DUBAI – Designer Debbie Wingham has created one of the world’s most expensive cakes Lulwa, also known as the ‘Million Dollar Bride’, a 120 kilogram-wedding cake shaped like a life-size Arabian bride.
The cake is dotted with five white diamonds, each worth $200,000, helping it earn the nomenclature of “The Million Dollar Bride”.
Lulwa – Arabic for ‘pearls’ – was modeled on a traditional Arabic bride wearing a stylish dress made of fondant.
The cake consisted of dozens of layers of sponge, 25 kilograms of chocolate, and around 50 kilograms of fondant. It weighed about 120 kilograms and had to be carried by no less than six people
“The diamonds were actually sourced from one of my UAE-based clients who were only too happy to loan them to me.”
“No one actually believes it’s a cake. In fact, she is as good as a living being for me. I call her Lulwa,”
“I have often been influenced by Middle Eastern culture. To actually make a Middle Eastern-inspired wedding cake is really up there with my other exciting endeavours. Most of my pieces are based on realism and I am glad that people liked it.” Khaleej Times quoted Debbie.
Wingham is the creator of some of the most expensive objects of desire in history, including a $16 million shoe, a $4.8 million black diamond dress, and the world’s most expensive wedding cake which was valued at a staggering $67 million.
Lulwa was unveiled on the opening day of the recently concluded 2018 Dubai Bride Show, and later cut and served to the guests of the event.
