Pumpkin pie!

Ice cream!

Fried chicken, coated peanuts, fish jam, Tim Spam

Taco pizza, mash and ham, meatloaf in a strudel in a can

Covered green and no patrines, that's charcoal and butter beans

Mmm, delicious

Hang on, what is this?

This is my fake food workshop

No chance of lunch then

You guys have actually stitched me up here haven't you, they're all fake

Oh it's real, wow

No way, look at that

Meet Kerry, she's a fake food artist

And you might have seen her work without even realising

I got an enquiry from Warner Brothers and it was for the Barbie movie

They were after some ice creams, could I send out a few?

I just designed this little cone with the raspberry ripple and the raspberry in

I sent them off a few and they came back and said we loved them

Can we have a bigger order?

I had no idea that it was going to be such a big hit

All my ice cream, Ken

Alright Ken, you're on

Must be chaff

Kids went along and they came back and they said, ooh your ice cream's in the film

It was exciting

Not all Kerry's orders are quite as straightforward

We got an enquiry from Netflix, they were doing a premiere for The Gentleman

And they wanted a jelly with a gun inside the jelly

And the unique requests don't stop there

She's also covered the ceiling of a superyacht in cakes

And recreated all sorts of historical dishes

From centrepieces to stomach churning side dishes

What was that one about the croissant that looked like a, what was it, a squirrel?

So we had an enquiry about, could we make a croissant that looked like a squirrel?

Was it successful?

No, I mean we didn't, we just said no

A lot of our orders are client based

And inspiration for new pieces can come from just something quite simple

Like a trip to a baker's

Just have to walk literally around the corner to find inspiration

It's used by the film industry, the food industry, theatres

And then we have people that collect fake food

We're talking about adding to their collection

People have fake flowers in their homes, why not fake food?

Kerry's path to food fraudery actually makes a lot of sense

Pretty much all my working life has been making replicas of some sorts

I started out carving stone, I went on to make furniture

Work in stone conservation, I learned a little bit of taxidermy

And then combined that weird set of skills into making fake food

My dad was an artist, when I was a girl my playground was his workshop

From being quite young I learnt how to use saws and nail guns

And it was a magical place where anything seemed possible

I would spend every holiday with my grandma

It was just the two of us and it was set days

So Monday was wash day, Tuesday was market day

And Friday was baking for the Saturday

That was my introduction to making food

That one's given me some glare, you know

I don't know what to do now then

Are you joking?

Before a game of real or fake, time to see where the magic happens

This is a pastry case and we're just going to make some custard with jesmonite

Jesmonite is composite material, it's an acrylic stone

I'm going to try and mimic the texture of custard

Doesn't that look good?

A lot of what we do is measuring and mixing

Just like when we're making cakes

We made this by first cooking it with pastry

In a traditional raised pine mould

Bringing it back to our workshop, making this silicone mould

And then casting in jesmonite

And then we're just going to pop this open

Find a piece of jesmonite

And then we're just going to pop this open

Find, hopefully, another intact pie

Ready to paint

And then we just carefully peel back the silicone

And the lovely thing about making the original first with pastry

Is that it picks up all of the imperfections

Which, in a way, adds to the realism

The bird's foot is a resin cast

Made from an original claw that I've had in my library

Of bird's feet, always a bit stinky actually

This is what you get, and then it's all hand-painted

And then we just pop them in

Now Kerry's revealed her secrets

Can the GBS team guess if it's real or fake?

I won't touch them

Because that seems like it would be cheating

That one's got crumbs on top

So that one's quite fluffy

But that pork pie looks a bit too perfect

And it seems like it's got a little nibble in there

Which could have been added in post

I'm going to say the pork pie's fake

Oh, it's real!

I mean, it's real

So it's that one then

There you go

If I was going to pick out a real one

I think I would go for the chocolate finger

It's bourbon or chocolate finger I think are real

You never see a perfect bourbon, it just doesn't exist

So I think that's real because there's loads of cracks on it

No way, look at that

It smells real though

Is it real?

It smells like bourbon

It's not real either

I don't know what to do now then

I don't know how many fakes there are

I'm going to guess the pie ring's fake then as well

Well, okay, that's right

I'm going to just guess they're all fake at this point

That's fake

That is fake

That looks fairly real

But it's not

See, I reckon the pretzel's real

Is that real?

Real

Basically, I don't know anything about biscuits

Is what I've come to conclusion on

I think you've tricked me here

I think they're all the same

Okay, this one

I was actually going to eat that

This one could be, again, it's missing a few on the top

Are you joking?

You guys have actually stitched me up here, haven't you?

They're all fake

I think these are all fake

Is there actually a real one?

I think this one's...

No?

Well, no, I guessed that one, it was fake

No?

Oh, yeah, this one I thought was real, it's fake

This one's giving me a funny look

Hey!

Finally!

What was that?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Brilliant

Has that been handled, Lodge?

Yeah

Kerry definitely won that game

But turns out we're not the only ones falling for her tricks

In the early days, I used to love to prank my kids

So I'd leave something on the table

Like a sausage roll or a sweet treat

But they're kind of immune to it now

Or they might just walk past and go,

Can I eat that?

Disappointed toons

And not even the seagulls are safe