Making a Cake for Elton John

Elton John came to Chicago for the opening of Aida. Afterwards, he and the cast had a party at the Four Seasons Hotel. The pièce de Resistance was a Hippo cake created by Le Royale Icing.

Elton requested a hippo head, mouth wide open, up to his neck in mud (represented by chocolate, of course). With just one week to create, Margaret and her team were busy designing, engineering, baking, molding, frosting and painting the life-like hippo cake. The cake served about 250 people. View Margaret and her team up to their elbows in butter cream.

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