Pastry Chef Creates 20kg Sponge Sculpture

Talented pastry chef Charlotte Marrifield, famous for her cake creations for celebrities and chefs, spent 20 hours exquisitely recreating the Main Drive store front at St Annes in London in sponge and icing, complete with bricks, roof turret and Booths signage.

The three stone replica of Booths’ newest supermarket store – made entirely from cake by Charlotte Marrifield – will take centre stage at its opening on September 9.

Already responsible for the world’s most expensive doughnut, Ireland’s biggest Easter egg and a Swarovski crystal skull wedding cake (which saw her dubbed the ‘Damien Hirst of the dessert world’) – as well as 18 years creating extravagant desserts for the rich and famous, leading chefs and top dessert manufacturers – Charlotte Marrifield was tasked with making the special cake because she’s just launched her own luxury range of Undeniably Charlotte domed cheesecakes into Booths.

As the largest ‘building’ she has ever undertaken, Charlotte used 30 eggs and 9 kilos of icing to create the structure and filled the interior of the replica shop with raspberry, Madagascan Vanilla and cream cheese frosting sandwiched between a Victoria sponge. Shoppers at 31 Booths stores are now able to taste Charlotte’s cheesecakes, which are completely handmade and hand decorated and boast a “secret centre” of tart raspberry compote or a beautiful silky passion fruit curd.

“I’ve never created such a large building out of cake before, and it certainly involved lots of late nights!” says Charlotte, who has cooked for Albert Roux, Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsey, Gary Rhodes, James Martin and Stephen Fry. “But it has been really exciting to be working with, and launching a new range into such a prestigious supermarket. Rather than cut the ribbon to the new store, we’ll be cutting my cake instead!”

Charlotte’s sponge sculpture launch cake will be cut at approximately 10.15am, on September 9, at the Lytham St Annes Booths Store.