⁍ A bakery studio in Hong Kong is aiming to bounce back from its COVID-19 slump with ‘illusion cakes’
Dear Harley Cake Studio’s founders Alison Chan and Cony Lam came up with the idea after baking a custom cake for Chan’s nephew.

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⁍ posting such creations on social media brought a new wave of customers to their shop.

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⁍ Now they can make-to-order cakes that look uncannily like almost anything.

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– When Alison Chan and Cony Lam of Hong Kong opened Dear Harley Cake Studio, they didn’t set out to make anything out of the ordinary. “We were just making things that we love, we love baking, we love cake decorating, and we are just making things for fun,” Chan tells Reuters. But after whipping up a custom cake for Chan’s nephew, who loves bananas, and posting it on social media, they got a new wave of customers. “This illusion cake wave is … kind of saving our business,” Chan says. Customers have been ordering everything from flip-flops to sushi cakes, and Chan and Lam are teaching cake illusionists how to make their own. “I’m personally super thrilled that we have reached this stage,” Chan says. “We never expected that this will blow up.”