生日吃"自己"：男孩收到1比1真人版蛋糕

When it comes to birthday treats, most four-year-olds would gleefully try to eat their own bodyweight in cake.
要說生日吃啥大餐，大多數4歲大的孩子恨不得吃下跟自己體重一樣分量的蛋糕。

So for Alfie Rose, it was a dream come true when he was presented with a life-sized replica of himself made from chocolate sponge.
而一個叫Alfie Rose的小男孩竟美夢成真了，因爲他收到了一個按照他的模樣等比例做成的巧克力海綿蛋糕。

It is so realistic, it looks like a waxwork model of the boy himself – only a lot tastier.
這個蛋糕跟Alfie非常形似，像是爲他度身打造的蠟像，只是這個“蠟像”更美味。

The cake weighs two stone and was made from a dozen tiers of sponge which were then coated in chocolate and buttercream icing and airbrushed with edible food colouring.
這個蛋糕重2英石（12.7千克），由很多層海綿蛋糕組成，外面裹上了巧克力醬和奶油糖霜，然後塗上可食用染料。

And because the real Alfie is never far from his favourite monkey cuddly toy, an identical edible monkey forms part of the amazing birthday surprise.
因爲Alfie總是將他最愛的毛絨猴子玩偶帶在身邊，所以一個一模一樣的猴子也成了這份生日驚喜的重要部分。

It took 27-year-old baker Lara Clarke 15 hours to make, and was a gift ordered by Alfie's godmother Tammy Morris, 25, and her husband Stephen, 35.
這個蛋糕由27歲的麪包師Lara Clarke完成，花費了她足足15個小時。訂蛋糕的是Alfie25歲的教母Tammy Morris，以及她35歲的丈夫Stephen。

Alfie's mother Chantelle Rose, 23, said: 'I couldn't believe how amazing the cake looked, and I just cried. Alfie was so happy. He was just screaming and pointing, "It's me, it's me, it's Alfie and monkey".
Alfie的母親Chantelle Rose現年23歲，她說：“我真不敢相信這個蛋糕竟然那麼棒，我都哭了。Alfie看到了非常高興，他一直指着蛋糕尖叫：‘那是我，那真的是我，那是Alfie和他的猴子玩偶。’”