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Check the time and eat it too! This cake is also a clock

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Sara Hay with the cake she sculpted. (Famous Publicity via SWNS)

By Ben Turner via SWNS

A baker has made an extraordinary huge birthday cake for a British inventor - which is also a working clock.

Sara Hay, a specialist cake sculptor, used 17 lb (8 kg) of fondant to perfect the fruit cake, which sits in the middle of the clock measuring 4.9 ft (1.5 meters) across.

John C .Taylor holds up his egg-free cake. (Famous Publicity via SWNS)

“I’ve had dozens of unusual commissions but this one was the most interesting and complicated," saidSara from the Isle of Man.

"I was thrilled with the result and it was a superb combination of extreme cake sculpture, art, design and engineering.”

The unique cake, which was designed to be vertical with several layers to keep it in place, tells the time through blue backlit LEDs.

Sara made the cake for the 85th birthday of inventor Dr. John Taylor OBE and based it on his Dragon Chronophage clock - a successor to his Corpus Clock at Cambridge University, which was hailed as one of the best inventions of 2008.

(Famous Publicity via SWNS).

The Chronophage clock is unique as it has no hands or numerals, but instead displays the time through three rings that illuminate with blue LEDs.

Sara started work on the cake in July and finally finished it this month ahead of Dr Taylor's birthday tomorrow (November 25).

"We started with a design in July and finished in November," she said.

"There was fantastic teamwork, so much so that the ChronoCake had its own WhatsApp group."

(Famous Publicity via SWNS).

The clock, which used several layers to keep it in place as it is displayed vertically, is topped with a blue and red Chinese dragon made out of icing.

Dr. Taylor said: "I’m absolutely blown away because it’s not only a cake, it tells the time."

He added that it was a near-replica to his Dragon Chronophage clock, which sits at his home in the Isle of Man.

"It’s got a dragon on the top which is virtually identical to the true dragon and it’s a cake. It’s absolutely wonderful," Taylor said.

"They’ve made the most incredible fifth Chronophage. It’s a working clock that does tricks."

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