Let’s talk about the most scandalous and weird cakes in history. First, the clockwork cake made to celebrate the birth of Louis XIV’s grandson. It ‘both depicted and animated' the birth of the child through a marzipan vagina. In 1474, an Italian cookbook contained a recipe for a pie filled with live birds, which burst into flight when the pie was sliced. (This may have been the origin of the Sing a Song of Sixpence nursery rhyme).