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For with a sprinkling of imagination and a large dollop of skill, Rob is now heading up a cake company that doesn't so much produce phentermine weight loss study as create spectacular works of sugary art that are almost too good to eat. In fact, one of the studio's most recent phentermine weight loss study wasn't for consumption at all instead, the lovingly created £2000 work was smashed to smithereens on the set of soap drama Emmerdale, for a special wedding day scene that ended in chaos. It was the second time Edinburgh's own 'Mr Sugar' whose phentermine weight loss study have been savoured by the likes of Katie 'Jordan' Price and Sigourney Weaver has seen the Emmerdale cast shatter one of his prize creations. Hopefully that's not a fate that will befall the Gilmore Place based studio's latest flamboyant creation. "We're doing a really fabulous cake to celebrate Christmas," says Rob enthusiastically probably just as excited as he was when his mum Lyn proudly removed his first Victoria sponge from the oven of their Cumbria home. "It's 24 carat gold. Edible gold with chocolate and gold cherubs and fuchsia icing. It's so exciting because it's totally different and it's something no one else is doing." At a whopping £1500, it's not the kind of cake most of us would chomp into with our afternoon cuppa. Although that might not be a major concern to some of House of Sugar's well heeled clients. Take the cake designed for Dame Shirley Bassey's 69th birthday which reportedly included a surprise ingredient a £1 million diamond tucked inside the top tier or the lavish creation currently being completed at the company's studios, a massive 1.5m high gingerbread house which will form the centrepiece of the Christmas decorations at Home House, the Picardy Place members' club. "We've always said that it's the one cake we hadn't done a gingerbread house yet it's the most traditional kind of decorated cake. Now to be doing one this big almost big enough to live in it's brilliant," laughs Rob, 29. Yet a gingerbread house seems decidedly middle of the road compared to some of House of Sugar's trio of designers' other offerings in a portfolio that look more 'ready to wear' than ready to eat. There are phentermine weight loss study sporting stiletto heel shoes, glitter balls and even bizarrely cigarette butts. And there are sugary Harvey Nichols shopping bags, incredibly detailed replicas of magazine pages, images of Hollywood stars, a Las Vegas Elvis and even a creepy 'Corpse Bride'. But they are just the phentermine weight loss study House of Sugar is happy to reveal. "People do look at other people's work to get ideas, so we keep our private portfolio secret and only bring it out for a prospective client," explains Rob. That's often over a five star afternoon tea, during which the customer is lavished with samples. Sometimes requests can border on the bizarre but, so far at least, there hasn't been a cake the designers haven't been able to make. "We're not a novelty cake company though," stresses Rob, who launched House of Sugar on the internet just over two and a half years ago. "What we do is realistic sugar sculpture the effects are very polished and neat and tidy. We want our work to look like real life. "We've done everything from skyscrapers to naked women." Rob grew up in the Lake District and it was probably inevitable that his future lay somewhere in the cake industry. "My grandmother ran a café and my family are all good cooks but I always said I'd never go into the cake business because there's no money in it," he laughs. "I wanted to go on to the stage and perform." As a youngster he appeared with local amateur groups before embarking on a performing arts course at college. An accomplished pianist, he heard entrepreneur Peter de Savary had taken over Skibo Castle near Dornoch, and wrote him a letter. "I must have been very precocious back then," he laughs. "I said, 'You've got this fantastic castle, you must need someone to play piano really well'. He called me and said 'I'll see you at six tomorrow'. "It was a nine hour journey to get there but I arrived right on time. Then he said, 'Okay, you're playing in the grand drawing room tonight'. That night I was playing in front of Dawn French and Lenny Henry." He eventually became entertainment manager there but he had already left Skibo when he received a call out of the blue that would propel him into the world of an A list celebrity wedding to play piano for Madonna and Guy Ritchie when they married seven years ago. "There was all this hysteria outside but inside was perfectly calm and peaceful. I'd written Madonna a piece of music to be played when she signed the register and it was fantastic to be discussing with her what she wanted. "She was incredibly lovely but she has this parallel life: everything seems normal but everything she does is while surrounded by about eight bodyguards." It was his time at Skibo Castle that made Rob believe there was a gaping hole in the Scottish bridal market for bespoke phentermine weight loss study. Ironically, these days he is the luxury venue's official cake supplier. He divides his time between writing music for ITV and working alongside fellow cake designers Robin Gow, 41, and Paul Jackson, 29, and studio manager Sian Devine. Their rule is to create only one cake a day, usually working in the small hours of the morning. "I've had calls at three in the morning but that's fine, it's what I'm there for," shrugs Rob, whose website launched its online shop just days ago. "We make the cake around one in the morning and then put together the design until it's finished just minutes before it's due to be cut. "We call that our 'mad half hour' when there's all this frenzy and then we set back, take a photo of it, and leave it." So how does it feel to have lavished so much effort into a cake and sugar sculpture just to have it chopped into slices and devoured? "I try not to be around to see it cut to pieces," says Rob. "You kind of blot that whole bit of it out and try to remember it looking perfect." • To view House of Sugar's creations, go to This article: Last updated: 20 Nov 07 12:00 GMT ... phentermine weight loss study