Inside a glass cabinet at the Melbourne Royal Show there’s an entire charcuterie board, a Sunbeam Mixmaster, a giant ladybug and a zeitgeisty beef Wellington, pastry gleaming in the sunlight. Except it’s not a beef Wellington at all, it’s one of the prize-winning cakes in the decorated cakes competition at the show. A cake decorated to look like Beef Wellington by Julia Bourke won third prize at the Melbourne Royal Show. on which contestants create hyperrealistic replicas of everyday objects and judges have to guess which are real and which are actually cake. The Melbourne Royal Show’s cake decorating competition has been running since 1911, and head steward Susan Campbell Wright says that from the very beginning there have always been some “creative” entrants.