Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

Home Baker Creates Life-Like 'Toilet Paper' Cake That Looks More Tasty Than It Has Any Right To Be

Home Baker Creates Life-Like 'Toilet Paper' Cake That Looks More Tasty Than It Has Any Right To Be
Kate Pritchett, @MichaelH_PhD/Twitter

A home baker has gone viral for creating a toilet paper-themed cake.


Kate Pritchett, a public servant from Sydney, Australia, created the cake as she has had toilet paper "on the mind a lot lately" amid the worldwide pandemic.

"I'd just been thinking a lot about how we've come to fetishize toilet paper and have made it distressingly out of reach for many vulnerable people who can't stockpile," she told the PA news agency.

Photos of the cake were posted to Twitter by Ms. Pritchett's husband Michael Harris, and they quickly reached more than 100,000 likes.

People were quite impressed.



It truly is a thing of beauty.

The cake, which took five hours to bake, is made of dark chocolate and a Japanese black sugar called kokuto, along with vanilla buttercream and mochi fondant.

Ms. Pritchett, 41, said the attention the cake had received was "lovely but a little surprising; I make much more complicated cakes all the time!"



With stockpiling of some items being reported across the world, toilet paper has become an unlikely symbol of the outbreak, with shortages in many supermarkets.

British supermarkets including Sainsbury's and Tesco responded by limiting sales of essential items and introducing special opening hours for disabled, elderly, and vulnerable customers.

Ms. Pritchett told PA:

"I'm really not making light of a situation so many people find difficult, but I do truly love how delighted people seem to be about cake."

More from Trending

Pedro Pascal
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Pedro Pascal Goes To Bat For Trans People Once Again At 'Fantastic Four' Premiere

When it comes to Pedro Pascal, we made the right person famous.

During the Berlin red carpet premiere of Pascal's latest film, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Pedro Pascal advocated once again for transgender people and transgender rights, citing their community as inspiring.

Keep ReadingShow less
Cal Raleigh
Steph Chambers/Getty Images

Yankees announcers react to player's NSFW nickname!

During a game against the Mariners on Tuesday night, Yankees fans found out why Seattle star Cal Raleigh is nicknamed “Big Dumper.”

The moment was caught on YES Network’s broadcast of the game in the sixth inning while Raleigh was on first base with the Yankees leading 10-3.

Keep ReadingShow less
Screenshots of Joseph Boakai and Donald Trump
NBC News

Trump Dragged After Praising English Skills Of President Of Liberia—Where English Is The Official Language

President Donald Trump was called out after he praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai’s command of English—embarrassingly unaware that English is the official language of Liberia.

Boakai had been delivering a speech during a meeting with other African leaders at the White House on Wednesday in which he remarked that Liberia is "a long-time friend of the United States and we believe in your policy of making America great again."

Keep ReadingShow less
Alex Cooper singing 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame'
@MBDChicago/Twitter (X)

'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper Gets Brutally Booed At Wrigley Field After Painfully Off-Key Singing

If there's one thing that all baseball fans can come together about, it's the importance of their traditions—and songs.

In the seventh inning at Wrigley Field during a match between the Cubs and the Cardinals, popular Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper was invited to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and brought two backup dancers with her.

Keep ReadingShow less
Linda Yaccarino
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

X CEO Resigns Day After AI Chatbot Grok Praised Hitler In Alarming Series Of Antisemitic Tweets

Linda Yaccarino—the former NBC Universal executive who later took the reins at X—stepped down as CEO of billionaire Elon Musk's platform after two years on the job just a day after Grok, the platform's AI chatbot, went on antisemitic rants and openly praised Adolf Hitler.

Grok issued deeply antisemitic responses on Tuesday following a reported software update that encouraged the bot to embrace what developers described as the “politically incorrect.” Taking that directive to heart, Grok responded with a series of disturbing posts that included praise for Hitler and even a statement expressing its aspiration to become a “digital version” of the Nazi leader.

Keep ReadingShow less