I used to have a cake decorating business and got some mighty strange requests! For a long time cakes covered in naked ladies were very popular (40 ladies instead of candles for a 40th birthday etc.) They were always multi ethnic and all shapes and sizes, they were quite fun to start with but I got heartily sick of them as the years went by! Now,the naked men were much more interesting .... apparently people used to fight over the one with a knot tied in it! They were certainly a talking point at parties. My husband's favourite was a silver tankard, with naked ladies diving and swimming in the foaming beer, for a landlord who was retiring

I used to try and find out as much as I could about the person the cake was for, so they could be as individual as poss. One of the most bizarre was an ashtray, complete with dimps, cos when I asked what the octengenarian did, I was told "nothing except smoke!" Apparently he thought the joke the hilarious, especially as somebody used it before there was a chance to cut it!

Although I too have never made a sewage plant cake, I have made some very individual wedding cakes. One couple had a white mini as they'd met when the groom answered an advert in the newspaper when the bride was selling her car. Then there was the ski slope cake, the scuba diving cake, the Tyne Bridge, the rugby scrums, the electric guitar, the WW2 bomber, the nurses uniform..........

Sue vG