Marc Suárez is famous for his intricate luxury cakes, but his latest creation is in a league of its own! Measuring 3.5 meters tall and 1.8 meters wide, the Spanish pastry chef’s masterpiece looks more like a museum piece than a wedding cake!
Commissioned by a Saudi family for a royal wedding, Suárez spent about a month and a half coming up with a suitable concept, and another four months making his vision a reality. Even though he normally works alone, for this particular project, he enlisted several of his pastry chef friends, as well as their family members, because of the amount of work required. Simply placing the 33,000 petals on the cake was an extraordinary effort.
“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.”
In total, some 1,800 hours of work went into making this incredible-looking cake, which ended up weighing a whopping 500 kilograms (1,100 lbs). It was unveiled at the Paris Opera Garnier for the wedding of a Saudi couple who asked to remain anonymous.
Explaining the extreme intricacy of his cake, Marc Suárez said that 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 flamboyant venue that hosted it.
Interestingly, Suárez revealed that only about 0.1% of his incredible creation is actual cake, with the rest being hand-moulded sugar paste and white chocolate.
