A woman made her GP sister a “hilarious” stool chart cake after spotting the poo scale in her bathroom. Denise Cox, 52, thought it would be “a laugh” to bake the fun cake for her sister Pippa’s 50th birthday.The Bristol stool scale is used to describe the shapes and types of stools and helps diagnose constipation, diarrhoea and irritable bowel syndrome.
Denise made the chocolate cake with her husband, David Monk, 68, a retired civil engineer - topping it with white icing, editable text and decorating the types of poo with chocolate bars.Pippa - who used to have the stool chart in her toilet - found it “hilarious” and “laughed her head off”.
Denise posted the cake on her Facebook page and was shocked by the response with many other doctors and nurses appreciating the cake.She now hopes it can help raise awareness and stop the “shame” of talking about poo.
Denise, owner of Tapestry Cakes, from Watford, Hertfordshire, said: “They used to have the stool chart in the loo - as you do as a doctor.“It used to make me smile.
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