{"id":48053,"date":"2015-05-03T00:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48053"},"modified":"2015-05-03T00:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T16:57:49","slug":"filipino-baker-makes-life-sized-cake-of-pacquiao-to-mark-fight-with-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/03\/filipino-baker-makes-life-sized-cake-of-pacquiao-to-mark-fight-with-mayweather\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino baker makes life sized cake of Pacquiao to mark fight with Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports\">@AP_Sports<\/a> Filipino baker makes life-sized cake of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MannyPacquiao\">@MannyPacquiao<\/a>:<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/B9thncuNW8\">http:\/\/t.co\/B9thncuNW8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MayPac?src=hash\">#MayPac<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/jSaoWrLRKK\">pic.twitter.com\/jSaoWrLRKK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/594527807134392320\">May 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Fans of Manny Pacquiao have a new way of showing how much they love the boxing superstar &#8212; by eating him.<\/p>\n<p>Or a life-size replica cake at least.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Yonzon, his wife Aila, and six of his staff helped finish the 167 cm. (66-in.) chocolate cake on Saturday after working 24 hours at The Bunny Baker cafe in suburban Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>Yonzon says it was his wife&#8217;s idea to bake the cake to commemorate the mega-fight against Floyd Mayweather, which will be on Sunday morning Philippines time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Manny Pacquiao is world class, so we wanted to do something equally world class and the only way to do that is to create a cake that was extraordinary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The cake will be handed out free to customers and friends of the couple after the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old said the biggest challenges were their lack of experience in making life-size statues and formal training in cake design. Getting the likeness right was the easy part for Yonzon, who is a graduate of the Philippine High School for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truth is I get really bored with normal cakes,&#8221; Yonzon told The Associated Press. &#8220;I wanted really something really, really challenging &#8230; and a life-sized Manny cake is about as challenging and exciting as the cakes come and this is a perfect opportunity to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just needed to do something out of the box,&#8221; added the former blogger for AOL.<\/p>\n<p>He said he based the image of Pacquiao, including a tattoo of a glove on the boxer&#8217;s left chest, on pictures available on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The cake is built around a wooden frame covered in cling wrap. He said parts of the head and the arms and the calves were made of Rice Krispies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be interesting to get people&#8217;s reactions cutting and eating Manny Pacquiao,&#8221; he said, laughing. &#8220;My wife said we will start with the torso.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT @AP_Sports Filipino baker makes life-sized cake of @MannyPacquiao:http:\/\/t.co\/B9thncuNW8 #MayPac pic.twitter.com\/jSaoWrLRKK &mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) May 2, 2015 MANILA, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":48156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-food","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}