Photos: Prague cafe hits sweet spot with coronavirus-shaped dessert

The dessert is made with a chocolate crust and dusted with cocoa butter spray

Published: October 13, 2020 15:20 Reuters and compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor

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A restaurant in Prague's historic centre has invented a dessert shaped like the novel coronavirus, an attempt to arrest a slump in business that is already proving a hit with customers. Image Credit: REUTERS

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The restaurant would normally be bustling with tourists admiring its cubist interior, but it has suffered as travel to the Czech Republic slumped amid the pandemic and the country battles one of the highest rates of coronavirus infections in Europe. Image Credit: REUTERS

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The dessert's creator, Olga Budnik, said she got the idea during lockdown in the spring. Image Credit: REUTERS

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"I found a photo of the virus on the internet and I figured out in detail how to make the dessert - how to make the spikes, what the colour would be like, and I prepared it all," said Budnik. Image Credit: REUTERS

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The dessert is slightly smaller than a tennis ball, with a chocolate crust and dusted with cocoa butter spray. Image Credit: REUTERS

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The virus' "spikes" are made of white chocolate and dried raspberries. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Inside there is a pistachio filling with raspberry puree and raspberries in the centre. Image Credit: REUTERS

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The delicacy has been a big success, with sales of more than 100 each day and rising. Image Credit: REUTERS

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"The coronavirus crisis has meant a huge drop for us, in tens of percent, like for other gastro enterprises," the cafe's marketing manager Vojtech Hermanek said. Image Credit: REUTERS

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"But at the same time it was a chance to bring out the coronavirus cake which is a symbol ... showing that not everything is lost," said Hermanek. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Budnik, a Ukrainian living in Prague for the past six years, already has sights on the next product a COVID-19 vaccination-themed sweet which should taste of citrus and liqueur. "It will be lots of lime with a bit of alcohol," she said. Image Credit: REUTERS

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