A nine-tiered wedding cake decorated with sapphires and 1,200 carats of diamonds was displayed this weekend at a Texan bridal show in the U.S setting a world record.
The cake created by a Dallas bakery, Delicious Cakes, and jewellery store, Silver Exchange, is estimated to be worth $1.3 million (£800,000), according to NBC’s Dallas/Fort Worth affiliate.
Diamond encrusted wedding cake
The diamond encrusted wedding cake would serve 320 people at $3,125 (£1,924) per slice, and weighs approximately 160 pounds. Covered in silver ‘luster’ dust icing and 1,200 carats of diamonds, the decadent creation arrived in an armoured vehicle to the market hall to the Dallas Bridal Show with security guards.
“We wanted to do something different this year,” said Butch Stivers, owner of Delicious Cakes. “With the economy being bad – and we do the Dallas Bridal Show so many years – we wanted to do something that the new brides-to-be could see and dream about and get their minds off everything else that’s going on.”
The cake has set the world record for the most expensive display wedding cake. Stivers admitted he has decorated a cake with diamonds before but not with $1.3 million worth of diamonds and sapphires.
In January 2004, the world’s largest wedding cake was displayed at the New England Bridal Showcase Uncasville, USA. The vanilla flavoured, seven-tiered, Mohegan Sun Wedding Cake, weighed 13,000 pounds and entered the Guinness Book of World Records. Decorated with chocolate bows and hearts steel discs were needed as cake separators and two fork-lifts to raise each tier.
