Cake fit for a princess

Regular followers will remember I had been editing a food magazine for Tesco, which sadly folded in the summer. I also mentioned a wedding cake we created as part of a royal wedding party buffet for our May issue and promised to dig out a photograph of it. Well here it is! Someone in our office showed me the brilliant toy figure set that was going on sale at the time of William and Kate's wedding, at the Early Learning Centre - complete with Corgi dogs! They had to go on our cake!

This cake was truly delicious - peach and pistachio layer cake with white chocolate frosting. The rest of our buffet included chicken yakitori, panzanella, Thai beef bites, piedmont peppers, tuna platter, roast salmon with salsa verde and summer berry meringues. For traditionalists, here's the cake again minus the figures, so you can see the simple but really stylish fresh flower arrangement you could achieve easily yourself for a small, intimate wedding party. Am happy to pass on the recipe to anyone interested and thanks to Tim Winter for the lovely photographs and delicious recipes by Catherine Hill.