{"id":122227,"date":"2026-01-06T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122227\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:24:19","slug":"rochester-bakery-unveils-life-sized-cake-of-jahmyr-gibbs-amon-ra-st-brown-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122227\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester bakery unveils life-sized cake of Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions\u2019 season may be over, but that hasn\u2019t stopped a Rochester bakery from capturing its players\u2019 iconic celebrations in the form of cake.<\/p>\n<p>Home Bakery on Monday unveiled a life-sized cake of Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs striking his \u201cSpider-Man x Superman\u201d pose, and wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown hurdling over him. The St. Brown part of the cake is positioned with his arm appearing to go through the front window of the bakery.<\/p>\n<p>The pose was from Gibbs\u2019 Oct. 20 touchdown celebration against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It\u2019s Home Bakery\u2019s second life-sized Detroit Lions cake: last season, it baked a cake of St. Brown\u2019s headstand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The pose) became an iconic moment for the season, much like the headstand did for the previous season. And we love things that challenge us creatively,\u201d said bakery owner Heather Tocco.<\/p>\n<p>Home Bakery doesn\u2019t just do life-sized cakes of Lions players \u2212 Tocco said the bakery has also done cakes for the \u201cBarbie Movie,\u201d \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d \u201cWolverine\u201d and \u201cDeadpool.\u201d The consistent production of life-sized cakes makes them \u201cpretty well-known for over-the-top window displays,\u201d said Tocco.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Lions cakes\" width=\"386\" height=\"554\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TMD-L-LionsCake2-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2659583\" \/>The Detroit Lions season may be over, but their fans continue their praise, this time in the form of a giant cake of the touchdown celebration by Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown in the window of The Home Bakery in Rochester, Mich., on Jan. 5, 2025. (DANIEL MEARS \u2014 The Detroit News)<\/p>\n<p>For the Gibbs and St. Brown cake, a team of 24 people spent about 400 hours, 65 pounds of fondant, eight cases of Kellogg\u2019s Rice Krispies treats and four sheet cakes, Tocco said.<\/p>\n<p>Tocco said the reaction to this year\u2019s Lions cake has been \u201ca little quieter\u201d than last year because the team didn\u2019t make the playoffs. But she said people have still reacted to it well, especially after the team\u2019s Sunday victory over their division rival, the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are just happy showing their love for the Lions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The bakery plans to keep the cake on display through the end of February, Tocco said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions\u2019 season may be over, but that hasn\u2019t stopped a Rochester bakery from capturing its players\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[797,181,23,752,143,145,144,3414,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-122227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-detroit-lions","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news","15":"tag-rochester-hills","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}