The Royal Icing: Prince George Cake Wins Gold

The sponge creation, which is built on a skeleton of steel, wood and PVC tubing, stands at just under 3ft tall.

Baker Lara Mason says she used Prince George as her muse

A life-sized cake of Prince George has won the gold medal prize in an amateur bake-off competition.

Standing just under 3ft tall, the sponge creation which took 30 hours to craft won the gold award at the Cake International event held at Birmingham's NEC this weekend.

It depicts the young royal in red shorts and a patterned white shirt like he wore for the Christening of his sister Princess Charlotte in July.

Winning baker and self-confessed royalist Lara Mason, from Walsall in the West Midlands, said she decided on George as her muse as much for tactical reasons, as anything else.

Lara Mason shows off her creation at the NEC

"Those are the most important detail, so I went smaller and thought that I should make the most recognisable child in the world, which is Prince George."

The cake was built on a skeleton of steel, wood and PVC tubing.

Layers of cake were then baked and placed around the skeleton, while blocks of modelling chocolate made up the face, which were shaped to match the subject's features.

The cake was then covered in icing and painted with food coloring.

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