The making of a royal wedding cake

Описание: (14 Feb 2011)
AP Television
Stockport - 3 Feb 2011
1. Almonds being showered over giant pan of mixed fruit peel and other cake ingredients
2. Baker shovels ingredients into industrial cake mixer
3. Baker plunges his arm into ingredients to check they are spread evenly
4. Cake mixer is switched on
5. Close up of cake being mixed
6. Various of baker putting cakes into oven
7. Various of cake artist putting finishing touches onto wedding cake
8. Pan down of wedding cake
9. Wedding cake being placed in shop window
10. View from outside through window of cake being placed in position
11. Exterior of Celebration Cakes bakery and shop
12. Photo of two-metre-high (6.5 feet) cake that was made for Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding in 1981
13. Tilt up photo showing the five storeys of the Charles and Diana wedding cake
14. Various of Andrew Davidson, from Celebration Cakes, reading through letter of thanks sent by Charles and Diana
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Davidson, Celebration Cakes:
"It's a great honour to do it. That's the thing about it. It's a great honour to do the cake. The staff get involved, and it gives them a boost as well. They enjoy being involved in doing a royal wedding cake."
16. Tilt down white and red wedding cake decorated with ice roses
17. Traditional white wedding cake in corner of shop
18. Tilt down white and green wedding cake decorated with ice flowers
19. White and black wedding cake decorated with ice butterflies
20. Model of bride and groom on top of wedding cake
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Davidson, Celebration Cakes:
"We have applied (to provide) the wedding cake on this occasion, but unfortunately they haven't accepted. We think maybe they (William and Kate) are putting a different twist on their wedding. They're organising the wedding themselves, so they have more involvement with the wedding on this occasion, and perhaps she's choosing her cake maker and her dressmaker herself."
22. Various of staff decorating animal figurines on cakes
23. Various of Staff prepare chocolate shells for Easter
24. Chocolate shoes with stiletto heels
25. Various of figurines of wedding guests and the bride and groom
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LET THEM EAT ROYAL CAKE
Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton seem set on another break with tradition, this time through their choice of wedding cake.
For almost forty years, family baker Andrew Davidson has provided the cake for major royal weddings, including that of William's parents - Charles and Diana in 1981.
But this time the royals have politely declined, in a further sign that William and Kate are determined to do things their way.
Davidson owns Celebration Cakes, a small bakery in Stockport, near Manchester in the north west of England.
A bakery worker showers grated almonds over a rich mixture of fruit peel and other ingredients.
After shovelling everything into a 48-kilogram (105 pound) mixing bowl and checking that all the ingredients are properly spread out, he flicks a switch, and the process is underway.
A short time later, the cakes are on their way to the oven.
Then the bakery artists take over, using piped icing to apply the finishing touches.
It looks much like any other bakery, supplying cakes to a mainly local clientele, and it's a family enterprise, run by Davidson with his daughter Liz and grand-daughter Amy.
But Andrew Davidson has supplied wedding cakes for all four of the Queen's children.
In 1981 on the occasion of Prince Charles' marriage to Princess Diana he was a college lecturer, teaching the art of baking cakes.

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