Baker wins award for incredible Marie Antoinette creation that took 6 months to make how to make
Baker wins award for incredible Marie Antoinette creation that took 6 months to make
the mother who spent $ their king anincredible recreation of Marie Antoinette has been rewarded for herefforts after being handed the top prize at the UK's largest baking contest the towering four-foot creation took sixmonths to make and earned its creator Amanda mccloud critical acclaim fromjudges at the sugar craft and cake decorating church mother of one Amanda spend around 200hours completing the complex masterpiece in the likeness of the French Queen iswidely credited with the immortal line let them eat cake actually historians broadly agree thatit was not Marie Antoinette the Queen of France between and who actedthe insensitive words which actually translate as let them eat brioche whentold French presence was starving and had no bread to eat rather they believe it was the wife ofLouisa who said the words some one hundred years earlier still the popular version triumphed onthe day as the forty four-year-old won best in class in the decorative exhibitcategory a cake international in London's Excel Exhibition Centre she said I came up with the movieantoinette design years ago as an idea for a wedding cake but it never got made when it came to the competition Ithought it was just perfect as it gave me the chance to go all her due to herelaborate headgear I estimated to around our man hoursto complete and was a real labor of love am just delighted the judges loved ittoo the former student has been making cakesfor friends and family for years in she transformed her love forbaking and cake design into a full-time job after starting up her own company ina bid to spend more time with her young son she said I have always baked cakes forfriends and family the couple of years ago I was a studentnurse but the shift work was not working with having a young child I just decided to take the plunge andopen my own business it has grown from there Amanda now runs her own businesssupplying intricate wedding and celebration cakes to clients across thecountry the former graphic designer lives withher husband Graham has and operations manager and nine year old son dexter attheir family home in Chelmsford Essex her incredible Kate creation which isdecorated in edible sugar paste and royal icing will now go on display in alocal cake shop in more than six as part of a competition to raise funds forFarleigh Hospice