Kate Middleton & Prince William’s Wedding Cake: 8 Tiers, 900 Sugar-Paste Flowers, Serves 650!

391 days ago by JohnMancini 7 Comments

Kate and William wowed their royal wedding guests with a magnificent creation by the renowned Fiona Cairns — 17 individual fruit cakes decorated in elegant scroll work and piping!

Kate Middleton and Prince William‘s spectacular wedding cake took Fiona Cairns five weeks to design — and Kate had definite ideas on what she wanted for her historic day!

Fiona’s fruit cakes are a sought-after English treat — Paul McCartney makes sure he gets one every Christmas — and the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are among her biggest fans.

The eight-tiered wedding cake, decorated in cream, white icing and 900 delicate sugar-paste flowers, was a stunning centerpiece to the Buckingham Palace 650-guest reception hosted by William’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

“Catherine did not want it to be seven feet tall, she didn’t want it to be towering and thin, and I think we succeeded,” Fiona tells AFP, adding that the princess bride loved the intricate piping and the three-dimensional scroll work, leaves and flowers.

“I could not believe I finished it in time but we were all really pleased with it,” she says. “I worked at the palace for two days before the wedding, setting it up with my team. The hardest part was transporting the cakes from Leicestershire to the palace.”

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Katarina De la Motitiatia

Posted at 7:34 PM on May 16, 2011  

OH mi Dios ! This cake looks so delicious. And again, congratulation to the futur king and queen ! Bravo to William and Kate !

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Les Jackson

Posted at 2:21 PM on May 15, 2011  

Just beautiful. No other words to describe. Very ellegant.

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Helene Tuwai

Posted at 10:59 PM on May 6, 2011  

Absolutely stunning I was a professional cake decorator and find the work on this cake absolutely out of this world

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Patricia

Posted at 8:39 AM on May 5, 2011  

well, I think the cake was beautiful, but not amazing as I though it should be.

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Bob

Posted at 7:59 AM on May 2, 2011  

I was there at your wedding.
I think your cake looks good.
You are cute kate.

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