Make the real life "Willy Wonka" who makes hyper-realistic cakes of household objects - including toilet plungers, razors and Crocs.<br /><br />Jonny Manganello, 32, has been baking incredible cakes for the past four years.<br /><br />He combines his sweet tooth with hyper-realism - making everything from coffee machines and cereal bowels to toilet plungers, rolls and razors and cat food tins.<br /><br />He uses modelling chocolate to sculpt and mould his creations and has made over 200 cakes.<br /><br />Jonny, a baker and content creator originally from Detroit, Michigan, US, said: "There are so many different ways to create beautiful art with cakes. <br /><br />"What I like to do is infuse comedy in my baking. <br /><br />"Whether that was creating a tombstone cake for my friend who was turning 30 or making a Christmas cake with gingerbread men around the cake in various sexual positions - I just want it to be silly and delicious.<br /><br />"I'm a big fan of silly and stupid so I love making cakes that belong in the bathroom - like a plunger, razor or toilet paper.<br /><br />"My recent favourite was the Halloween bucket with the entire thing being edible.<br /><br />"There's a lot of ways to make edible things take on different textures and consistencies.<br /><br />"I've spent the most time on my Wall-E cake - that took a week of eight-hour days - and I joked that the cake went stale.<br /><br />"Baking is a science and an art - people sometimes call me a scientist, others call me a silly real-life Willy Wonka."<br /><br />Whilst trying to find his feet as an actor in Los Angeles, Jonny began nannying for a family and discovered his passion for baking.<br /><br />He said: "Baking fell into my lap in a very unusual way. <br /><br />"I wasn't set out to do this and I didn't even know I could bake. <br /><br />"I was a nanny for these two kids and we'd watch baking shows and I thought I could do it - a lot of false confidence.<br /><br />"So I started baking for them and for the family and things started to get interesting when I started posting online."<br /><br />Jonny follows a complex plan when it comes to creating his cakes.<br /><br />He said: "First, I bake the cakes and create the filling and frosting - which is usually ganache.<br /><br />"Then you stack, frost and fill the cakes.<br /><br />"Then carve in the general shape of the object you're going for - a lot of the tools I use are kitchen staples, like serrated knives, offset spatulas and then some stranger tools - sometimes I find myself at the hardware store.<br /><br />"Then I use modelling chocolate which is like clay - it's a really pliable sweet dough, so you're usually able to mould it to everything you want. <br /><br />"Food realism is great as well - using edible printers so you can print out an exact match of an edible label.<br /><br />"A big part of what I like to do is share the process online. <br /><br />"I want to show how I make it and people can recreate it."<br /><br />The baker has even appeared and competed on the hit Netflix show, 'Is it Cake?' - where contestants were tasked with trying to trick the judges.<br /><br />He said: "I had the most fabulous time.<br /><br />"Something I've always envied is the style of Great British Bake Off as it's not about the drama it's about the creation. <br /><br />"We cared deeply about the work and were really only competitive with ourselves.<br /><br />"It was one of the best months of my life. Everyone who does what I do recognises the absurdity of it. We're all a bit silly."<br /><br />And despite the endless opportunities to do so, Jonny admits he's not yet pranked anyone with his hyper-realistic cakes.<br /><br />He said: "I'm not taking full advantage of my skill-set.<br /><br />"I made a plunger and I was going to put it in my brother's bathroom and see how long it would take him to notice but I never got around to doing that.<br /><br />"I made a cake in the shape of my ear and I was going to play a prank on my mum saying I had an earache and then the ear 'falls' off but I thought it was too mean."
