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Baker Yannick Tavolaro poses with “God” and “Goddess” cupcakes at at "La belle epoque" bakery in Grasse, France. (Valery Hache, AFP)

Nice - A French court has banned the display of cupcakes topped with the naked figures of a man and woman wrought in dark chocolate in a pastry shop near Nice after a watchdog described them as "racist".

The "God" and "Goddess" cupcakes - which have been on sale in the shop in the town of Grasse for about 15 years - are stuffed with ganache and topped with the chocolate figures of a plump man and woman with pink lips and protruding genitalia.

The administrative court in Nice on Thursday ordered they be removed from the shop's window display, though - finding no "malicious will" on the part of the baker - it allowed the shop to continue making and selling them.

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