The wedding cake had a strong British floral theme, using elements of the Joseph Lambeth technique. It was a multi-tiered traditional fruit cake decorated with cream and white icing. The Lambeth technique is based on a style of decorating that was popular in England where chefs and decorators would use a lot of intricate piping to create 3-D scrollwork, leaves, flowers, and other decoration.
The method is still popular today and is frequently used by wedding cake designers and decorators to create ornate wedding cakes. The cake designer Fiona Cairns was chosen in February 2011 to create the wedding cake. Furthermore, McVitie's created a special cake from chocolate biscuit for the reception at Buckingham Palace. The chocolate biscuit cake was made from a Royal Family recipe and was specially requested by Prince William.
The method is still popular today and is frequently used by wedding cake designers and decorators to create ornate wedding cakes. The cake designer Fiona Cairns was chosen in February 2011 to create the wedding cake. Furthermore, McVitie's created a special cake from chocolate biscuit for the reception at Buckingham Palace. The chocolate biscuit cake was made from a Royal Family recipe and was specially requested by Prince William.
The sugar flowers are elaborate and the whole design is very ornate - but still tasteful, thanks to sticking to a colour scheme of white and cream. It is a traditional fruit cake made by Fiona Cairns and her team.
The eight-tiered cake has around 900 sugar paste flowers. The details of the room are mirrored on one tier of the cake, with the roses, acorns, ivy leaves, apple blossom and bridal rose from the wall's garlands all used.
Seventeen different blooms and foliage have also been used for their symbolism. 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, and lavender.
There was also cascading orange and apple blossom, honeysuckle, acorns with oak leaves - meaning strength and endurance - and bridal rose, which symbolises happiness, and myrtle.
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 four flowers of the home nations - English rose, Scottish thistle, Welsh daffodil and Irish shamrock - were featured on the penultimate tier and the top was covered with lace with a garland of lily of the valley and heather on top - no model of the happy couple!
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