Dream come true for Hannah

LONDON: Lots of little girls dream of one day wearing the perfect wedding dress.

But when six-year-old Hannah Millington-Day designed this elegant ivory number, she was thinking about eating it.

She came up with the idea for a life-sized, edible bridal gown when she saw a picture of her mother’s wedding dress.

Then it was down to her mother Donna, a confectioner, to bake it.

She used a whopping 224 free-range eggs, 28lb of flour, 28lb of caster sugar and 28lb of butter, and spent a whole week cooking.

The result — worth £6,000 (Dh33,127) — is 6ft tall and made of 17 tiers of sponge cake. It is topped with 49lb of sugar paste icing, 2lb of royal icing and hundreds of sugar pearls.

It is filled with 17lb of Madagascan vanilla butter cream and around 7lb of raspberry jam.

And it could feed as many as 2,000 guests — if anyone can bring themselves to cut into it.

Millington-Day, 36, said: “Hannah was going through my old wedding photos when she suggested we recreate my dress. I thought it was a great idea.

“Although it’s not an exact replica I have taken the details like the corset and styling on the side.

“The satin finish was achieved using a pearl lustre and each swirl was hand-piped.”

Millington-Day runs the Fairytale Cake Company with her husband of eight years, Myles.

The couple, of Wombourne, Staffordshire, also have a son Edward, aged two.

The enormous sweet treat was unveiled yesterday at the start of the National Wedding Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

To get it there, a trolley was custom-made to fit its 30in base.

But it won’t be on the move too often. Millington-Day said: ‘We’re not going to sell the cake but to buy it would cost around £6,000.

“After the show we’re going to display it in our shop window.”