With judging on British Baker’s National Cupcake Championships under way, along comes a cupcake-maker with a product that has a distinctly synthetic aftertaste and a disclaimer that "the product is not edible". The Bath Cakery is not a cakery in Bath, but rather one with a strapline, ’Have your cake and bathe in it!’ Yes, for cupcake fans it’s a cake to rub on one’s body in the privacy of the bathroom, without a nagging sense of guilt.

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