A bakery in San Francisco has gone to painstaking effort to recreate the iconic Cordyceps-infected clickers from The Last Of Us out of, of all things, bread. The end result, officially titled “The Last Of Us Crust,” speaks for itself, no buns intended. Yep, these are terrible, I know.
Created by the One House Bakery, co-owned by Catherine and Hannalee Pervan, the mother-daughter team revealed their love for the HBO adaptation of The Last Of Us and took a crack at sculpting the infected creatures ahead of the 16th annual Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest.
“And let’s be honest,” Pervan admitted. “We also fell in love with Pedro Pascal.”
Cordyceps Bread Sculptures. (Pic: Eater San Francisco / Open House Bakery).
In a report published by Eater San Francisco (H/T Kotaku), the culinary clicker and assorted fungus sculptures made from bread took more than 400 hours to bake and delicately assemble. The bakers wrapped balloons in a delicate layer of dough before baking them to create the infected fungal design.
“When the popped balloon is removed, it leaves behind these really strange pod-like shapes we were able to use,” Catherine revealed.
Previously, the One House Bakery sculpted a Star Wars statue of Han Solo frozen in carbonate – named Pan Solo – and the culinary artwork claimed second place at the same event in 2022. The 2023 run of the Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest takes place on October 23. Here’s hoping they can take home the ultimate prize this year.
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