Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow cake baked for competition

A woman has baked an "almost life-sized" cake showing Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, for a baking competition.

Lara Clarke from Brownhills, West Midlands, made the Pirates of the Caribbean-style treat for Birmingham's Cake International competition.

She said: "The judges are probably more used to seeing three-tier wedding cakes than giant Jack Sparrows."

Lara says she only started baking two years ago.

"All I'd really made before was some bog-standard banana cake in home economics," she said.

"The first time I baked a decorated cake was for my mother-in-law's 25th wedding anniversary. I thought it was rubbish but everybody else seemed to like it."

Since then, Ms Clarke has baked cakes for family and friends.

She's also made a 4ft (1.2m) Grinch cake, a motorbike and a Kate Middleton cake - but this one of Cap'n Jack is her biggest effort yet.

 

"I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean. I was watching Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp, and I thought he would make the perfect cake.

It took her 90 hours to make.

 

 

 

The Cap'n Jack cake is almost as big as Johnny Depp himself!

 

 

Lara's also baked a Grinch cake!