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800kg Sydney Opera House cake created for Australia Day
Grant JonesNews Corp Australia
WA NewsLifestyle
IT MAY prove to be as much of an architectural marvel as the real thing but this version of the Opera House will be far more tasty.
Paris Cutler, of Sydney's Planet Cake, has created an 800kg Sydney Opera House cake for Australia Day celebrations tomorrow.
"This simply isn't a case of making an enormous cake, it is easily the most difficult building in the world to replicate," Ms Cutler said of the $40,000 cake.
Blueprints of the original were used to plan construction of the cake, with the sails proving the most challenging.
"It is definitely touch and go. Whether or not the team will get it done and if they do, whether it will come crashing down," she said.
A team of 10 expert cake decorators and 20 volunteers, who travelled from as far as Dubai to help create the edible icon, took more than 56 hours to complete the cake.
It will be made up of about 250 20cm square cakes, using up to 300kg of chocolate ganache and 150kg of fondant icing.
The base supporting the cake covered 8.64sq m and the highest sail of the cake is more than 1.25m high. Planet Cake is registering the 1:50 scale Opera House cake for the Guinness Book of Records.