The Royal wedding cake

[Liberal_in_LA]

took five weeks to make. ugh. I like my cake fresh



They celebrated their love for each other today in a lavish Royal Wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey and this is the extraordinary cake that they enjoyed at the reception.
Prince William and his bride Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, cut the first slice of the magnificent eight-tiered wedding cake this afternoon as they celebrated their marriage with friends and family.
The confectionery masterpiece covered in cream and white icing and decorated with up to 900 delicate sugar-paste flowers was centre-stage at the Buckingham Palace reception held in the picture gallery.
The project has left cake-maker Fiona Cairns exhausted but elated after working for five weeks on it which has tested her skills and those of her team to the limit.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381944/Royal-W...

[Lucinda]

1. Not a fruitcake fan...but that is one gorgeous cake.

[glinda]

2. Wills cut it with his sword I heard. lol! Also, I have had an actual good fruitcake, not like

most that you get so am sure it was amazing all the way around.

[shireen]

11. yes, good fruit cake is heavenly.

My mom makes it, she lets it mature in brandy for a few weeks. It amazing!

[gkhouston]

13. My mom makes good fruitcake, also. It's actually better after about a month.

We wrap ours up snugly, but covering in fondant would have much the same effect. If this cake tasted bad, its age would not have been the reason.

[patrice]

22. My mom has a recipe from here ancestors, not so much glaced fruit, lots of pecans, brandy & a touch

of rose-water. It's scrumptious!

[gkhouston]

23. LOL, I stll have some Christmas fruitcake. All this talk of it makes me want a slice! n/t

[wackadoo wabbit]

42. It sounds heavenly! Any chance you'd be willing to share the recipe? n/t

n/t

[freshwest]

45. Please do, I love fruitcake. That one sounds great.

[Lucinda]

19. Yawp. Bet it was. I read it was a favorite of them both.

And a good fruitcake appeals to me in theory...I've just never had one! LOL

[Solly Mack]

3. Even the cake had a Fascinator. Teehee

[patrice]

15. Yes, it does! lol!

[handmade34]

4. nice artwork...

I appreciate the work that went into it... last year I visited the Johnson&Wales Culinary Art Museum (Rhode Isalnd) and they have an extensive display of cakes... very cool!!

http://www.culinary.org/Collections/Art/

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. I've been to that museum!

[handmade34]

7. at the time

my son was attending CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and it was a treat for him as well... and my partner remember eating at the old diner on display (he is from Providence)... it was fun!

[jp11]

6. Never thought I'd welcome a thread about the royal wedding.

[patrice]

18. Me too; think I'll just stay & look at this here cake. Feeling kind of queasy for some reason.

[riderinthestorm]

8. Fruitcake is different and takes weeks to make.

I'm guessing this one has a lot of liqueur in it (Gran Marnier maybe? Yum!) which is standard in a lot of these types of cake to "marinate" the citron, raisins, currants, dates etc.

Lovely decorations though (this thread is a welcome relief from the OBL threads by the way).

[LynneSin]

9. I read where the cake was made with all local organic ingredients

The wedding was suppose to be very green - even the flowers she used were local and the wedding bulletins were printed on recycled paper.

[flpab]

10. Very green wedding

The cake is soaked in brandy and very yummy, different than our typical fruit cake. The trees she had in the church are going to be planted at Highgrove so that was very nice also.

[JI7]

12. it is a very beautiful cake.but i wonder if it tasted as good as it looks

[sabrina 1]

14. Beautifully decorated, it's a work of art!

I would not be able to cut that! Someone else would have to do it.

Engish traditional wedding cake and Christmas fruitcake is different from here. You can keep for a year and it still tastes great. It has lots of liquer in it to preserve it as pieces of the cake were often sent to relatives who could not come to the ceremony and also kept for the first year anniversary celebrations. I love traditional English/Irish wedding cake!

[kas125]

21. LOL, that's what everyone says, nobody wants to cut them. I make

cakes and that one would have taken me forever. I timed myself once when making flowers and it took me twenty minutes to make a rose. One year when my kids were in elementary school I made a cake that had the school on it for teacher appreciation day. I'd sat across the street and sketched the building and put it on the cake. It did look pretty cool, I had all the doors and windows, the flagpole, the flowers and trees, etc. I took it to the school in the morning and put it in the teacher's lounge. I came back at the end of the day and the whole middle of the cake, the part with the school was still there; they'd cut little tiny pieces around it, but nobody would cut the middle. Not long after that I got a job at the school and whenever I took a cake, I'd have a couple people look at it and then I'd plunge a knife into the middle because if I didn't do it, nobody would.

[sabrina 1]

31. Lol, that's a cute story. I'm glad I'm not the only one

who feels that way! I like that they left all the good work and ate all around it. That's what I used to do with Chocolate Bunnies when I was little. I just couldn't eat the heads! I don't know how you were able to destroy your own creation though. I probably would have left and never looked back.

[kas125]

35. Yeah, but it's a real pain at weddings - I almost always have to be

the one to cut the cake if I'm the one who made it. It's not as hard to destroy weeks' worth of work now that there are digital cameras. I used to tell brides that I'd make a duplicate of their top tier boxed for them to save for their anniversary so they didn't have to worry about saving and packing up the top of their wedding cake; no extra charge, I just want a picture of the cake. They all thought that was a great idea, but not one ever sent me a picture, lol.

[sabrina 1]

48. No one sent you a picture?

Too bad, it would have nice to have. But now, as you pointed out earlier, it is easy to photograph, as in the OP. You sound like a very thoughtful person and that was a wonderful idea, the duplicate of the top tier.

[patrice]

16. The whole thing was fruitcake? That's awesome! Love a good fruitcake!

[patrice]

17. It's beautiful! Looks yummy!!!

[patrice]

20. K&R

[Mrsadkins9399]

24. Plus they save the top layer for their 1st child's christening nt

[KittyWampus]

25. stunningly beautiful work.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

26. Fantasmagoric!

[adigal]

27. And that one lady's head is not covered

A nice piece of hair will be found in a bite of that cake!!

[undeterred]

28. So I'm guessing they don't do that reception picture where the bride and groom stuff cake

at each others faces.... yeah, thats probably too American.

[Prophet 451]

33. Doesn't tend to happen here

Never known it happen here, seems to be an American tradition more than anything.

[slackmaster]

29. That's some very fine craftsmanship

Thanks for posting the image.

[FedUpWithIt All]

30. I suspect it was the sugar-paste flowers that were being worked on weeks in advance.

They take a long time to create and set and are typically added to the cake while it is being set up for display.

[kas125]

36. It definitely was the flowers. I read the other day that there were

over 30 different kinds of flowers on that thing and that there were a lot of them. It takes me 20 minutes to make a rose, so it took a lot of time to make the flowers for that cake.

[bullwinkle428]

32. Eh, that "Ace of Cakes" dude probably could have topped that!

[LisaL]

34. He does make some fantastic looking cakes.

[kas125]

38. His price also starts at $1,000 and goes up from there. One of

the shops on Amazing Wedding Cakes charges $75 per hour for making flowers and decorations for cakes. And I do it for fun, lol.

[Lucian]

37. It's a shame that cake was eaten.

[kas125]

39. No, no no! There are pictures to remember. When someone

makes a cake that takes weeks, the best part is that someone is eating and enjoying it. Believe me, if nobody ate it, the bakers would feel as if they'd done all that work for nothing. See my story above about the cake for the teachers who didn't eat it - I hated that I did all that work and they didn't even get to appreciate it.

[Lucian]

40. Touche.

[GreenPartyVoter]

41. Exquisite! Here is a pic of my own much smaller one! LOL

[Gin]

43. that is a pretty cake too....speaking of cake...I just woke up and

cake for breakfast sounds good to me right now.

[freshwest]

46. I like it better than the one in the OP.

[GreenPartyVoter]

47. Aw, thanks! :^D

[freshwest]

49. Good links there, too.

[zanana1]

44. The British make very "heavy" cake.

I was really surprised when I took my first bite of an English cake. A tiny slice will fill you up all day. Good, though.