Everything seems to be cake these days. If you doubt us, check this out.
Dear Baker, here are 5 things you dare not turn to cake for Nigerians
Open letter to Nigerian bakers/food artiste: No go dey do pass yourself.
Birth cake [Cafe mom]
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Done with that? Now go on, check the one below this paragraph, too. You know, for confirmation that food artists are really doing the most.
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Because we know that some Nigerian bakers are seeing all of these and are starting to get ideas, we, being the good samaritans that we are, decided to write this quick open letter to inform them to not go and be doing more than themselves
5 things you dare not turn to cake for Nigerians.
1. Baby head cake:
![Birth cake [Cafe mom]](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20width%3D'380'%20height%3D'380'%20data-ring-placeholder%3D'1'%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E "Birth cake [Cafe mom]")
Birth cake [Cafe mom]
Cafe mom
So someone orders a baby shower cake and tells you to freestyle and this is what you want to come up with? For a Nigerian mom who likely believes in omens and all? Lmao. Are you OK? You want a mother to cut her unborn baby up with a knife?
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2. Rat:
![[Credit - Flickr]](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20width%3D'790'%20height%3D'593'%20data-ring-placeholder%3D'1'%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E "[Credit - Flickr]")
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Rats? As in, Ekute? Of all the things to be creative with, it’s rat you chose? Good luck finding customers after that.
3. Quran:
Someone already made this mistake a while back and the backlash was mad. You better don’t use your own hand to bake problem for yourself.
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4. Snake:
![[Credit - The Great British Cake Off]](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20width%3D'450'%20height%3D'450'%20data-ring-placeholder%3D'1'%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E "[Credit - The Great British Cake Off]")
[Credit - The Great British Cake Off]
The Great British Cake Off
This one is 50/50 sha as some people consider real snakes a special delicacy. We’ve heard that it looks and tastes yum inside Egusi soup. So baking snake cake for such people might work.
5. A dead man:
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You actually must be interested in self-destrcution to even think this will be acceptable by a grieving Nigerian family.
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