Netflix orders 140 severed marshmallow fingers from rural Norwegian bakery for Harry Hole premiere

A small-town bakery in Flisa, eastern Norway, received an unusual request from Netflix to craft 140 severed, bloodied fingers in marzipan for the launch of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole, the streaming giant’s high-profile crime series, Dagbladet reports.

Conditor Ivar Bakke of Solungmat & The Cakemakers and Atico Solør told the newspaper his team immediately accepted the macabre commission. “We were asked if we could make bloody fingers, and of course we said yes,” he said. The fingers, styled with Marekors (Norwegian police evidence) symbols, were distributed in evidence bags at the Oslo premiere.

Hybrid design and a golden keepsake

Bakke revealed the fingers were a hybrid mould of his own and his wife’s hands—after she consulted Nesbø’s books to ensure anatomical accuracy. “I originally cut the Marekors symbol into the marzipan instead of painting it, to make it more gruesome,” he admitted.

As a token of appreciation, Bakke gifted Netflix a gold-painted plaster cast of the finger. The delivery driver, peeking into the transport box, reportedly called the cargo “both awesome and a little grotesque.”

Specialists in deceptive desserts

The bakery has built a reputation for hyper-realistic cakes disguised as everyday objects—from hamburgers and dog waste to planks of wood—featured in campaigns for Maxbo and the TVNorge show Skinnet bedrar (Appearances Deceive). “The challenge is making them look real but not too real—people had to eat them, after all,” Bakke noted.

His team, which includes workers with disabilities or barriers to employment, takes pride in handcrafted projects amid an era of AI-generated content. Previous standout creations include a 3,000-raspberry, 24-karat gold-leaf wedding cake for DJ Matoma.

“Being a small rural business headhunted for a project like Harry Hole—that’s the real thrill,” Bakke said.