Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: London designer Kia Utzon-Frank has created a set of sculptural cakes that look like blocks of solid polished stone.
Utzon-Frank, who is currently a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art, presented the cakes during this year's Clerkenwell Design Week from 24 to 26 May 2016.
To achieve the marble effect, the designer printed a texture onto a sheet of fondant icing before laying it over sponge.
While some of the cakes are cone-shaped and feature geometric decorations, others are spherical and are painted in 24-karat edible gold.
Inside, thin pieces of sponge are layered on top of each other to create a multicoloured gradient effect.

"I found a printer that can print on marzipan and fondant in really high quality so I can print exactly what I want and wrap it around a cake," Utzon-Frank told Dezeen. "For the colours I use natural food colouring and fruit juices, but it takes a lot of tests to get the colours or a gradient right." "The recipe is for a very thin roll cake that I layer with different infused chocolate ganaches and jams and then I can shape it how ever I want," she added. "I almost think that the bottom of the cones are the most beautiful part of the cakes, but you won't see it before it's been cut."

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