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The Queen Of Beauty

McVitie’s gifts a commemorative five-tier cake to Her Majesty The Queen to mark Platinum Jubilee – Retail Times

McVitie’s has appreciated an affiliation with the Royal Relatives for virtually two generations, furnishing cakes for a lot of Royal situations, welcoming Royal site visitors to their bakeries and developing commemorative biscuit tins.  

As a Royal Warrant holder, McVitie’s has a prolonged-standing history of baking celebration cakes for the Royal Residence. With 182 several years of British baking and confectionary heritage McVitie’s was involved in the generation of wedding day cakes for Princess Mary of Teck and The Duke of York (later on Queen Mary and King George V), Princess Marina and The Duke of Kent and the seven-tiered wedding cake served at Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding day in 1947, the top tier of which was employed as the Christening cake for Prince Charles in 1948. This tradition continued through many generations of Royal cakes.

To go on with tradition, and mainly because there is no improved way to rejoice than with cake, McVitie’s is honoured to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a commemorative cake as a reward for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 

The standard fruit cake has been produced with 360 of Britain’s finest free-variety eggs, 26.5kg of flour and 15kg sugar and has taken five bakers in excess of 1,000 hours to build utilizing a recipe inspired by past recipes for royal cakes produced by McVitie’s. 

The cake design attracts on inspiration from The Queen’s Eco-friendly Canopy project, a tree planting initiative made to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Symbolising ‘The Tree of Life’ each individual of the 5 special tiers characteristic flowers native to the United Kingdom symbolizing floral alterations from winter to summer season and getting us on a seasonal journey as the tiers ascend.

Along with the ornate, hand-made bouquets and foliage that embellishes each and every tier, moulded cameos of The Queen all over her 70-12 months reign will attribute on the base tier, like those we’re applied to seeing on pound coins. This will sit on a foundation which sculpture Philip Walker, experienced through The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Rely on, has hand-carved out of English Walnut to emulate the root process of a tree.

The tier higher than contains intricate, hand drawn images of the British isles and Scottish Royal Arms, the Welsh Badge and the Garter Star demonstrated on each and every facet.

Moving up to the middle of the cake, the third tier incorporates the immediate line of succession to The Queen surrounded by an classy, piped department-like border. 

The penultimate layer shows the recognisable, official Platinum Jubilee logo in equally English and Welsh, with the leading layer piped with the celebratory range ‘70’ piped in platinum effect, surrounded by The Queen’s favorite flower, Lily of the Valley. 

Last but not least, a fellow member of The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Have faith in, silversmith Ryan McClean, has created a silver tree shaped topper, keeping up a crown, that will sit on best of the cake. 

The cake has been diligently baked and crafted by a team of bakers and prize-profitable cake and sugar designers. The McVitie’s baking group is built up of guide merchandise style supervisor Billy Kilvington and solution structure technologist Eve Goldspink, with about 25 years’ encounter concerning them. The lead style and design staff is produced up of Guide Cake Designer, Annie Relph, who skilled below royal cake decorator Eddie Spence MBE. Along with primary royal icing professional Christine Flynn and flower staff headed by planet-top sugar flower maker Alan Dunn, alongside pro flower maker and sugar crafter Rhianydd Webb, supported by Sue McMahon. 

To inspire the country to create their possess cakes and ‘celebake’ above the Jubilee weekend McVitie’s is working with articles creators including Great British Bake Off winner Candice Brown who will be building the ultimate fruit cake recipe influenced by McVitie’s commemorative cake. A opposition is also staying run on McVitie’s social channels, supplying followers a chance to win an unique McVitie’s Jubilee Gift Box.