For one night, visitors of the Tate & Lyle Tasting House in Soho, London got a taste of the world's first edible hotel.
The hotel within a hotel featured three stories and eight rooms covered in various items made of entirely cake: vanilla sponge cushions, meringue rugs made of 1,081 rainbow-colored confections, a bathtub full of kettle corn.
Even next to a wire-framed bed, topped with fresh white linen and flower petals made of marzipan, sat an edible book and matching pen.
Each room had a special theme with international fare in mind: one was Mediterranean-inspired, complete with edible bunting, while another echoed the likes of "Pirates of the Caribbean", holding a gleaming, golden treasure chest bursting with pearls, silver and rubies. (See photos)
Yet another room was British in feel, and still another was dubbed "The South Pacific Room" had an Easter Island statue made completely of chocolate mud cake, standing almost seven feet tall.
The event was put on to sponsor Tate & Lyle's new "Taste Experience" line of golden and brown cane sugars.
Each of the rooms decked out to "celebrated the different properties of each of the sugars" the company said in a statement.
According to the Mirror, a British news service, 14 artists spent 2,000 hours amongst hot ovens and silver mixing bowls. They then spent another 900 hours frosting and decorating. The craft bakers reportedly used more than 600 kilos, roughly 1,322 pounds, of sugar to create these masterpieces.
The hard work paid off, says James Whiteley, the Senior Brand Manager for Tate & Lyle who mentioned that the cake hotel encapsulated the excitement and whimsy offered by their new range of sugars.
"We hope that through the cake hotel we can showcase the versatility of golden and brown sugars and inspire people to get creative in the kitchen," he said.
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