depicting the Omicron variant of the Corona virus and a vaccination syringe, to create awareness on the need to take the jab and protect oneself from the virus.

Mr Mohammed Nizar of Dolphin bakery, Mysuru has come up with this unique cake weighing 10 kg. Along with this, he has come up with a nine feet tall wedding cake weighing 360 kg and small cakes modelled on Santa Claus and snowmen too. The special cakes have been displayed at his bakery which is designed like a double decker bus, behind Mysuru palace.

The baker has also come up with a seven feet tall cake model of Puneeth Rajkumar weighing 120 kg, and a three feet tall bust of Dr Rajkumar weighing 80kg. These cakes of the actors are being sent from Mysuru to a ten day cake expo hosted at an exhibition in Jnanakshi convention hall in Hassan.

Mr Nizar is known for coming up with such unique cake models in Mysuru during Christmas. He has earlier come up with cake models of the Seven wonders of the world, India Gate, the Silver jubilee clock tower of Mysuru, Vidhana Soudha and others besides those of actor Ambareesh and former Mysuru scion Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar.

Also Loyal World super market in Mysuru has come up with a flea market for Christmas where people can enjoy more than 100 varieties of cakes. “We have even come up with a 1600 kg cake based on the theme of Christmas at our branch in Whitefield in Bengaluru,” said, Director of Loyal World, Mr Mohammed.