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Until now, it was only your shoes that bit into your feet. But thanks to Debbie Goard, you can avenge that and how!

The 45-year old Ms Goard from Oakland, California, a baker by profession, has been baking and icing the show-stopping, eye-catching replicas of footwear for over a decade now.

The stunning looking edible shoes, priced above $350 each, take hours of painstaking preparation and the end result is a deliciously mind-blowing as it can get.

'The idea that someone would want to eat their shoe has always seemed a bit odd to me. 'Shoes are really like every day sculptures, and some people truly revere their shoe collections. These cakes tend to be amongst the most technical designs, not at all unlike the car cakes I make. I try to work from templates or blueprints to get them as accurate as possible, and I fully research each design. By the end of some projects I have become an erstwhile expert on the subject. Most of my shoe cakes start around $350 and go up based on the complexity of the shoe and the servings required,' she reveals.

From trainers to elegant designer labels, these baked shoe cakes have 'hopped from pavement to plate'.

Debbie has baked and styled a slew of edible life size shoe-cake — from the sleek Louboutin Bibi Pump to the chunky Jordan Retro.

The Louboutin Bibi Pump, made entirely of fondant, took almost a week to get completed and was designed as part of a birthday cake presentation.

The Jordan Retro, also made for a birthday celebration, was made with cake, butter cream and fondant.

'The first Louboutin Bibi Pump I made was quite a learning experience. Closed shoes create unique challenges because, as convincing as the final product hopefully is, it's still an edible product and sugar does not behave at all like leather,' she revealed.

'Personally, I'm not able to have a closet full of designer shoes, but I can make a nice sugar facsimile.'

With over 2000 cakes to her credit, Ms Goard has been into this business for more than two decades and has styled her cakes on almost everything — from road kill to a Big Mac.

'People can't believe my work is a cake when they first see it,' says Debbie. 'And the reaction is universally "that's a cake?!"'

Content and Image Source: The Daily Mail

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