800kg Sydney Opera House cake for Australia Day
Imagine recreating an architectural marvel made with flour, sugar, eggs , milk — you not just have to make it look very close to the real thing, but have to make it taste real good too!
So on Australia Day, the country has been gifted with a cake replica of its most famous landmark, the Sydney Opera House.
Worth $40,000, the cake was created by Paris Cutler, of Balmain’s Planet Cake. With an expert team of 10 cake decorators and 20 volunteers, who travelled from as afar as Dubai, to be part of this historic affair — took more than 56 hours to complete this ‘edible icon’ construction.
Among its key ingredients are 300kg of chocolate ganache and 150kg of fondant icing, which has been used to make each of the separate 250 20cm square cakes, that makes up this entire structure.
Planet Cake is registering the 1:50 scale Opera House cake for the Guinness Book of Records. And while on Australia Day, it is expected to vanish from the shelves pretty fast, the proceeds from sale will be donated to the Queen’s Flood Appeal.
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