When Francesca Pitcher's reptile-mad daughter Claudia begged her for a spooky-themed birthday party, she knew exactly how to make the day extra ssspecial.
So the 37-year-old, from Maidstone, Kent, did what any mother would for their little girl... and decided to bake a birthday snakE.
She spent three days whisking, beating and carving delicate sponge layers into a lifelike albino Burmese Python for the six-year-old's big day.
And when she finally brought out the white-chocolate masterpiece at the party, guests weren't sure if it was a snake or a cake.
Francesca, who bizarrely has a phobia of snakes, baked the equivalent of six sponge cakes before carving and sculpting them into the slinky appearance of the python, one of the most lethal non-venomous snakes in the world.
The 37-year-old spent a painstaking 12 hours decorating the unlikely birthday cake until it looked like a convincing albino Burmese python.
She used a white chocolate fondant and applied a special dye to make the skin and replicate the distinctive markings of the dangerous snake.
Despite its realistic appearance, Claudia and her 26 friends loved the cake and fought over who was going to eat the head.
But some of their parents were left 'freaked out' by it.
Mum-of-two Francesca, a professional cake-maker from Maidstone, Kent, said: 'I made the cake for my daughter's sixth birthday party.
'We had recently been to the zoo and I asked her what cake she wanted for her birthday, and suggested a snake, which I immediately regretted because I have a real phobia of them.
'But Claudia said she wanted it to scare her friends as it was going to be a spooky themed party.
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