Keith Scovell, 55, who lives in Kentish Town, created the cake – and other caricature-style creations of various celebrities including US President-elect Donald Trump, British band Oasis, and the King and Queen.
The HR consultant said he enjoys seeing “people smile and laughing” and loves cakes with “auras” that look “off-beat”.
The amateur baker has been making his unique cakes since before the coronavirus pandemic, but only started posting his creations on social media at the end of last year.
His videos have been a hit with social media users, with his most recent Winkleman creation earning nearly 200,000 views and more than 30,000 likes – and counting – on TikTok.
Keith Scovell’s caricature cake of Claudia Winkleman (Image: Keith Scovell/PA Wire)
Mr Scovell said: “I love Claudia, by the way, and I love the Traitors; I can’t get enough of it.
“I thought, actually, how characteristic her face is – the hair, the eyes, the smile – and then I just thought, actually, could I recreate that?”
“My cakes, to be honest with you, they’re just my imagination going a bit crazy.”
The cake features an abnormally large mouth spanning the width of Winkleman’s face, with stark white teeth made of Tic Tacs, and thick black icing to create both her famous fringe haircut and the dark eyeliner around her eyes.
He credits his ability to lip read as helping him create his striking cake designs.
“I think I’ve got a knack of looking at people’s faces because I was born almost deaf, so I do have a huge hearing (impairment),” he explained.
“I think because I’ve learned to lip read and learn people’s facial expressions and their faces I think that’s how you can pick up a point on somebody’s face, so that’s your reference.”
Mr Scovell said he only makes cakes for his friends and family, including a Taylor Swift cake – complete with fizzy cola flavoured straw sweets for hair, pink icing for skin and massive fingers to hold her microphone – for his niece’s 18th birthday.
His cakes take around two to three hours to create plus the standard cooking time for a simple Victoria sponge, which is the base for all his creations.
He admits his baking skills are “very basic” and joked his cakes “look weird but it’s edible”.
He said he was initially daunted by the traction he was receiving on social media but quickly realised “the joy I got from seeing people’s faces and reactions is probably worth a million of those cakes”.
He plans to continue making cakes in hopes of making others smile and has urged others to spread positivity on social media.
“At any age, anything you do and it makes you smile, don’t keep it to yourself. Make others smile,” he said.
“If it’s made you smile, it’s going to make someone else smile, so it’s going to make someone’s day.”
