Unlike a simple sheet cake, wedding cakes take a lot of work and are all about decadence.
From multiple tiers to fondant and fresh florals, wedding cakes are essentially edible centerpieces.
That’s right.You could’ve bought a slice of the couple’s cakefrom July 29, 1981 at auction.
That may go without saying, but better safe than sorry?
Surely a world-class baker was responsible for this confection, right?
First, imagine having 11 wedding cakes on your big day.
Now, imagine just one of those cakes being so bigit weighed 500 pounds!
The then-princess' four-tiered cake was approximatelyninefeet tall.
What about one that was baked a few months ago?
Before you get too grossed out, it’s actually pretty standard practice when it comes to fruitcakes.
The finished product was a 220-pound, eight-tier, three-foot-tall wedding cake.
The assembly alone took two and a half days!
The baker, David MacCarfrae of David’s Cake Craft, looked to nineteenth century weddings for his inspiration.
After aging the fruitcake, he assembled the tiers and prepared them for icing.
MacCarfrae ended up piping byhand all 12 feet of the confection.
Thankfully for MacCarfrae, his amazing creation was well received.
The 200-pound fruitcake was made to serve over a thousand wedding guests.
It will be bound with marzipan and coated with royal icing, predominately white.
After soaking in rum, the cake took about nine hours to fully bake.
Petty Officer David Avery had the honor of designing the cake, but we wasn’t nervous.
He did such a good job, in fact, that it still holds up today.
Thanks, but hard pass!
It was so big that most of it had to be made on site at Windsor Castle.
The base alone stood at 56 inches tall and featured seven tiers.
On its stand, it was 10 feet tall.
When cut, the cake appeared to be the typical fruitcake, as is tradition for royal weddings.
However, the dark color was actually because it was chocolate Devil’s Food cake to be exact.
Perhaps dreading the run-of-the-mill fruitcake, guests were likely pleasantly surprised by the flavor.
Fruitcake is extremely dense, often laden with nuts and alcohol.
This means the Queen Mother’s cake was essentially made out of edible bricks.
Nevertheless, her most elaborate cake wasn’t nearly as extravagant aspast royal weddings.
She, too, chose some florals for the embellishments and proved that less can definitely be more.
