Power of Making V&A Review
Here are collections of review from The Power of Making Exhibition in V&A.
A life-sized cake of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice.
A life-sized cake of Mr Darcy Character from BBC’s Pride and Prejudice played by Colin Firth, has been unveiled to celebrate the launch of Jane Austen Season on UKTV Drama Channel. This 6ft tall creation was on display at National Trust property Lyme Park in Cheshire which was used as Mr Darcy's home Pemberley in the mini-series and where the famous lake scene was filmed. It's made out of vanilla sponge cake with vanilla buttercream filling and chocolate ganache. Michelle uses 25kg of flour, 25kg of butter and 45 kg of sugar and took more than 200 hours to make. Have your cake (and eat it too) Mr. Darcy ? The skin was made out of sugar paste and detailed with food colouring Press Coverage: Delicious Colin Firth - Daily Mail Life size Mr Darcy cake made for Pride and Prejudice anniversary - The List UKTV marks start of Jane Austen season with life-sized cake tribute to Pride and Prejudice's Mr Darcy - Wales Online Colin Firth's Mr Darcy perfectly recreated in impr
I was at the V&A yesterday and watched the video of you making the pig cake - it is amazing. Your baby cake is incredible too, though many people gasped when they realised it was a cake, it was a little too real! I just posted about it on my blog using one of your images, linked back to you of course, hope this is OK. Colette x
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