Fiona Cairns
Fiona Cairns has been chosen to create the Royal Wedding cake. Fiona is well known within the industry for designing commercial cakes for the likes of John Lewis, Waitrose Harrods and Selfridges & co.
I'm surprised and slightly disappointed if I'm honest, that the mammoth task to feed six hundred, wasn't offered to a new an up-and-coming cake designer with fresh, new, innovative ideas, or perhaps someone high profile like Peggy Porchen or Zoe Clarke with extensive contemporary cake design and decoration skills. Ultimately, its Wills and Kates wedding day and indeed their choice, who the hell am I to comment?!
The royal cake will consist of a multi-tiered fruit cake decorated with fresh fruit and flowers. The cake is said to feature the couple's intertwined initials and includes the symbols of the four British nations - an English rose, Scottish thistle, Welsh daffodil and Irish shamrock. There will be no colour, just ivory and white.
This all sounds very traditional to me but I could be completely wrong. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised by Fiona's culinary design skills, maybe this is the long awaited return of royal icing?
Only time will tell, 17 days to go!
I really thought that line was going to say, 'I'm disappointed if I'm honest - why the hell didn't they ask me to do it?!'...And I'd have entirely agreed! x
ReplyDeleteHahahah, noooooo!
ReplyDeleteAlthough it would have been an honour and the publicity would have been great, I don’t think I could cope with the stress!! Hats off to her for taking it on.
Thanks Julia, that tenner paid off!