Sharjah24 – Reuters: An aspiring Egyptian baker has made a cake resembling a vaccine vial, which she delivered to patients fighting the coronavirus pandemic at a Cairo hospital on Monday (January 25).
The grey and white cake with the words "coronavirus vaccine" glued on top with edible sugar sheets and fondant was meant to give coronavirus patients a "glimmer of hope" that the pandemic will soon be over especially now that countries around the world have started vaccinating their populations.
"I got the idea of making this cake since it's been a year since the coronavirus pandemic and now the vaccine is being distributed around the world. I liked to do this cake to give hope to patients fighting coronavirus, something to make them happy, something as simple as this to give them hope," said Amy Ezzat, who baked the cake.
The three-layer vanilla sponge cake, filled with raspberry cream with a chocolate ganache coating took Ezzat three days to make and decorate, after which she boxed and delivered it to the May 15 hospital in Cairo's Helwan neighborhood that has since the start of the pandemic been used as a quarantine hospital.
Egypt has recorded a total of 161,817 cases, including 8,959 deaths, since the pandemic started.
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