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Divorce is a piece of cake: Bloodcurdling confections for the newly single

It's the latest craze coming to a bakers near you: 'just divorced' cakes.
These blood-curdling confections would not be out of place in a Chamber of Horrors but they are being made to 'celebrate' the end of a marriage.
Gone are the days when divorce was a source of shame. Now it's kick 'em out and start all over again ... and it seems it is women are doing most of the celebrating.
Many of these sugary dainties feature wives wielding knives in gory post nuptial scenes where the man is often missing either his head or his wedding tackle.
Others show them being pushed over cliffs, being shot or even being buried in the back garden with a wife sitting happily on the turf adding a bag of fertiliser to the makeshift grave.
Like so many other trends, this one started in America - but bakers are reporting an upsurge in requests from British divorcees keen to wash their man right out of their hair.
But, while many bakers are quite happy to create scenes of bloody, many would draw the line at icing anything on the cake as crude as, say, ‘you are a loser'.
One said: "I think that's a bit over the top!"

 

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