A talented baker who is renowned for her incredible cakes has created her biggest masterpiece to date - a life-sized version of SHREK.<br /><br />Lara Mason, 39, spent 40 hours crafting the 6.5ft (1.9m) replica of the famous cartoon ogre out of vanilla cake and rich chocolate ganache.<br /><br />The mum-of-two, from Brownhills, near Walsall, said the 400kg cake was so big that most of the decorating process needed to be done while balancing atop a set of ladders.<br /><br />The cake was divided into pieces and donated to foodbanks
