Spanish Pastry Chef Spends 4 Months To Create 500-Kilogram Cake for Saudi Royal Wedding

Spanish pastry chef Marc Suárez is known for making detailed luxury cakes. His latest creation, however, is unlike anything he has made before.

The wedding cake stands 3.5 metres tall and measures 1.8 metres wide. Its detailed design makes it look more like a museum artwork than a traditional wedding cake.

A Saudi family ordered the cake for a royal wedding. Suárez spent about six weeks developing the design and another four months bringing it to life.

Suárez normally works alone, but this project required much more help. He invited several pastry chef friends and their family members to join him.

One of the biggest tasks involved making, painting and arranging 33,000 decorative petals.

“Family, friends, and acquaintances all pitched in,” Suárez told RAC1. “I usually work alone, but this time the order was so large that even with my pastry chef friends, we didn’t have enough manpower. I had to call on the mothers and fathers of friends who all pitched in to help me make the 33,000 petals, paint them, and assemble them with branches and flowers.”

The team spent around 1,800 hours creating the cake. The finished structure weighed about 500 kilograms, or 1,100 pounds.

It was unveiled at the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris during the wedding of a Saudi couple who chose to remain anonymous.

Explaining the detailed design, Suárez said the newlyweds “wanted a cake that didn’t look like a cake, but rather a kind of monument that would pay homage to the event” and to the grand venue where the wedding took place.

Only about 0.1 percent of the creation was edible cake. Suárez made most of the structure using hand-shaped sugar paste and white chocolate.