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13. Wow! Bride cake by AnneMary’s Bake Hut

12. Let’s pray for this wonderful cake Couple’s cake by Helado Delicia This cake is huge step up form the now ubiquitous couple-on-the-cake cake. And we are loving it.

11. Beads on a pillow Beaded pillow cake by Helado Delicia This cake is saying to you: “You deserve good things in life.” Believe it!

10. Red is for love Wrapper cake by Dripples Cakes This cake is like beautifully wrapped gift that you should give yourself on your wedding day.

9. The crown A beautiful cake by Dripples Cake The crown makes the cake.

9. Gravity-defying palm wine cake Palm wine cake This cake seems a bit everywhere in inspiration and logic but does not make it any less beautiful.

8. Wrappers for the princess Wrapper cake by Dripples Cakes Another cake you could almost wear – that is the fondant does not break in your hands. The detail on the crown is “befitting”.

8. Wrappers for the princess Wrapper cake by Dripples Cakes Another cake you could almost wear – that is the fondant does not break in your hands. The detail on the crown is “befitting”.

7. A cake fit for a prince Fez hat topped isia agu cake by the Empress Galleria This groom’s cake should make you feel like a king even if you are not one.

6. Bride price come alive Here is the box of clothes, the jewelry box filled with pretty beads – did you ask for a wristwatch? There you go. The sparkly silver wrapper under the jewelry box – no words!

5. If I were a bride… Isi agu cloth and box cake by the Empress Galleria If this were my bridal cake, I would willingly pack it up and go to my husband’s house. The isi agau detail on the cloth in the box is everything!

4. A crown fit for a princess Masterpiece by the Empress Galleria That white crown is everything, complemented beautifully by the cloth on the box. And the box! This cake does not deserve to be eaten.

3. A touch of Benin and Ghana Kente cloth cake by the Empress Galleria This Kente cloth decorated with a Benin staff is everything. Check out the details on the lace “George” and the sheen on the bead – so shiny you almost want to wear it.

2. A groom’s cake to beat all groom’s cakes Art by the Empress Galleria Inspired by the traditional male outfit in the Niger Delta and parts of Eastern Nigeria, this cake is so realistic that you can almost imagine it on former President Goodluck Jonathan. Check out the gold-tipped staff.

1. Is this a treasure chest or cake? Art by Dripples Cakes This cake is so stunning that it trended on Instagram for days and gained its maker many new followers on the social media site.

For most cake makers these days, baking a cake for a traditional
wedding or engagement is a time to show off your creativity. Nigerian bakers are not smiling as they dish out one imagination-fulfilling cake after another. Some of these cakes shaped in the form of folded clothes, shoes, beads, fez caps etc. are so realistic that you are almost tempted to touch them, unfold them and wear them. So I went trawling on Instagram to get you some of the best cakes that would not only have you drooling with longing but leave your mouth agape with wonder – how do they do it?!
Check out some of these crazy
beautiful cakes from the Empress
Galleria, Dripples Cakes and Helado
Delicia. These are just a smattering of
samples from just a few of Nigeria’s
innovative bakers. There are more out
there. So when it is time for your
traditional wedding, don’t just settle for
your run-off-the-mill couple on a cake,
hand bag cakes – aim high! Think of a masterpiece that would not only make your guests green with envy but would have your kids wishing they were at your wedding when they see the wedding pictures. Check out these not-just-cakes these wonderful works of art below for inspiration.

We live in a world full of mysteries, sure there are lot more people with supernatural powers not yet known

12. Stomach of Steel – Michael Lotito

On the list of things you should never ever try at home, replicating Michael Lotito’s appetite for indigestible objects should be right at the top. The French entertainer is known for consuming objects made of metal, glass, rubber, and plastic and doesn’t seem to have any serious intestinal or digestive difficulties afterwards. His greatest feat is probably dismantling and progressively consuming an aircraft over the course of two years. The secret lies in Michael Lotito’s intestinal walls which happen to be twice as thick as they should be. His stomach acids are also unusually powerful, allowing him to digest these hazardous objects, seemingly without complications. I’m just wondering what the plumbing
situation is like in Michael’s house. Does
he have to get a professional to unclog the pipes every month because I expect it would be filled with everything and the kitchen sink.

11. The One Who Never Sleeps – Hai Ngoc

Have you ever tried staying awake for
more than 48 hours? I have, and it’s not a pleasant experience. One night of no
sleep can send people rushing to the
coffee machines and guzzling down cans of Red Bull just to stay awake, but that isn’t the case for Hai Ngoc, the man who hasn’t slept a wink since 1973! According to Ngoc, who is probably Freddy Kruger’s worst nightmare, a fever in 1973 caused him to lose the need to sleep indefinitely. What’s even more incredible is the clean bill of health he was given by doctors, except for a slight decline in liver function which is quite normal for his age. The
elderly man even farms and carries two
50kg bags of fertilizer over 4km of road
every day. If that doesn’t spell good
health, I don’t know what does.

10. Jaws of Steel –
Rathakrishnan Velu

I can’t imagine what kind of
strength it takes Malaysian-born
Rathakrishnan Velu to pull two KTM
commuter trains, weighing 260.8 tons
(574,964lb) for a distance of 4.2m (13ft
9in) along the Kuala Lumpur Railway
Station lines. Rathakrishnan, now affectionately known as “King Tooth”, claims that an Indian guru taught him how to channel all his strength to a specific part of his body when he was
14. I don’t know about you, but I’m very
curious to know if this special technique
applies to any part of the body… you
know, for research purposes.

9. The Iceman – Wim Hof

While others will have to stock on
layers of vests, jackets, and other clothing to keep warm when trying to climb mountains like Everest or Kilimanjaro, Dutch daredevil Wim Hof did those seemingly daunting tasks wearing nothing but a pair of shorts.
According to Hof, a Buddhist meditation
technique called Tummo allows him to
regulate his body’s temperature, which in turn allows him to keep warm while
enduring freezing conditions. Wim Hof
currently holds 21 endurance world
records as well as the record for longest
ice bath.

8. Hyper Photographic Memory – Stephen Wiltshire

If you haven’t seen some of Stephen
Wiltshire’s artwork, you need to do so…
right after reading this article, because
you don’t want to miss the rest of the
superhumans we have in store.
Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artist who can draw intricately-detailed aerial
landscapes of any city that he flies over.
All it takes for Wiltshire is a brief
helicopter ride over any city, and his
highly-developed photographic memory
will allow him to recreate the image with jaw-dropping accuracy. For instance, in his panoramic drawing of Rome, he recreated the precise number of columns in the Pantheon!

7. The Human Computer – Shakuntala
Devi

The late great Shakuntala Devi is proof
that the human brain is capable of
extraordinary feats, like solving extremely complex arithmetical equations faster than some computers. At the University of California Berkley, Shakuntala was asked by Professor Arthur Jensen to calculate the cube root of 61,629,875, and the seventh root of 170,859,375. To the professor’s shock, Shakuntala delivered her answers (395 and 15, respectively) even before Jensen could copy them down in his notebook!

6. Seeing Music –Arthur Lintgen

Most people will find it hard to read and
write a second language, especially if it
has a different set of alphabets. However, American physician Arthur Lintgen can read the grooves on old phonograph and precisely tell you what music is on it. How’s that for an ability?
Arthur can also look at the grooves and
contours on a phonograph and tell if the
music is played loud or soft within a
matter of seconds. But Arthur Lintgen
doesn’t claim any superhuman powers.
He makes it very clear that his ability is
limited to music by and after Beethoven. When asked to identify an Alice Cooper album, Arthur said it “looked disorganised” and “like gibberish”. Nevertheless, the ability to look at grooves on a record and know what music is about to be played is an amazing talent and is a testament to both Arthur’s memory and the incredible ways one’s brain can decipher information.

5. The Animal Whisperer – Kevin Richardson

You’ve seen Cesar Milan the dog
whisperer, but in all due respect, Kevin
Richardson is on a whole other level.
Kevin is a South African animal
behaviourist who has been accepted into several prides of lions and hyena clans. He basically eats, sleeps, and plays with these animals as if they were his family. Kevin strongly believes in intuition when dealing with these wild animals, instead of basing his actions on rule books. He is known for treating the lions and other animals as sentient beings, often showing them respect and nurturing a sense of family instead of imposing dominance unto them. But, Kevin warns that the job does have
its dangers and advises people not to
follow in his footsteps without the proper training and guidance. Much like Chris Pratt’s character imprinting on the
newborn Velociraptors in Jurassic World,
Kevin Richardson is only social with
animals that were with him since they
were very young. And even then, he has
been scratched, punctured, and injured
while handling the animals, although
never in a malicious way.

4. Sonar Vision –
Daniel Kish and Ben Underwood

You know how Daredevil is able to “see”
and gauge his surroundings even though he’s technically blind? Like a bat, he’s able to see shapes and objects as sound bounces off them, giving him sonar vision. Daniel Kish and Ben Underwood both possess the same ability, and are able to use echolocation to such a degree that they’re able to “see” using sound even though they’ve both been blind since childhood. Both Daniel Kish and Ben Underwood had their eyes removed early on in life due to cancer. But in a strange turn of events, their sense of sound seemed to have been dialed up to 11. Using a series of clicking noises with their tongue, both Daniel and Ben are able to
use echolocation, an ability used by bats and whales, to lead normal lives. In fact, Daniel Kish is so good at it that he’s often hired by other blind people to assist them in getting around.
Sadly, Ben Underwood passed away in
2009 due to a re-emergence of the same cancer that cost him his eyes, leaving Daniel Kish as the only known human being in the world who has the ability to use echolocation.