A Gold Medal Wedding Cake

Mark Seaman, a baker from Chicago, Illinois in the United States has captured the top honor in an international wedding cake competition at the Oklahoma Sugar Arts Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The theme of the competition was “Hollywood Glamour” and Seaman’s entry paid homage to comedienne Lucille Ball. The six-tiered cake featured 500 individually crafted fondant feathers and 80 handmade orchid blossoms made from sugar gum paste. The cake took nearly 200 hours to make.

Seaman, 37, started out his career as a computer trainer for Dutch-based ABN bank, but he’d always loved baking, something he’d learned from his mother as a child. In 2002, he went back to school at The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, and also studied cake decorating at the Wilton School of Cake Decorating. He also did stints at the International Sugar Art Collection School of Confectionary Art and the French Pastry School before opening his own bakeries in Libertyville, IL and Chicago.

Seaman had earned the bronze and silver medals in earlier competitions, but this was his first gold medal.

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