Debbie Goard of Debbie Does Cakes has created a number of amazing baked goods, including Star Wars Jedi cakes, and now she's baked this standing donkey cake surrounded by "strawberries."
The ears on the 20-inch-tall donkey cake are remarkable because they are so thin, but hold their pose perfectly. I'm thinking that if Debbie does donkey cakes, maybe she does elephant cakes. They'd make great political party partners.
Implications - Baking has become a unique art form. No longer are cookie-cutter tiered cakes acceptable and bakeries are now pushing the limits on their designs. By using paints, fondant and other tools, they transform this edible sculpture into true art. This also serves as a way to bring business to the shop as consumers want similar style cakes.
Beast of Burden Baked Goods
Debbie Does Cakes Creates a Standing Donkey Cake
Trend Themes
1. Edible Sculpture Cakes - Bakeries have shifted from cookie-cutter tiered cakes to creating unique designs using fondant, paints, and other tools, providing a disruptive innovation opportunity for the bakery industry to showcase their creativity and attract customers.
2. Realistic Animal Cakes - The creation of animal cakes such as a standing donkey cake serves as a trend that provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for bakeries to experiment with new concepts and design realistic animal cakes to attract animal lovers and garner attention on social media.
3. Political-themed Cakes - Creating elephant or donkey cakes can serve as a new trend for bakeries to attract political parties that require creative and unique designs that represent their party, providing a disruptive innovation opportunity for the bakery industry to collaborate and create custom cakes for political events.
Industry Implications
1. Bakery - The bakery industry can capitalize on this trend towards unique and artistic edible sculptures to attract more customers and showcase their creativity, thereby disrupting traditional bakery practices.
2. Animal-themed Shops - A new industry of animal-themed bakeries or cake shops could emerge to capitalize on the trend of realistic animal cakes, providing a disruptive innovation opportunity to offer specialty products and services that cater to animal lovers.
3. Political Event Planning - A new industry of political-themed cake designers or bakeries could emerge as a result of the trend towards creating elephant and donkey cakes for political events, providing a disruptive innovation opportunity to create custom products that cater to this market.