THE magnificent eight-tiered wedding cake was covered in cream and white icing and decorated with up to 900 delicate sugar-paste flowers.
The project has left cake-maker Fiona Cairns exhausted but elated after working for five weeks on the project.Along the cake's base ran ivy leaves, symbolising marriage, and the bottom three tiers were decorated with piped lace work and daisies, meaning innocence, sweet William - grant me one smile - and lavender. There were infill features of cascading orange and apple blossom, honeysuckle, acorns with oak leaves - meaning strength and endurance - and bridal rose, which symbolises happiness, and myrtle. The fourth tier featured the intricate garlands, reflecting the architectural details in the room, and above this was another cake covered with lattice work and piped leaf detail. Lily of the valley, representing sweetness and humility, covered the sixth tier which also had an artistic interpretation of the couple's cipher - their initials intertwined below a coronet.The cake maker would not reveal all the ingredients she used but said the cake contained a range of produce from dried fruits such as raisins and sultanas to walnuts, cherries, grated oranges and lemon, French brandy and free-range eggs and flour.* TOP TIER: Fiona Cairns stands proudly next to the Royal Wedding cake The four flowers of the home nations - English rose, Scottish thistle, Welsh daffodil and Irish shamrock - were featured on the penultimate tier and the top cake, around six inches in diameter, was covered with lace details with a garland of lily of the valley and heather on top.CAPTION(S):Ms Cairns, 56, was contacted by St James's Palace in February and asked if she would make William and Kate's wedding cake. She said: "The reception was in picture gallery in the Palace. It has high ceilings and is an imposing room so I wanted the cake to have presence but not to be imposing and I think it worked."* TOP TIER: Fiona Cairns stands proudly next to the Royal Wedding cake
* TOP TIER: Fiona Cairns stands proudly next to the Royal Wedding cake
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