A BAKERY in the French Riviera has been banned from displaying cupcakes of a naked man and woman made out of dark chocolate — because they were inciting “racial hatred.”

    The “God” and Goddess” cakes, which topped with the chocolate figures of a naked, plump man and woman with pink lips and protruding genitalia, were deemed offensive by a French court after a complaint by a shocked resident.

    A judge concluded that treats — sold in a “boulangerie” in the town of Grasse, Nice — showed “two people of color in grotesque and obscene attitudes,” adding they violate “human dignity, especially that of the African people or people of African descent.”

    The administrative court in Nice ruled while the patisserie can still bake and sell the cakes — which have been made to order for the last 15 years — it said the town’s mayor must ensure that the offending pastries were removed from the shop window.

    For each day they were still on show, the town faced a fine of €500 (US$544).

    The court said it found no “malicious will” on the part of the baker, but also ordered the town to pay a fine of €1,000 to the Representative Council of Black Association (CRAN), which joined the calls for the cupcakes to be banned.

    President of CRAN Louis George-Tin said he was “delighted” with the ruling, made Thursday, adding it was a warning to the rest of France.

    Baker Yannick Tavolaro has now made a defamation complaint against CRAN, and said the use of dark chocolate is “technically necessary” to model the figures, which he said were cartoons.(SD-Agencies)