What recipe calls for over 50kg of Regal-Ice, 50kg of Royal Icing, 20kg of Marzipan and over 40 tubes of Gel Food Colours? A Dr. Oetker celebration cake fit for a Queen.
Dr Oetker has teamed-up with food artist Prudence Staite to create a 6m² portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth using 2012 cupcakes. Prudence immortalized Cheryl Cole and the Obamas with food in the past.
Watch how she did it here: Cupcake Queen
Red, white and blue were the order of the day as the culinary artist used the Dr. Oetker home baking range to decorate the edible artwork, including ten cans of Gold and Silver Shimmer Spray, 60,000 Silver and Gold Soft Sugar Pearls and over 140 white Wafer Daisies to adorn the sparkly diamond-encrusted crown featured in the original image.
Prudence, who has been creating edible art for over 12 years, spent over 300 hours on the colourful portrait. She said: “I was excited to be given the chance to create such a meaningful portrait to celebrate the Queen’s reign. I have been working with savoury food and chocolate for years, but this was a whole new challenge. Decorating over 2,000 cupcakes was no mean feat, but the Dr. Oetker range of products were so easy to work with. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much icing in my studio before.”
The ‘Cupcake Queen’ was built in Prudence’ studio in Pamington, Gloucestershire and also featured 20kg of Plain and Milk Chocolate Chips and 30kg of Easy Swirl Cupcake Icing, which were used to define the Queen’s face.
Dr Oetker knows all about cake. In 1893, German pharmacist Dr. August Oetker introduced a baking powder packed in small sachets containing exactly the right amount needed to make the popular Gugelhupf cake (the German equivalent of Victoria sponge cake).
Incidentally, the portrait was made with out of date stock to avoid waste.
So we won’t be getting a bite, then, we’ll just have to make our own. Now, whose face do we want to see pasted in cream…
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