Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

It seems that even cakes are not without controversy.

One of the moments at Friday’s A Salute To Our Armed Services Inaugural Ball at the National Building Museum featured Vice President Mike Pence cutting into a tall cake with a sword after a long applause.

Charm City Cakes’ Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes, found a striking similarity between that cake and his baked creation for the Obama inauguration in 2013, and tweeted as much.

It’s no coincidence.

Buttercream Bakery owner Tiffany MacIsaac, whose shop made the cake, told The Washington Post that the client had a photo of the Obama cake and asked for an exact replica. She asked if they instead wanted the photo to serve as “inspiration” for a new creation.

“They said, ‘Nope, they want this exact cake. It’s perfect.’ And we said, ‘Great,’” MacIsaac said.

She declined to name the client, who asked for a cake that couldn’t be eaten. She told the Post that “It’s just a Stryofoam cake. It’s not for eating,” with the exception of one three-inch slice at the bottom.

Buttercream Bakery has pledged the profits from its creation to Human Rights Campaign. It said on Instagram that it decided on HRC because “basic human rights are something every man, woman and child~ straight, gay or the rainbow in between~ deserve!”

Since then, Goldman has seemed to cool off about the recreation.

He and Buttercream Bakery have been tweeting at one another, with Buttercream calling Goldman a “class act” and he inviting them to come visit Charm City Bakery.

He defended their actions by saying that, “Cake decorators borrow and are inspired by each other all the time. It’s how we keep this industry fresh, relevant, and moving forward.”

This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has been caught lifting ideas from its predecessors. At the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump plagiarized portions of Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention.